I was looking for an old friend, and found a not so comprehensive list of it on this page. (Note: not so comprehensive, meaning, I don’t know almost everyone listed there, and the ones I knew are very few; 4 of them on the list)

I was quite happy with the list, a bunch of names came up, and the one that I looked for appeared on the list. It was refreshing to find something like this. I do however, know someone who’s got a more comprehensive list of people who are our peers at the time, but of course, the list on namedatabase.com covers a wide gamut of people than what my friend has. My friend however, does not have the one I was looking for.

The namedatabase site however, is a very annoying site to use. It tries to bug you to pony up money (at least $12) in order to get you to contact that one person whom I have no idea if the person have changed the email address and have forgotten about the name database altogether.

This is so unlike LinkedIn that allows you to not only give more details about yourself, it does not require you to pay up money to get connected to other people you know in your personal space.

If you don’t want to pay, you end up needing about 24 email addresses, 24 innocent people to send spam they might not need. Evil, right down to the core. I really wonder if the database is used to sell off the email addresses for profit.

Anyway, I managed to get a hold of the person I’m looking for, and I am happy for that. We had a good IM chat session.

The irony of it though, we knew a mutual friend who had the contact info I needed, whom I had no idea would be the right person to ask. If only we have something like LinkedIn to connect the dots for us.

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