Spokeo

One of the misconceptions that people have about Spokeo is that it is just a social networking site and provides features like blogging, customization of profiles, messaging and other. But the truth lies in the fact that it 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. There are various sites and services that are supported by Spokeo and some of them are- You tube, Amazon, Flickr, Myspace, Hi5, Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, Frienster, Blogger, etc. In normal web accounts like G-mail or Yahoo-mail, whenever an email is sent by a person to other, the contact of the former person is automatically added up in the contact list of the latter person, making the list too lengthy to manage. With Contact ingestion feature of Spokeo the user can manage the friends list and groups by deleting the ones that are not so important. 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. 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. Currently Spokeo is credited with having a loyal user base which continues to grow at an appreciable rate. The website is pretty useful and beneficial for users who have large friends base. It keeps tracking all the contacts across 41 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. The color scheme of the website is great and it also provides some of the reviews from various newspapers and websites flashing one by one at the bottom of the web page. Spokeo gives the users with a smooth navigation speed. 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 41 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. Any credit card details are not required for registration. 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. 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.