Good Reads

Yelp is surely one of the big success stories of the past year or two. It’s impressive just how visible their influence has become: those "People Love Us on Yelp" stickers can be spotted in tiny neighborhood pizzerias and fancy steakhouses alike, posted on the door like a badge of honor. And people aren’t just [...]

We at Spokeo are very proud of our little mascot. Hedgehogs deserve a lot more attention then they get. In order to deepen your appreciation and understanding of this adorable, spiny little mammal, I thought I’d share some fun facts (sources in parentheses). Enjoy!: •  Hedgehogs earned their name from their pig-like snout and grunt, [...]

Spokeo founder Harrison Tang recently sat down with Time magazine columnist Joel Stein to discuss Spokeo, the "people search industry," online privacy and much more. It was a frank and open discussion, and you can read a small portion of the interview in the latest issue of Time. We were definitely excited to be mentioned [...]

Mark Suster, a guest-blogger over at TechCrunch, has written a fun, breezy history of social networking. Suster was there in the beginning, from the misty pre-history of CompuServe and Prodigy through the AOL epoch, when a plague of those CDs with "1000 Hours of FREE AOL" began popping up all over the place (my brother [...]

"Jaron Zepel Lanier (born May 3, 1960) pronounced /ˈdʒɛrɨn lɨˈnir/ is an American computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author. He made an experimental film in the past, but does not consider himself a filmmaker. In the early 1980s he popularized the term "Virtual Reality" (VR) for a field in which he was a pioneer. [...]

“The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” – A Book By Nicholas Carr I have trouble focusing sometimes.  Allow me to give you an example: Do you recall reading the sentence, "I have trouble focusing sometimes"?   I hope you enjoyed it, because it took me half an hour to write.  I typed [...]

Check out this interesting study done by the Pew Institute on how people monitor their identity and search for others online.   PS: Follow us on Twitter to get up-to-the-minute tweets on other cool things we find online!

Hey bloggers! I thought I would share some of the websites that I regularly visit. Some of them are more for entertainment purposes than others, but they’re all definitely worth checking out. 1. Fark "It’s not news, it’s Fark." Fark is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site (it’s kind of like [...]

Welcome to the world of Harrison! I love traveling; in fact, I like it so much that I’ve posted maps from different parts of the world in my room. Sadly, I don’t have the money and the time to visit places, so I read people’s travel blogs as some kind of consolation. There are thousands [...]

The two days off are welcome after a week of hard work and I feel they should be packed with activity. How do I decide what to do? I track a few popular sites on Spokeo to see what is happening in my neighborhood and also the places I travel to frequently. I thought I [...]