The eOK .network

I’ve been really interested in people search Web 2.0 apps such as Wink, Zoominfo, and PeekYou. These online apps are a cross between a phonebook, search engine, and social network and work really well for the narcissistic and the occasional voyeur.

But I just learned about a new site via Guy Kawasaki’s blog called Spokeo which, in my opinion, turns the small world of people search on its head and will get privacy advocates up in arms.

The site will as you for sources to get identifiable information, in my case it was Gmail where I got a whole lot of email addresses.

The site will then trawl 35 social sites for information relating to these people by name or any identifiable information the system can get out of my Gmail address book.

Immediately, I get a summary page with information like:

Walter Lim posted new photos on Flickr
Rosalyn Wee posted new photos on Flickr
Vanessa Tan posted an entry vantan’s QuickMix on Pandora
Titus Seah posted an entry titus_yorke’s QuickMix on Pandora
Victoria Ho posted an entry me8477’s QuickMix on Pandora
Olivia Choong posted new photos on Flickr
Kelvin Chan posted new photos on Hi5
Vernon Quek posted new photos on Friendster
Victoria Ho posted new photos on Friendster
Victor Quek posted new photos on Friendster
Yilin Chow posted new photos on Friendster

And a side bar that tracks every one of my contacts and their online activities. What was amazing was I never had to leave the site to see thumbnails of photos these people posted on Flickr, links they posted on Digg, etc. It was all there just like a feed reader.

This is where it gets spooky. Instead of just searching out and finding, this system lets you log back in to track the updates! I mean I love automated technology and all, but if you thought Facebook was revealing, this is the motherload!