Product Highlights & Updates

One of the most difficult features to implement is the import/add progress. It’s a small detail that shows up only when you add something new, or when you import an account. However, it takes a lot of engineering time and talent to do it right. Let’s walk through the process of importing an account. First, [...]

Many of your friends have private blogs and profiles. Before, you couldn’t track them on Spokeo. Now you can! This sounds like a no-brainer that should have been done months ago. In fact, many users have requested this. It’s taken us a while because it’s really hard to do (I don’t think you can find [...]

We’re currently installing some new features on Spokeo that you may be interested in.  Most importantly, Spokeo is now supporting your private friends!  When you ask us to import all your friends from your social network account, we will now not only provide you all the public ones, but also the private ones as well [...]

You may have noticed that Spokeo went down for some upgrading.  Wonder what that upgrade is?  Read on! If you’ve been using Spokeo for a while now, you may have become familiar with our black/red theme.  But, have you ever wondered what browsing Spokeo under different color theme would look like?  Now, you no longer [...]

There’s a limit to how many friends you can connect online. Most people can only maintain friendships with 20 ~ 40 people. Beyond that, friends are no more than profile images on MySpace. One of Spokeo’s original goals is to increase that social limit, to enable people to easily connect with hundreds of friends. We [...]

What is this?  Is it another geek’s term?  Give me a minute to explain, and you’ll find this feature very useful. Spokeo tells you the number of new updates since you last clicked on a buddy (in other words, since the last time you read that person).  If there’s something new that you haven’t seen, [...]

Imagine this scenario. You’re using Spokeo, happily stalking getting caught up with your friends. You click around, checking out racy pics and random drunken posts. Then you wonder to yourself, “how do I do XXXXXXX in Spokeo?” You look around for the button but cannot find it. You go to the folks at Spokeo and [...]

Ever wish you didn’t have to use your mouse to browse through all your buddies’ content on Spokeo? Just want to read the content you haven’t read? Your dreams have finally been realized! Today we introduced keyboard shortcuts to Spokeo. Now, if you can’t find your mouse or it has run out of batteries, you [...]

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