Spokeo: is this still in beta? (site review)

[redbird]

Spokeo is, as far as I can tell, an attempt to aggregate a variety of social networking sites, including Myspace, Xanga, and Flickr, and lots of RSS feeds. Note that LiveJournal isn't one of the choices, though it let me load an RSS feed from someone's LiveJournal, and showed me their default userpic when I'd done so.

It describes itself as being part of Web2.0; I hope the lack of any sort of FAQs or how-tos isn't typical of Web 2.0. Looking at the "featured users" page got me a perfectly nice BBC News RSS feed, which would probably be more appealing if I didn't have the BC headlines as one of the clickable choices at the top of Firefox.

There seems to be a lot of content in what's either Chinese or Japanese; someone who can read those languages might have more fun here. At the moment, though, it looks like a solution in search of a problem: I don't want to read all my Web stuff on one site, and a lot of why people use things like LJ and MySpace is to have some control over who can see their content.

(If you want to check it out, they're at www.spokeo.com, and will ask for an email address to register.)

Comments

[mooliebrity.livejournal.com]

Actually, Spokeo does import LiveJournal, it just doesn't appear to be listed right now. I know this, because it was able to import all my friends just from me entering my user name.

I think you'll find the FAQ at the bottom of the page. ;)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard back from you about the soup set, so I thought I'd ask here.

[redbird]

Mea culpa. cattitude and I are still trying to figure out whether we'd actually use it. I'll check with him tonight.