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Spokeo tracks friends across different social networks. This blog talks about our experience in building Spokeo from the grounds up, and our thoughts on the social network market.
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Scheduled Downtime on 10/14
We are going to upgrade our servers and back-end infrastructure at midnight of 10/14/2009. If everything goes all right, we should be back up within 1 hour around 1am PST. Thank you for your patience and support!...
Spokeo 3.0 is Here!
The all-new Spokeo 3.0 is finally here. Check out our new homepage: We have added three new Business editions to better serve our business customers. We have also revamped and upgraded our old HR product to the new Recruiting edition....
New Spokeo Search Is Coming
The new Spokeo people search is coming in three weeks. We’ve been working on the Spokeo 3.0 for couple months already, and now we are finally ready to release the first wave of new changes. The above is an exclusive preview of the n...
Website Down this Morning
Spokeo.com was down from 1:30am to approximately 7:00am this Saturday morning because our colocation center experienced an unexpected power outage. All the system is now back up, but we are still working on the kinks to make sure nothing goes w...
Goodbye to Themes
This morning, we officially ended our support for themes and skins. We first introduced the theme / personalization feature on August 27, 2007, and we had been slowly adding new designs over the last one and a half years. Below are the fi...
Spokeo’s New People Search Interface in Works
For the past year, we have been focusing on scaling and increasing Spokeo’s back-end performance. These technical improvements definitely don’t sound or look sexy since normal users cannot tell if anything has been changed. Ho...
Spokeo is the 50th Most Searched Term
Today, Spokeo ranks as the 50th most searched term in the world based on Google Trends statistics and salmonbones report. Below is the Top 50 Rankings on March 12, 2009. 1. kelly clarkson pregnant 2. diggna...
Update on the Move
Last Thursday afternoon, we made the biggest change in our infrastructure and moved all our servers to a new data center. After 12 hours of continuous work, we have successfully pushed Spokeo back online. While this transition looks smoot...
Scheduled Downtime this Thursday, 1/22/2009
We are moving! We have outgrown our current data center, so we are moving our servers to a new location on Thursday, 1/22/2009. Spokeo.com will be offline for several hours while we move, so please bear with us while we find a better home...
Paypal Payment Processor Issues
As you might have noticed, we use Paypal for our payment processor. What does this mean? It means that Paypal handles all our transactions and credit card processing. When you enter your credit card to buy a Spokeo premium account, ...
Spokeo is down due to data center’s power outage
Spokeo has been down since 4am PST this morning due to the power outage at our data center. This power outage has affected many sites, and our data center provider is fixing this problem right now. Spokeo should be back online this mornin...
Recent unplanned downtime
If you’ve been trying to check Spokeo or our blog recently, you may have been told that it was down. Unfortunately, this weekend, our ISP has been having a lot of technical issues which directly affected us. We’re sorry for th...
Username Search
We haven’t announced a lot of new features lately, but that does not mean we’ve stopped innovating. We upgrade our system regularly to improve our performance , which explains why the service is down every two weeks. Most of t...
Server maintenance
We are currently undergoing some server maintenance as of 10pm PDT, June 17. We apologize for the inconvenience. We expect to be back online in a few hours....
Scheduled maintenance
Spokeo will be undergoing server maintenance between Saturday, June 7 00:00 - 12:00 UTC. In the US, that means Friday evening, June 6 starting at 5pm PDT. During this time, the Spokeo website will be down and unusable, as we will be performing ...
Wall Street Journal + Daily Herald
We got onto Wall Street Journal and Daily Herald earlier this week. Our traffic has surged and all our machines are under a lot of strain. For the past two days, we have processed more than a million searches, and we have turned away tens...
Paypal system maintenance last night
We got some feedback from a few users about not being able to access their premium accounts immediately after the payment. After an hour of investigation, we’ve found that Paypal was undergoing some system maintenance from around 12...
Server maintenance
Spokeo will be under going a big migration to new servers today from 13:00 PDT to 15:00 PDT. We finally have all our servers set up and we’ll be working hard to get them online for you. We’re sorry for the inconvenience in the...
Backend Overhaul Next Week
We’ve accumulated over 6M people’s data over the past few months, and this poses a huge engineering problem. Our site has become slower and slower due to the data overload, and there’s not much more that we can do with our exi...
Spokeo puts on new pants
Somtimes it’s hard to wear the same clothes day after day - you just get tired of them. So awhile back we hired a new designer to make us some fancy new pants. We’re proud to say that our new threads are complete. Kudos to you, Raphael...
Connect with your friends
Our goal here at Spokeo is to create the most effective tool for helping people connect with their friends. With social networks and photo/video content sites becoming more and more popular every day, it’s becoming way too difficult to keep up ...
