Well, actually, Delver saves you from having to delve too deeply if you just want a way into social networks without having to sign up for each: It lets you search the personal information, posts, and media people have put online in all of these ever more numerous outlets. We met with Delver's CEO, Liad Agmon, today to give the social search service, still in public alpha, a gander.
More and more information is being posted by your friends and acquaintances in short nuggets (or, what Agmon called "microcontributions") on social networks like MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn. (And as Liad so aptly put it, search on social networks "sucks.")
These combined with all the other feeds into which your pals are placing digital tidbits--Flickr, Twitter, Digg, blogs--are fair game for Delver's crawler. One of the biggest repositories of personal data, Facebook, is a tougher nut to crack, though apps (one of which Delver will be offering ) and the upcoming Facebook Connect should make its data more accessible by services like Delver.
When you first go to enter a query in Delver, you're asked to identify yourself, by entering a name or email. Shucks, I'd hoped to be able to search right away, but after all, its about searching for contributions from and about your acquaintances. Sadly, when I entered my email address for this gig, it couldn't find me. But by my name alone it found a couple of entries, though a bit outdated.
You can then amplify your profile by entering a workplace, location, schools, and email address. Another option here is to add your social network accounts ...
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