Spokeo
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | Saratoga, California (2005) |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California |
| Key people | Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, Eric Liang, Mike Daly |
| Industry | Software & Programming |
| Website | spokeo.com |
Spokeo is a hyper-aggregator that syndicates blogs, photos, and videos from social networks and web feeds.[1] Spokeo supports Bebo, Blogger, DeviantArt, Digg, Facebox, Flickr, Fotolog, Friendster, hi5, ImageStation, LiveJournal, MySpace, Photobucket, PictureTrail, Piczo, Webshots, Windows Live Spaces, Wretch, Xanga, Yahoo Video, and Youtube. [2]
Spokeo allows people to track their friends' latest content in a constantly updated news stream. In addition to social networks, Spokeo can work as a multimedia RSS reader that syndicates RSS and Atom feed. This means that people can also access Spokeo to keep up with news, web comics, podcasts, and other syndicated content.[3]
Spokeo is started by couple Stanford graduates in 2005. It is implemented in Ruby on Rails. [4]
[edit] Misconception
Spokeo is not a social network. It does not have messaging, blogging, custom profiles, or any social network features. Moreover, it syndicates only publicly available information. Facebook and other password-protected sites are not supported. [5]
[edit] References
- ^ GigaOm's Article on Hyper-Aggregator, November 18, 2006
- ^ Spokeo - Trillian for social networks, November 13, 2006
- ^ Spokeo Aggregates Social Networks And Blogs, November 29, 2006
- ^ Spokeo: Meta Social Networking, December 8, 2006
- ^ The RSS Blog on Spokeo, November 30, 2006
