Monitor your friends activity across many social web sites using Spokeo

Posted on December 15, 2007 at 6:48 am

Are you addicted to FaceBook? Or maybe you’re more addicted to the “News Feed” that constantly bombards you with useless tidbits of information about all of your friends, like who just became friends, who added pictures to their profile, which applications people installed, etc, etc.?

If you enjoy that, you probably would really enjoy knowing what your friends are doing across other social web sites, such as which pictures they post to Flickr or which articles they submit to Digg or even their latest Twitters! If you want to truly track your friends and their online activities, you need something that can monitor many social web sites at once.

And that’s where Spokeo can help you out! It’s basically a “News Feed” for all of your friends online activity from more than 30 social web sites, including Last.fm, Digg, StumbleUpon, Flickr, Bebo, Twitter, Yelp, YouTube, and more! So next time a friend post a video on YouTube or writes a review on Yelp, you’ll know about it! Pretty neat.

Once you sign up, you can start tracking friends SUPER easily by having Spokeo import your contacts from Gmail, Hotmail, of Yahoo mail. The best thing about the service is that you don’t have to do anything manually, like typing in names of people or sites to monitor, it’s all automated and presented to you like a blog feed.

Your friends do not have to be on Spokeo in order for you to get updates either and the scary thing is that they won’t even know you are monitoring them! It feels kind of like spying, until you think about and realize that all of this information is publicly available anyway, Spokeo has just created a service to help manage it all in one place.

Spokeo does not have any kind of social networking features, such as profiles, messaging, it’s simply an information finder and aggregator. The only problem you might come across is if you have LOTS of friends and they do LOTS of stuff online, your feed may be enormous with tons of twitters, etc, etc. Also, Spokeo adds everyone in your contact list to it’s system automatically, so you have to manually delete the people you don’t want to track.

However, the really nice thing is that it’s broken down into separate feeds for each contact, that way if you’re really interested in only a few people, you can quickly see their activity and not have to sift through the useless activity of other people.

Overall, it’s a pretty cool way to find and keep track of what’s going on with your friends across all major social sites. If you’ve used a feed reader before like Google Reader, you’ll feel right at home. Enjoy! Source TechCrunch

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2 Responses to “Monitor your friends activity across many social web sites using Spokeo”

Stephanie said on : December 11th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

Yes, but Spokeo now costs money to use! Are there any other similar services that are free?

akishore said on : December 12th, 2008 at 11:29 am

I didn’t realize Spokeo is no longer free! That sucks! You can still monitor your friends using a service like FriendFeed. I’m not sure it’s as good as Spokeo, but give it a shot.