As you might have already noticed the bold Badge on the right sidebar of this blog 123people is proud to be part of the LeWeb’s blogger network so we will be blogging LIVE from this amazing conference in Paris on December 9/10.

The LeWeb is organized by Entrepreneuer and Web Enthusiast Loic le Moir, founder of Seesmic, and within years became one of the most influential european Web and Tech Conferences. Not only the extraordinary fine list of Keynote speakers but also the list of Participants contribute to the quality of the conference.

Lukas, a 123people team member and a blogger himself, will be covering the entire conference for 123people and is going to watch out for what people are going to say about the emerging market of people search. What’s new, what’s next and who is to keep an eye on.

123people is a great resource for reconnecting with long lost friends, family and ex-band members.  Since the launch on Monday almost 3/4 million people have visited the site to find everyone they want to know.  The blogosphere has been buzzing about the functionalities of 123people and the comprehensive search results.

Samuel Dean from Web Worker Daily blog suggests using 123people if you’re in search of  lost colleagues or need to find someone for any reason, give it a try.  

‘After a series of test searches for three writers I used to work with but had lost track of, I definitely find 123 People useful. It found concrete e-mail address probabilities and physical addresses for two of the three writers (and the third is a woman who I believe has a different last name than she used to, so not finding her is forgivable).

Blogger Rex Dixon used 123people to find lost band mates he had not seen in over 14 years and found their information in one simple search. 

‘With 123People, not only do you get a string of endless links, but you get social network connections, YouTube connections, as well as e-mail addresses, article links, etc… The complete person search results you want. The most important thing here, is that you also get pictures. You are not just receiving back a spit result list of articles and links where it “might be” where the person you are searching for is located at online.

There yah go…..happy people finding

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Next generation people search tool, 123people (http://www.123people.com) hits the web with its US public beta launch. 123people is a high performance people search functionality that finds and identifies people’s information from publicly available sources across the web.

123people is also socially interactive, applying crowd wisdom to search results. Users can rate and add information to every single search result, giving it more relevance with details that are not yet found on the Internet, taking the quality of people search to the next level. An “Update Newsletter Service” provides users information about new search results on the Internet.

123people outperforms existing search sites by:

·  Using an innovative search function that finds peoples’ contact details, images, videos, web links, biographies, news, blogs, documents and social network profiles from hundreds of international and social media sources

·  Organizing the relevant information in a dynamic hub where users can find the most up-to-date information on anyone.

“We are out to change the way Web users search and discover people information,” says Russell Perry, CEO of 123people.com. “Some years ago people used the telephone book to find peoples’ information. But today it is not only about addresses and telephone numbers – it is about videos, photos, email-addresses, blogs and much more. 123people.com brings superior search results because our search is optimized, and gets better every day, because we take strong efforts to include locally relevant sources like white pages, Zoominfo and news outlets, such as CNN, NY Times, and WSJ as well as other web 2.0 offerings for the next generation of people search.“

 What makes 123people different?

The site is designed to fundamentally improve the quality of people search on the Web. In addition to aggregating people information from globally accessible databases and social networks on the Web. 123people.com also search country-specific Web sites, providing fast access comprehensive results.

Search results from major engines are often overwhelmingly buried in pages of unrelated results and can be frustratingly incomprehensive. Niche search sites give users a faster, more effective, and direct way of locating specific information.

123people Features:

· 123people aggregates people-related data

· User can tag search results and give them more relevance

· Includes popular social media profiles (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Xing, Friendster, HiFive, FlickR, Bebo, Bloglines, Blogger, Zoominfo, LastFM,)

· Instant Messenger profiles and Microblogs, such as, AIM and twitter

· Tagclouds

· Biographies

· Phone numbers, addresses and emails

· News page results from CNN, NY Times, WSJ and USA today.

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With people search making up 30 percent of all searches, people search has become a popular category among internet users…with many users starting with a ‘me’ search…we have all done it, call it ego searches if you will, but you will be surprised by what is available on the internet about you.

Results from the big search engines bring about a lot of noise and information overload with much of which is irrelevant.  Niche sites like 123people provide more depth and less noise targeted search results in a vertical platform.

Over the past several weeks,  123people have seen a rising flow of traffic as people start discovering us and telling their friends, seeing the value of our comprehensive search results.  

Type in ‘Barack Obama‘ you are greeted with images from popular social networks like; facebook, Myspace, Flickr, and google and wikipedia.   Want to follow Obama on twitter?  find all Obama related twitter accounts with 123people, aswell as blogs, weblinks and real-time news clippings from CNN, NYTimes and WSJ, all presented in a dynamic hub.

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After months of private beta, tweaking and adding new features to improve the high powered people search.  123 People launches to the US public. Now anyone can search for everyone the want to know.

123people is not setting out to compete with major search engines, but redefining the search for people.

The new feature uses the wisdom of crowds to add more relevance to search results.  Users can now add and tag information to all search results.

123people allows you to keep track and up-to-date of news and information about everyone you want to you know as it happens, using global social media and news sources.

Happy searching

Jennifly/123people

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!