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| key_people = Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, Eric Liang, Mike Daly | | key_people = Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, Eric Liang, Mike Daly | | ||
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| '''Spokeo''' is a hyper-] that |
'''Spokeo''' is a hyper-] that discovers a user's friends' ] accounts by performing deep Web searches across over 40 such networks,<ref>, January 28, 2008</ref> including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref>, December 10, 2007</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | Spokeo was founded in 2006 by ] graduates. It is implemented in ].<ref>, December 8, 2006</ref> | ||
| Spokeo first finds your friends' accounts on all the major social networks. It then organizes this information into an IM-style buddy list. This aggregation of services into a buddy list has drawn comparisons of Spokeo to Trillian. | |||
| ⚫ | Spokeo is not a ], and it does not support any social network features. It syndicates only publicly available information,<ref>, November 30, 2006</ref> although the information that it aggregates may not be commonly known to be public.<ref>, May 13, 2008</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | Spokeo was founded by Stanford |
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==See also== | ||
| ⚫ | * ] | ||
| Spokeo is not a ]. It does not support messaging, blogging, custom profiles, or any social network features. Moreover, it syndicates only publicly available information. Spokeo does not break privacy barriers to show you what content you do not have access to. <ref>, November 30, 2006</ref> | |||
| == Controversy == | |||
| ⚫ | Spokeo |
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| == References == | == References == | ||
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==External links== | ||
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | Saratoga, California (2006) |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California |
| Key people | Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, Eric Liang, Mike Daly |
| Website | spokeo.com |
Spokeo is a hyper-aggregator that discovers a user's friends' social network accounts by performing deep Web searches across over 40 such networks, 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.
Spokeo was founded in 2006 by Stanford University graduates. It is implemented in Ruby on Rails.
Spokeo is not a social network, and it does not support any social network features. It syndicates only publicly available information, although the information that it aggregates may not be commonly known to be public.
See also
References
- Friends Under The Microscope, January 28, 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