Spock is, according to their own blog, a search application for people. When you visit their URL, you are greeted by a simple interface which looks like your standard search engine, but shows a few search suggestions under three categories: In the news, People and Searches. From this standpoint, Spock behaves pretty much like a regular search engine. However,...

Spock, a kind of search engine for finding people, has just reached private beta, and I have received an invitation. It looks a little rough around the edges, I’m getting lots of errors, but since this is the first batch of invites, I guess it’s part of the game. Spock lets you search for people based on any criteria, and users are encouraged to...

Following up on my recent post reviewing a number of freely available, cross-platform GTD applications, I now present short reviews for a few mind-mapping tools. Again, the criteria were: The tools have to be free (at least as in beer), and The tools have to be cross-platform, either web-based or run in Windows and Linux. I’d love to be able to test...

I have been trying to get David Allen’s famous productivity method, GTD (Getting Things Done), to work for me, and in this effort I have tried numerous tools to help me along. Some of them rely on computers to run, others do not. However, since I spend most of my day in front of a computer, I found that a computer tool suits me best, since then I...