Gleamd a threat to Mahalo and Spock?

Categories: Feedback, Personalization, Social MediaPosted on July 10th, 2007

I’m seeing Gleamd in a few twitter messages, and I’ve been invited twice in the last 12 hours. What’s gleamd? Its another repository of personal information about people. Here’s their FAQ description

Users write a short biography or find publicly available information on a person they find to be interesting and submit it to gleamd by clicking “add person” on the menu bar. If others also find that person to be interesting, they can vote on it. First they’ll make it to the recently popular que, then the top 3 if they’re really cool!

There’s a point based system for rewards too, apparently, someone thought it would be great to create one for me, Jeremiah Owyang.

Check out my review of Spock (and exclusive interview), and lots of folks are talking about Mahalo.

Above: Screenshot of my gleamd profile, talk about link bait huh?

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The real threat to these sites would be Facebook.No joke. Spock, however, does have some cool features that you wouldn’t find by going directly to a social network.

Posted by Damon Billian on July 10th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

All those applications should have hooks into Facebook.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 10th, 2007 at 2:42 pm

Jeremiah, do you have an invitation to Gleamd to spare?

I find those repositories amazing and scary at the same time. Seems that online personal reputation agencies will have lots of work to do…

Best, Zoe

Posted by Zoe Adamovicz on July 11th, 2007 at 1:34 am

Hi Jeremiah,

Agreed about the apps on Facebook;-)

Posted by Damon Billian on July 11th, 2007 at 5:36 am

Gleamd a threat to Mahalo and Spock?…

I’m seeing Gleamd in a few twitter messages, and I’ve been invited twice in the last 12 hours. What’s gleamd? Its another repository of personal information about people….

Posted by share.websitemagazine.com on July 11th, 2007 at 8:01 am

Alpha/beta test reviews are nice when they include screenshots.

I like almost all the many emerging socnets and Web 2.0 tools. I sign up for everything, and distribute invites via Pownce, Jaiku, and Twitter.

Gleamd is for making pages about Other People, that you are impressed with, you “shed light on” them, but I stupidly made my own page. I only have 4 votes so far. Depressed. Sick. Excuse me.

Anyway, Gleamd is therefore different from Spock in that sense. Also you vote on people. So Gleamd is like Spock + Digg.

I like them all. I am trying to get more heavily into my Freebase contributions, and Ning. Yahoo Pipes is quite difficult, and I have yet to hear of one that works well, but we’ll see.

New Super Bloggers are going multi, micro, mobile. That is the Future Web.

Posted by vaspers the grate aka steven e. streight on July 11th, 2007 at 11:40 am

Multi media.
Micro-blogging.
Mobile computing.

Also local search is going to be big as we migrate from blogs…to micro-blogs…to wearable glogs.

Posted by vaspers the grate aka steven e. streight on July 11th, 2007 at 11:42 am

Vaspers!

Wow, I’m glad to see you here, did I steal you from Loren? He’s a good guy.

If I ever login to Gleamd again I’ll vote for you

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 11th, 2007 at 3:12 pm

Gleamd People Bio Postings With Ratings…

Gleamd, a product created by pixelspread and design student Matthew McInerney, recently launched into private beta to offer a place to highlight, search and rate people. According to the site: Gleamd is a place to highlight interesting people doing int…

Posted by Somewhat Frank on July 16th, 2007 at 7:28 am