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0 Sites Used at San Diego Venture Group Speech

These are the sites and applications that I used in today’s San Diego Venture Group speech about using social media as a marketing tool. Making...

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0 Website Down this Morning

Spokeo.com was down from 1:30am to approximately 7:00am this Saturday morning because our colocation center experienced an unexpected power outage....

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: May 9, 2009
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0 Goodbye to Themes

This morning, we officially ended our support for themes and skins.  We first introduced the theme / personalization feature on August 27, 2007, and...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: May 4, 2009
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0 Spokeo’s New People Search Interface in Works

For the past year, we have been focusing on scaling and increasing Spokeo’s back-end performance.  These technical improvements definitely don’t sound...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Apr 20, 2009
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0 We just got on MSN!

We just got on the MSN front page couple hours ago.  As expected, hundred of thousands of people are flocking to Spokeo right now, and the incoming...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 30, 2009
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0 Spokeo is the 50th Most Searched Term

Today, Spokeo ranks as the 50th most searched term in the world based on Google Trends statistics and salmonbones report.  Below is the Top 50...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 12, 2009
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0 Update on the Move

Last Thursday afternoon, we made the biggest change in our infrastructure and moved all our servers to a new data center.  After 12 hours of...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Jan 27, 2009
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0 Scheduled Downtime this Thursday, 1/22/2009

We are moving!  We have outgrown our current data center, so we are moving our servers to a new location on Thursday, 1/22/2009.  Spokeo.com will be...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Jan 19, 2009
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0 Merry Christmas!

Want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!  - Spokeo Team.

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Dec 25, 2008
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0 Paypal Payment Processor Issues

As you might have noticed, we use Paypal for our payment processor.  What does this mean?  It means that Paypal handles all our transactions and...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Nov 9, 2008
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2 People Search Site 123people Goes International

123people is a people search engine that has been in private beta since February of this year. Originally covering only Europe, the company is...

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0 Vlogger Insomniacs to Battle for Most Sleeplessness. Again.

There are only a select number of instances when I consider it appealing to watch live video over the Web, such as news streams from sources like CNN...

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0 Ad Model vs. Premium Model

As most of you would agree, the Web 2.0 era is long over.  Web 2.0 was categorized by ad-based business models.  Everything has to be free, and...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Oct 6, 2008
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0 Spokeo is down due to data center’s power outage

Spokeo has been down since 4am PST this morning due to the power outage at our data center.  This power outage has affected many sites, and our data...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Sep 23, 2008
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0 Spokeo is down due to data center’s power outage

Spokeo has been down since 4am PST this morning due to the power outage at our data center.  This power outage has affected many sites, and our data...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Sep 23, 2008
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0 Check Out BOSS Mashable Challenge Submissions

There are less than 10 days left to send your submission to the Boss Mashable Challenge to win either the $2,000 Grand Prize or the $1,000 runner-up...

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0 Recent unplanned downtime

If you’ve been trying to check Spokeo People Search or our blog recently, you may have been told that it was down.  Unfortunately, this weekend, our...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Aug 31, 2008
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0 Recent unplanned downtime

If you’ve been trying to check Spokeo People Search or our blog recently, you may have been told that it was down.  Unfortunately, this weekend, our...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Aug 31, 2008
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0 People search is “the new black”

Remember when you first googled yourself? You didn’t know want to expect, but you’ll have to admit that it was pretty darn cool to see yourself as a...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Aug 11, 2008
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0 People search is “the new black”

Remember when you first googled yourself? You didn’t know want to expect, but you’ll have to admit that it was pretty darn cool to see yourself as a...

  • Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Aug 11, 2008
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