May
13
How to stalk: an online guide
“If you are still relying on Google to snoop on your friends, you are behind the curve.” (WSJ) This is one trend I don’t mind missing out on. But if you are so inclined…
- ZabaSearch.com turns up public records such as criminal history and birthdates.
- Spock.com and Wink.com are “people-search engines” that specialize in digging up personal pages, such as social-networking profiles, buried deep in the Web.
- Spokeo.com is a startup that lets users see what their friends are doing on other Web sites.
- Zillow.com estimates the value of people’s homes.
- Huffington Post’s Fundrace feature tracks their campaign donations.
- Jigsaw.com lets people share details with each other from business cards they’ve collected — a sort of gray market for Rolodex data.