Mozilla Labs recently released the already highly acclaimed human language search enhancement Ubqiuity (comes from latin and means “everywhere”) for Firefox. It’s all about type as you talk, but watch Mozilla’s video for what this “monster” is capable of doing:

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

123people.com is one of the first Sites which developed a people search add-on for Ubiquity. Simply install Ubiquity and go to one of the 123people Sites (either 123people.com, 123people.at, 123people.de or 123people.ch).

If you have Ubiquity installed you should be prompted to be able to install the 123people add-on. Whenver you highlight a name on any site you can right-click on it and search it directly via 123people.com. Another option to access the utility is to enter the Ubiquity Search field with your HotKey Combination and then type “people search” (or start typing it - it’ll show up immediately) and then the person’s name you want to look for.

We definitely think that Ubiquity is one of the up and coming Stars on the Web. It’s a true enhancement of the widely distributed information on the web. To sum it all up: A perfect addition to people search on the web - faster, more efficient and accesible.

Please let us know if you experience any bugs or issues via searchfeedback@123people.com

Hey folks,

as you can see we are back online again. Sorry for the outage, hope you understand.

Hey Guys,

We are experiencing some issues with our database and trying to reboot the server right now. Should be fixed as soon as possible.

Sorry, we’ll keep you upated on how long it’s going to take.

Again, a huge sorry from our dev team!

Hi everybody,

I wanted to let you know about one of our new partners - presentify. It’s not really a content partner, however, we have been using their service several times in order to organize our parties, barbecues and other things we had or have to celebrate here at tripwolf.com.

Presentify lets you create your very own party site, manage your invites and send out e-mails and notifications to people you invited to your event. Compared to similar services surch as evite.com or amiando.com presentify’s interface and clear and easy to manage. The site is unfortunaltey only available in german right now (or is it ip-logged?) but I think the guys are doing a great job in improving planning your parties. So go check it out.

lukas / 123people.com

As Murray Dick, a UK based online research specialist, indicates in his latest blog entry:

“The most thorough people finder I’ve found yet is 123people. It’s a great place to find email addresses, Instant Messaging accounts, and the tag cloud feature can help you tease out relationships between your subject and their contacts. Another major advantage with 123people is you can cross-reference other terms with your name (so if your subject lives in Oxford, include it to refine your search).”

Dick is one of a kind and advises companies like the BBC regarding online search and specific people search. In this blog post he compared several people search engines and we have to admit that we are quite happy for this honor.

Seems like 123people is getting the best results on people out there. Yeahh!