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Spokeo is a social-network based people search service. Unlike traditional people search services that search one person at a time, Spokeo searches a group of people at a time - usually those that contained within your webmail address book. Spokeo looks for social network accounts for each person 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. Spokeo has the design and feel of a social Web 2.0 property, but retains the core functionality of a people search engine. It syndicates only publicly available information, although the information that it aggregates may not be commonly known to be public.

See also

• List of social networking websites

References

1. Friends Under The Microscope, January 28, 2008
2. New site feeds off of other Web sites, January 31, 2008
3. Spokeo 2.0: A Feed Reader For Your Friends, December 10, 2007
4. Spokeo: Meta Social Networking, December 8, 2006
5. The RSS Blog on Spokeo, November 30, 2006
6. New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends, May 13, 2008

External links

• Official site

• Social search
• Web syndication
• RSS
• Atom
• Web 2.0
• Internet properties established in 2006