Spokeo
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | Saratoga, California (2006) |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California |
| Key people | Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, Eric Liang, Mike Daly |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Products | Spokeo People Search |
| Website | Spokeo People Search |
Spokeo is a social-network-based people search service. Unlike traditional people search services that search for one person at a time, Spokeo searches a group of people, usually those that contained within a user's webmail address book. Spokeo looks for social network accounts for each person by performing deep Web searches across over 40 such networks,[1][2] including Bebo, Blogger, DailyMotion, DeviantArt, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Fotolog, Friendster, HI5, ImageStation, Imeem, Last.fm, LiveJournal, MySpace, Netlog, Photobucket, Vox, Webshots, Windows Live Spaces, Wretch, Xanga, Yahoo Video, and YouTube.[3]
Spokeo was founded in 2006 by Stanford University graduates. It is implemented in Ruby on Rails.[4]
Spokeo is not a social network, and it does not support any social network features. It syndicates only publicly available information,[5] although the information that it aggregates may not be commonly known to be public.[6]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Friends Under The Microscope, January 28, 2008
- ^ New site feeds off of other Web sites, January 31, 2008
- ^ Spokeo 2.0: A Feed Reader For Your Friends, December 10, 2007
- ^ Spokeo: Meta Social Networking, December 8, 2006
- ^ The RSS Blog on Spokeo, November 30, 2006
- ^ New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends, May 13, 2008
