Comments on: Spokeo Aggregates Social Networks And Blogs

By: Steave

Steave — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:01:36 +0000

Interesting post as for me. It would be great to read a bit more concerning this topic.

By: Power.com: For Social Networking Power Users

Power.com: For Social Networking Power Users — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:28:59 +0000

[...] of services that attempt to do some of the things Power.com is doing. See our posts on MyLifeBrand, Spokeo, Loopster and ProfileLinker. None of those sites were able to tap into the viral growth features [...]

By: Spotster » Blog Archive » Power.com: For Social Networking Power Users

Spotster » Blog Archive » Power.com: For Social Networking Power Users — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:11:02 +0000

By: Library clips :: Friendfeed : social filter conversations :: March :: 2008

Library clips :: Friendfeed : social filter conversations :: March :: 2008 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:14:01 +0000

[...] on the sidebar ie. a list of icons of all the services your friends use…more easier like Spokeo. I’d like this for me as well, but the icon list representing all the services I use will [...]

By: Ajax Girl » Blog Archive » MyLifeBrand Aggregates Social Networking Sites

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:08:04 +0000

[...] social networks is real and any heavy Web 2.0 site user will understand the problem. We covered Spokeo in November 06 and a number of similar services [...]

By: stress

stress — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:09:13 +0000

wonderfull!!!!!!!

By: depressione

depressione — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:08:27 +0000

really great

By: mersenne

mersenne — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:19:34 +0000

well, i have been searching for some sort of social network aggregator something that i can use to see all my friends on different networks together, a valuable step to the direction of managing an online network of friends. i guess spokeo is the best because it actually works decently. i don’t know about the technical details, the design is not so good, but not bad, however i am appalled to see that some people can’t find a reason for an application like this, well i’m sure you’ll get the idea in a year or so folks, in the mean time, thanks for the effort spokeo.

By: ClintJCL

ClintJCL — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:27:52 +0000

This isn’t what I want. What I want is a tool that will REPOST my blog to any site I choose: Myspace, livejournal, okcupid, etc. I want my blog to appear in 4 or 5 places so different people in different commmunities will read it.

By: kip

kip — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:46:56 +0000

nathan .. i totaly agree with you…spokeo =it’s as though I got stuck in a teenage gossip magazine

By: joe

joe — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:37:59 +0000

try this>>
www. netvibes.com

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » SimplyHeadlines Is About Five Years Too Late

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:31:08 +0000

[...] Also, there is no RSS feeder for your preferred news, and, as far as I can tell, there are no blogs serving up news to SimplyHeadlines. What year is this again!? I’d rather use Spokeo, the site I reviewed last week, than this antiquated email service. Maybe this would have been revolutionary five or ten years ago but in the year 2006 it just kind of puzzles me. SimplyHeadlines Sphere It [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:42:50 +0000

I commend my fellow commentators for making it to the homepage. I couldn’t get past the name. I know how hard it is to name a new company – finding available domains composed of real words is expensive hence the current trend of “unique” names. But, seems odd spokeo for a soical networking company given that Spoke.com and Spock.com are in the same general category.

By: TechCrunch en français

TechCrunch en français — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:29:42 +0000

Spokeo agrège blogs et réseaux sociaux..enfin presque…

Les fondateurs de Spokeo veulent faire de leur service votre page de démarrage. Ils veulent vous donner accès aux feeds de vos blogs préférés, Les dernières mises à jour de MySpace, les dernières vidéos de YouTube et les photos de vos amis tou…

By: Jason YC

Jason YC — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:01:57 +0000

I use it as a RSS reader everyday and check my friend’s photo sometimes, thanks Spokeo, it grabs the news and photos as soon as the news and photos got updated. No more switching back and forth from News website and Flickr.

By: Stefanos Karagos

Stefanos Karagos — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:48:57 +0000

A new start page?
i suppose that you are kidding

Bad design, lack of interesting content…

By: sMoRTy71

sMoRTy71 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:42:38 +0000

This isn’t the only site in this space. Profilactic.com is launching its beta on December 8th. It, too, is a digital life aggregator; however, it takes a different approach than both Spokeo and Iceflake.

I’ve signed up and tested both Spokeo anbd Iceflake and I much prefer Profilactic.

It is:
1. Easier to setup and get started using
2. More comprehensive — it will support about 30 sites at launch with another dozen or so added in the first week live
3. More feature-rich — you will be able to update all of your online profiles, aggregate all of the content you create online, bookmark other content about you, aggregate all of your friends’ content, take your Profilactic content with you via RSS and HTML badges.

Of course, I am totally biased.

Check out Profilactic.com:
http://www.profilactic.com
http://www.prof...actic.com/blog/

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:16:38 +0000

Nifty entry, but this area is somewhat saturated right now. None of them have stood out enough for me to make them part of my “online life.”

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:52:23 +0000

Good post, Natali. I tried to add you as a friend on MySpace (I’m in SF too) but your profile is private, probably a good idea.

Regardless, you’re a great addition to the TC team.

By: Mark Seremet

Mark Seremet — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:09:25 +0000

I think this lacks any true innovation. That’s the basic problem these days…

By: Jessup

Jessup — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:03:04 +0000

anonymouse; You’re right! TasteCrunchy should only highlight elite startups and web apps. Forget about any new startup that isn’t heavily funded or, by gosh, has been started by young’uns with a dream.

Or, better yet, these kids shouldn’t start up companies to begin with. They’re wasting their time if it isn’t “the next big idea”.

/end sarcasm

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:59:18 +0000

Looks great.

By: Harrison Tang

Harrison Tang — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:45:51 +0000

Thanks for everyone’s comments! Some categorize Spokeo as a start-page, and some see it as a social network. There seems to be some confusion about what Spokeo is, and that’s expected because Spokeo is in a category of its own.

Spokeo is not a start-page (although technically it is) because its content focuses on friends, rather than generic news. The target audience is different, so the design directions are not the same.

Spokeo is definitely not a social network because there is no social interaction built-in. You cannot message another person, or build / customize your profile, or write a post. You can only view the contents, and every article title links back to the original.

So if you really want a comparison, I would say Spokeo is Google News for social networks. Our goal is to organize information in a coherent fashion so that people can consume more content. More content consumption means more page views, benefiting the blogosphere as a whole.

By: Avia

Avia — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:49:00 +0000

such a cool website that can save a lot of time spent on social net work

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:46:54 +0000

and techcrunch’s decline continues…why not just spin off “CustomizedStartPageCrunch” so all the 22-year-olds with average PHP skills and a copy of photoshop can showcase their “internet startup” and leverage the long tail? then they can highlight it on their resume when 6 months later their “startup” has faded off the map and they’re begging for an ibanking job.