Spock sign-up flow demonstrates how to scare users away... (by Jeremy Zawodny): "I got an invitation to yet another online service that I hadn't heard of today: Spock. Their about page says:

Spock is the online leader in personal search, helping users find and discover people. With over one hundred million people already indexed and millions added every day, Spock is building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine.

Putting aside the amusing claim of a beta service that most people have never heard of being 'the online leader', their sign-up flow is kind of spooky. I just attempted to go through it and gave up at step #2.

That's right. They want me to provide my username and password for the on-line services that may contain some of my most sensitive information, including: Gmail, Plaxo, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL.

I can't think of a very polite way to say "no fucking way", so I won't even try. There wasn't a button for that."

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