Posted by admin on 26. January 2009 – 20:05
Last week lifehacker asked its readers to vote for their favorite people search engine, in a poll. This week the votes have been tallied and its down to the top 5 favorites which include 123people.
-123people
-pipl
-facebook
-google
-spock
Lifehacker had this to say about 123people. ‘123people is a strong people-search engine, but one of the best pieces of functionality available to 123people searchers is its email notification feature which sends out an email alert whenever the results of a specific search changes.’
Your vote counts, please vote for 123people- your favorite people search
Vote here
Jennifly/123people
Posted by admin on 17. January 2009 – 00:42
If you did not know, the US is about to welcome its first African American President in its history, Barack Obama!
Well how could you not know… the whole world knows, unless you live in a hole in some austere surroundings where there are no people or access to news or radio. Everybody knows!
Its a celebration!
It is really exciting times across the whole world and especially America. I am so glad to witness history and feel a sense of hope and pride. The people have spoken and elected their leader.
Obama represents a new generation of new thoughts and creative ideas. He is embracing web 2.0 to share information using popular social media tools such as twitter and youtube for his weekly address.
Obama has been so popular, that he was the top search topic in 2008 on 123people and the main search engines.
In short he is one cool dude. I will be heading to the nations’ capital Washington D.C. on Jan 20th with millions of others across the nation to be a part of history, as the new President is sworn in.
To a new beginning…hip hop hooray!
Jennifly/123people
Posted by admin on 6. January 2009 – 23:37
Between current economic conditions and the technological evolution of the Internet, the traditional approach most job seekers have taken in the past is no longer viable.
The new approach is far different. It boils down to the fact that there are fewer jobs available, more competition for those jobs and more touch points for recruiters and seekers to interact.
Social networks are starting to become part of the criteria that both hiring managers and college admissions officers are using to weed out applicants. One in Five hiring managers conduct background checks using social networks (primarily Facebook), while one in ten college admissions officers do the same.
It’s time for you to be open-minded and think differently about how you’re going to get your next job and keep it. Conduct a People Search instead of a Job Search using 123people. You can target your search to company execs and hiring managers of companies you want to work for, track current employees and find out more about what else they do. With the contact details such as; email address, facebook, linkedIn and twitter profiles provided you can reach out and network connecting on a personal level.
Many studies have noted that 80% of jobs are taken through networking, but few have sought to use the web to search and locate people they would actually enjoy working for at companies that they get excited about.
Via Mashable
Posted by admin on 6. January 2009 – 20:26
The New Year is here and the people at 123 people are making some resolutions for 2009.
Russell CEO of 123people ‘in 2009 we are going to continue our strong growth in Europe and the United States and push forward with bringing people search closer to home with more local partners, faster searches, and more local languages. More than 2 million people visited our site since our launch in October 2008 and we are expecting more than 10 million by the summer of 2009. Against the trend of charging for people searches, 123people will stay free and advertising supported.’
Jennifly – Learn Spanish and creating the life I want to live
Simon Dawlat – Wants to learn German, so he can understand the 123people team who are all Austrian
Sebastian Heinzel – Wants to do a triathlon and go back to backpacks
Adena Harford - Wants to work yoga into her schedule every day
Franz Enzenhofer – Wants to make 123people the world market leader in the people search business.
What are your resolutions for 2009 please share.
Jennifly/123people
Posted by admin on 5. January 2009 – 13:05
We are now back again with great results and a really fast search. Check it out!
…and thanks for your patience!
The 123people technical team
Posted by admin on 5. January 2009 – 11:54
Hi everyone,
as you might have already noticed 123people is not available this morning. We are improving the speed and quality of the results right now and we’ll be back shortly.
Updates are being posted here; Shouldn’t last too long.
Thanks for your understanding!
The 123people technical team
Posted by admin on 29. December 2008 – 18:18
Happy Holidays everyone…..thank you for using 123people…..2009 is going to be even better
Posted by admin on 10. December 2008 – 23:55
Terri Wells from SEOChat recently wrote an in depth review on 123people - she explored all corners of the site, pointing out some interesting aspects about the interface and discovering some surprising results.
Part 1 Finding people with 123people
Part 2 Can 123people find you?
Jennifly/123people
Posted by admin on 10. December 2008 – 20:33
As previously posted Lukas and myself are representing 123people at LeWeb in Paris. We arrived in Paris late monday night and things have been exciting ever since. We went to the open coffee club on monday, enjoyed a long but exhausting day yesterday at the conference, where it was freezing and the food not enough (RT: Lars Hinrichs from Xing on twitter: “#leweb i dont no what is more difficult: get funding for a company or get decent & enough food at leweb“) , and then we also paid the myspace party a visit. Lukas summed some of the facts up:
- open coffee club was good but unfortunatly we arrived there a little late
- the goat cheese lasagne at an already closed restaurant was worth coming to paris
- mama shelter is the sexiest hotel we’ve ever been to
- it’s cold out there in Paris
- nothing seems close
Today we listened to some of the speakers, eg Marissa Mayer from Google and Robert Scobles presenting the winning team from the start-up competition, which is Viewdle “a facial recognition powered digital media platform for easily indexing, searching & monetizing video assets”. It’s always nice to me among so many interesting people and get a chance to simply walk over to them and as them whatever you want.
Here’s a photo from the main venue, where the conference took place:
lea/123people
Posted by admin on 4. December 2008 – 16:33
As we continue to grow and reach a global audience, 123people has now launched in the UK.
After our recent successful US launch, reaching the UK market was our next goal. We have put great effort on local business services in the UK to make search results relevant. News sources include; The Telegraph, Times Online, The Guardian and The Sun. Now you can find anyone you want to know on both sides of the Atlantic.
http://123people.co.uk
jennifly/123people
