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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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Let them eat (old, crufty) cake (and lots of beer)
Food is important at Spokeo. Our highly-developed eating habits are at the core of Spokeo culture. Normally we don’t have any cake in the fridge, but Mike’s mom sent him quite a large double chocolate cake. ...
Who’s Spokey?
Spokey is our beloved hedgehog. We originally wanted a person to represent the Spokeo spirit, similar to what Tom Anderson did for MySpace. However, we are all a bit camera-shy, so we decided to create a cartoon character. One of our friends suggeste...
What does Spokeo mean?
A lot of our users and friends have asked this question, so I’ll tell the story here (thank you, Alfa, for reminding me to write about this). Spokeo sounds as random as other websites like Bebo, Meebo, Google, … That said, we didn’...
Feeding Time
One way I shirk work is by buying snacks for the company. That’s right, the lazier I get, the more snacks everyone has to eat, so my laziness isn’t such a bad thing :P. Feeding time is indeed glorious. I like to dump the snacks and watc...
Cool stuff that I track
I track in excess of 500 friends and blogs on Spokeo, so literally every minute, I got something new to read. Here I’d like to share what’s on my reading list: Flickrbabes (copy and paste “www.flickrbabes.com” into your Add...
X-Rated Dilemma
I’m the guy who fixes blogs, photos, videos, and music not display correctly. As it turns out, one of our users emailed that an X-rated blog he follows wasn’t displaying correctly. Do I help the user and improve our software despite the...
