You all know how Spokeo works, but some of you still ask “What exactly is Spokeo?” Let me cycle through some common terms.
Aggregator
An aggregator is a very broad class of websites. Any website that pulls information from more than one website is an aggregator. Pageflakes is an aggregator because it pulls weather information from one site and sports information from ESPN. My Yahoo and Digg are also aggregators. A trendy name for an aggregator is mashup.
DLA
DLA stands for Digital Life Aggregator. DLA’s are aggregators that specifically aggregate your information from many sites. All DLA’s other than Spokeo centralize your online profiles into one sooper dooper uber profile page. Spokeo centralizes your online friends into one one sooper dooper uber reading list.
Reader
A reader lets you read different sources of information. Until Spokeo arrived, readers only compiled blogs from generic sources. The most popular readers are Google Reader and Bloglines. Spokeo has some catching up to do!
Spokeo
So now, how do we classify Spokeo? Spokeo is an aggregator since it pulls in information from all your social networks. Spokeo is also a DLA since we pull in information that is specific to each user. Spokeo is the first reader to go beyond generic blogs.
We could call ourselves an all-in-one aggregator, DLA, and reader, but for the life of me, I cannot think of anything more obtuse. Who comes up with this stuff? Here, we call ourselves a friend tracker. So simple, and yet so clear. I know this blog post was a painful read, but hey, you brought it upon yourself. Watch what you ask for!
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