Blog Power - Expands Knowledge

Okay - yesterday was my first official Blog and as a result of that posting I was amazed that someone one that I didn't know would take the time to read it and comment on it. I have been looking at using Social Networks and Google Reader to keep up with business co-workers, family, friends and just to get new fresh ideas. I really expected for my Blog to be a vehicle to push that information out to this network. Instead it just opened the door for me to see new and great things out there.

The people that commented on my Blog were actually pushing their sites so in a way they had a very good reason to be surfing peoples Blog's looking for an opportunity to expose their business. As a result of this I am grateful in that they exposed me to new cutting edge things that I will use and even broadened my knowledge of other things out there. One of them is what I am going to comment about today:

http://www.spokeo.com

This site is like a Google reader but the focus of the reader is your network and the sites that "THEY" are using. You go in and put in your logins to the various Social Networks your belong to and/or upload your email contact list. For me that was:

• LinkedIn
• MySpace
• Facebook

Then what it does is look at your friends and contacts across a very large list of Social Networks and imports updated information that "THEY" have put onto those sites. No emails being sent out and all this is done quietly behind the scenes - it even opens doors of other sites / information that I hadn't even thought or heard of. Some of these will be in upcoming Blogs.

Now this can be kind of scary in that you see information that you might not have expected to see. An example of this is that it even pulls things like what is on your "Wish List" from Amazon.com. But overall you will see when they have added anything to their profiles, so you don't have to jump from one social network to the next just to see if they have updated anything. It is all shown in the Spokeo reader - if they add something you want then you just click on the new item and it takes you to their profile. Quick, Simple, Painless!!! Speeding up this already Super-Fast World of Information and Knowledge...