When you enter Spokeo for the first time, you immediately notice the program slogan:
“Want to see something juicy? Spokeo searches deep within 48 major social networks to find truly mouth-watering news about friends and coworkers”. While that might be attractive for some visitors, there is definitely not too pretty slogan for me. However, let’s not look too close on the façade, but review what this site can do for you, and how it can enhance your social presence on the Web.
Mashable.com called Spokeo a simplest of the social networks aggregators today. It is useful for the Internet fans, trying to cover all bases in the multi-sites virtual presence and bring all the contacts together under one single “roof”.
What can you use the application for?
Spokeo is a
powerful online application that is designed for syndication of information available publicly across the Internet. In other words it is a social aggregator that allows the users to aggregate photos, videos and blogs available on the web. It often happens that the people/friends of the same group use different online services as per their liking and preferences and it is very difficult for them to aggregate themselves at one common place and they keep hovering around looking and searching about what their friends are doing. Spokeo aids users to maintain separate profiles of all friends and it automatically scoops important information from all the contacts (without letting them know that someone is keeping an eye on their activities). Spokeo is an important technique to manage all information of the user under one roof and let him decide what information is to be provided to others and what not. One of the main features of Spokeo is 'recommend', when any person recommends a message or post on the website it will automatically spread through and show on the home pages of everybody in the contact list.
What is the history of the application?
It was started by Harrison Tang and three other Stanford graduates in the year 2006 with a view to provide a helpful interface to the users if they are unable to keep up with their friends.
What are the differences to other applications?
The website is pretty useful and beneficial for users who have large friends base. It keeps tracking all the contacts across 48 social sites and concurrently updates the action. With its features like Recommend and Contact Ingestion, Spokeo has tried its level best to eliminate the deficiencies and fill-up the loopholes of other service across the web.
How does the registration process work?
The user can easily join Spokeo service by just providing the e-mail and passwords of AOL, Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail accounts and in just 5 minutes the user can follow up his/her friends on 48 social networks. And in case a person doesn't have the e-mail he/she has the option to create it at the same place itself. No credit card details are required for registration.
What does it cost to use the application?
Getting registered with Spokeo is free and easy. The site is funded by 'Angel Investors'. Spokeo also provides for advertisements with the concept of 'sponsored insertion' in which the advertiser is allowed to specify the blog that he wants to promote.
Who would you recommend the application to?
Spokeo is a social aggregator and is beneficial for such users who remain wired up on the Internet all day long and have a big bunch of friends across the web. It is likely that they face difficulties in tracking them and updating their actions and activities on numerous sites. So this site can be recommended to the persons who wish to enlarge and maintain their communities across the web.
Control your privacy
Spokeo respects the privacy policies of your social networks. Your content can only be read in Spokeo by the same people allowed to read it in your network.
Currently supported networks
- 43 Things
- Amazon
- Bebo
- BizShark
- Blogger
- Buzznet
- dailymotion
- deviantART
- Digg
- Facebook
- Flickr
- Flickr Group
- Flixster
- Fotolog
- Friendster
- Goodreads
- Hi5
- iLike
- imeem
- Last.fm
- LinkedIn
- LiveJournal
- Multiply
- MySpace
- Netlog
- Pandora
- PhotoBucket
- Picasa
- PictureTrail
- Slide
- Stumbleupon
- Tagged
- Target
- Twitter
- Upcoming
- Veoh
- Vox
- Web Results
- WebShots
- Windows Live Spaces
- Wretch
- Xanga
- Yelp
- YouTube
You can access and instantly sign in for the Spokeo membership at
http://www.spokeo.com/
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