Mar 27 2008
Online stalk everyone with Spokeo
Spokeo is an amazing website/online app thingie that imports your contact lists from your email, webmail and social network accounts and creates a comprehensive list of what everyone you've ever been in contact with is up to. My God, for a quiet, lonely hermit, my life is quite an open book online.
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Ah! That's why I got this mysterious email from Spokeo: 'People are searching for you on Spokeo' with a list of places I registered online with my gmail.
Mystery solved!
Ahhh, I got that email too. Seems a bit invasive. I'm not happy they are trolling for my email address without my consent either.
I found out about it through the same email. All the information it finds is out in the public and we put it out there ourselves. I assume that anyone could find the same information by plugging someone's email address in to Google. Spokeo just streamlines the process.
I'm tired of this trend of sites asking you to give them your email and your email password so they can harmlessly have access to specific information…
btw, I'm assuming I emailed you once before in the past and that's why today I received my first notification email from spokeo(spokeo has been around since 2006 I subsequently learned from googling) that I'd been searched by someone and that I had better do something about it by signing in and setting some preferences through their service if I don't like it. PFFFTTT!!!
Hey, I have a random twitter question: how do you embed the twitter device on wordpress without your username showing up on every update?
Rich,
You can also track all of us in real-time with a cool new app called woopra and it is free.
This GeekBrief.tv episode shows a demo and an interview with the developers. If everyone starts using woopra, I might just stop using the internet. Naaah, I am addicted.
I may sign up on Spokeo. You wrote this at the perfect time. I was reading an article from digg.com that discussed the death of the social bookmarking trend. At first, I found this to be very unlikely as everyone I know is either all over mySpace or Facebook; but, when I read on, I can't help but think they are right.
It basically said that, though the States haven't seen this trend yet, most countries with any countable England-speaking population are now falling away from the SN trend: England, Germany, France, etc. Slowly, I have noticed the lack of Europeans from MySpace, though they're still all over Facebook.
I'm curious, what's it look like in Japan in the social networking world right now? I understand, from Ritsuko (friend, 24, Yokohama), that "mixi" is very popular, but as I can't read Japanese, I'm at a loss to have a look to see how affective the site is.
The article basically summed things up with saying: most people are simply using their cellphones more rather than to rely on SN sites. Sites like twitter do everything they'd need via web, and then they have SMS msging and cheap call minutes. These factors are facilitating the death of the social networking explosion.. so says the article. I'm not 100% in agreement yet
…wow, this is the longest post comment of all time! sorry -_-
Charlie's last blog post..Tips, anyone? Tips? Please? [edit]
Good god man! You have been busy online. I would have to devote a whole evening to catch up on everything. I saw your name with the number 585 next to it where everyone else had as high as the twenties and as low as no number at all.
New post! New post! (I'm drunk.) Rich, post more often or come drink with me more often (I'd actually prefer the latter, as you're a good guy.)
Until then. . . New post!