One of the things I didn't expect when I joined Facebook recently was to hear from some friends I had gone to high school with, back in the dark ages, it made me think about finding some of them that are not on social network sites. Part of what I do as a blogger on this site and my local political one is to search out information on people. There are quite a few different services out there where you can do a free people search that I use on a regular basis as one of my online searching tools.
I like using LookupWho.com, because it is free and doesn't pretend to be free like some of the services out there, who pretend to be free, but if you really want the information there is a charge. The only downside to LookupWho.com is that their data base is not huge at this point, as an example, I couldn't find myself using their service. A recommended hint is to use that person's last name only with the City and the State before entering a first and last name. This is especially important if they use a shortened version of their name or a nickname, as in the case of someone named James who uses Jim or vice versa.
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Thursday, October 02, 2008
Saturday, October 20, 2007
New way to search for information on people...
When I first read about Spock and how you can search for information on people and politicians in certain categories, one example would be Presidential candidates who are Pro-Choice, it sounded like an interesting website to check out. They even offer the ability to put a widget on your site for a search:
I'm far from famous but I wondered what would happen when I searched me, so that's what I did, and then I created a profile which took only a few moments to create. I then discovered that there was the ability to add a mini version of my Spock.com profile on any of my blogs that I wanted to.
You also have the ability to add your Linked in profile and search out friends. That seems to be a fun additional benefit of using Spock, though for me the main reason would be to have another resource to find out information on public officials/candidates. You can search by name or by tag, and as with the example above if you wanted to search in tags for "Presidential candidates democrat" using Spock.com you'd find a list of 41 names and also be able to add a widget for that particular search term as well.
Since promoting blogging is something that I'm really into, if I wanted to display a widget of Ohio bloggers on my sidebar, it would be possible to highlight all of those within Spock who are tagged "Ohio blogger". I saw some familiar faces which was fun and a few new people which was informative.
I do recommend checking out Spock.com to find information on the famous and to find information on the not so famous.
:-)
I'm far from famous but I wondered what would happen when I searched me, so that's what I did, and then I created a profile which took only a few moments to create. I then discovered that there was the ability to add a mini version of my Spock.com profile on any of my blogs that I wanted to.
You also have the ability to add your Linked in profile and search out friends. That seems to be a fun additional benefit of using Spock, though for me the main reason would be to have another resource to find out information on public officials/candidates. You can search by name or by tag, and as with the example above if you wanted to search in tags for "Presidential candidates democrat" using Spock.com you'd find a list of 41 names and also be able to add a widget for that particular search term as well.
Since promoting blogging is something that I'm really into, if I wanted to display a widget of Ohio bloggers on my sidebar, it would be possible to highlight all of those within Spock who are tagged "Ohio blogger". I saw some familiar faces which was fun and a few new people which was informative.
I do recommend checking out Spock.com to find information on the famous and to find information on the not so famous.
:-)