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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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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 ...
The Web as the social network
At this year’s CES, Yahoo announced their plans for Yahoo! Mail to become a central hub for your social activity. This new Yahoo! Mail (called Yahoo! Life) will treat email addresses as social profiles, and friendships will be based on how oft...
Why we don’t require friend requests
Last Friday, we got onto Guy Kawasaki’s blog and stirred up quite a debate. Some commentators dislike reading anonymously on Spokeo because they feel like they are spying on their friends. They prefer to have their friends approve their acces...
Thoughts on Techcrunch’s mention of Spokeo
Techcrunch (a very influential Tech blog) profiled FriendFeed today and mentioned Spokeo as a competitor. I am not sure what FriendFeed does since it is still in private beta. I would however, like to clarify Spokeo’s value proposition as a f...
Building user trust
I was reading how some websites (most recently Quechup) mishandle their user privacy. As you know, many social networks induce users to invite their friends en-mass, which is known as “viral marketing.” Some unethical sites take this tact...
Why use Spokeo when I got MySpace or LiveJournal?
Do you use hand towels for toilet paper? (Why am I making bad analogies like Ray did here?) You probably don’t because hand towels are better suited for drying your hands than … you know what. Even though both are made of paper, they a...
Spokeo: Aggregator? DLA? Reader?
You all know how Spokeo works, but some of you still ask “What exactly is Spokeo?” Let me cycle through some common terms. Aggregator An aggregator is a very broad class of websites. Any website that pulls information from more than one...
A Simpler Way to Connect with Friends
Most of us probably know how to use MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, and other social networks very well. However, does it mean that those interfaces are intuitive and optimal? When you first signed on those sites, have you ever had the experience of n...
Fewer Features?
Some people asked me if the new Spokeo got fewer features than before. Well, I think “less cluttered” is a better description. Spokeo is an aggregation tool, not a social network. Adding social features to an aggregator is like adding v...
