Jared Kim’s Weblog

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Hey all,

The Associated Press wrote an article about Stalkerati and social networks earlier this week and it had a lot of quotes from me. It got syndicated to places like NY Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, and many many others. I’ve been getting a ton of e-mail regarding Stalkerati, so I just want to write a blog post that answers a few common questions.

• Stalkerati was a fun project that I made last year in May 2006. I pretty much stopped working on it by the end of June 2006 because I could not do searches on MySpace or Facebook after they implemented certain changes to their respective sites. However, even though I stopped working on Stalkerati in May 2006, I would still get sporadic interview requests from reporters every 1-2 months.

• Yes, I could have written a web crawler/spider to make it work on MySpace and Facebook, but I felt like it wasn’t really worth it. I don’t believe you can build a company that piggyback’s on another company’s data unless their is a formal way of doing it via an API or something. However, I consider Widgets & slideshow services a total different thing due to the fact they are not relying on user data that belongs to other companies. Therefore, they still have a stable market (unless MySpace wants to block them).
• I am no longer actively working on Stalkerati as of June 2006 (wow its been a year:). In January of 2007 I launched Yaqqer.com while in my freshmen year of college at UC Berkeley. In March 2007, I left UC Berkeley to start my 3rd company. I can’t say too much about what my newest company is going to do, but I can tell you that if you play video games on your PC, you’re going to (hopefully) like it a lot I have some awesome and experienced people working with me on this one, so I’m pretty excited.
• Yea, I know Stalkerati doesn’t work on Safari. If I remember correctly, it’s because Stalkerati uses the onLoad event on its iframes, and Safari does not support that event.

Hopefully that answers some questions. If you still have questions or just want to say hi, you can use the contact form on my About page.

I think every household should have a Nintendo Wii. I just got mine today and it’s been fun, even though I’m just playing alone. I played it once before with a couple of people and that was REALLY fun! It’s a great console for families and group events. People who don’t even play games will enjoy games like Wii Sports.

Sorry for the Sepia on the last two. It’s for Sepia Fight Club

They basically just matched me to every celebrity Asian guy they had in their database. I find it funny it says I look most like Joi Ito.

April 18, 2007: Filed my papers with my adviser at UC Berkeley to officially take my leave of absence.

April 20, 2007:  Moved all my stuff from my tiny dorm room in Berkeley to a pretty nice place in the SoMA district of San Francisco. I used to live in SoMA before going off to college, so really I’m moving “back” to SF.

Rest of 2007: ???

2008 and Beyond: PROFIT!!!

I’m taking a leave of absence to pursue an idea that I’ve had in my mind for awhile. I started thinking about it seriously about 2 months ago, but the real work began about a month ago. I can’t say too much about it right now, but things are going very well. Expect some exciting announcements sometime soon

Just had my interview with TheCulturalConnect go live yesterday. Check it out!

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

Hurray!

From Mark Cuban’s blog: “For those who don’t know. Genarlow Wilson was sentenced to 10 years in jail for doing something every 17 year old I knew, including me, tried to do.”

As an 18 year old all I can say is, damn straight.

For more info on the Genarlow Wilson story, check out ESPN.

Is there a reason why an intro CompSci class would be taught in Scheme? The course I’m taking right now is…

Scheme makes me want to puke. When I go back to PHP after coding in Scheme, I feel like I’m in heaven because everything is so clear.