- Spokeo
Infobox_Company
company_name = Spokeo
company_
company_type = Private
foundation =Saratoga, California (2006 )
location =Mountain View, California
key_people = Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, Eric Liang, Mike Daly
products = Spokeo People Search
industry =Computer software
homepage = [http://www.spokeo.com 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, [ [http://www.newsweek.com/id/96366 Friends Under The Microscope] , January 28, 2008] [ [http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/technology&id=5928248 New site feeds off of other Web sites] , January 31, 2008] includingBebo ,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 , andYouTube . [ [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/spokeo-20-a-feed-reader-for-your-friends Spokeo 2.0: A Feed Reader For Your Friends] , December 10, 2007]Spokeo was founded in 2006 by
Stanford University graduates. It is implemented inRuby on Rails . [ [http://www.ajax-blog.com/spokeo-meta-social-networking.html Spokeo: Meta Social Networking] , December 8, 2006]Spokeo is not a
social network , and it does not support any social network features. It syndicates only publicly available information, [ [http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20061129191607 The RSS Blog on Spokeo] , November 30, 2006] although the information that it aggregates may not be commonly known to be public. [ [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121063460767286631.html New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends] , May 13, 2008]ee also
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List of social networking websites References
External links
* [http://www.spokeo.com/ Official site]
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