Update from LeWeb08

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Posted by admin on 10. December 2008 – 20:33
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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:

  1. open coffee club was good but unfortunatly we arrived there a little late
  2. the goat cheese lasagne at an already closed restaurant was worth coming to paris
  3. mama shelter is the sexiest hotel we’ve ever been to
  4. it’s cold out there in Paris
  5. 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:

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London Calling….123people has launched in the UK

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Posted by admin on 4. December 2008 – 16:33
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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

#2 Le Web: We found a hotel!

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Posted by admin on 28. November 2008 – 14:56
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Paris is well known for being probably the most romantic city on the planet. Yet the only thing I noticed was that it’s pricey when I was there last time a couple of years ago. Again, in a couple of weeks, when Lea and I will be at Le Web we looked for an affordable but chic modern Hotel with – obvoiusly – Wifi.

We really had to search the entire web, including tripwolf until we found out about Mama Shelter via a Next Web’s Blog post. They offer reasonably priced rooms with gorgeous interior and to the geeks adjusted room settings: iMac instead of TV, high speed Wifi, etc.

Have a look at those rooms and mouthwatering interiors by yourself and start booking your stay now.




lukas / 123people @ le web preperations

Real-time results online sees decline in book directories

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Posted by admin on 19. November 2008 – 20:31
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With the internet being the main tool for finding information and people, are those big bulky directories on top of your fridge becoming irrelevant?

According to the Wall Street Journal, YellowPages may be facing extinction as more and more people shift to the internet to place ads and search for businesses and people.

With more people in the US with a social network profile than ever, there is an increase of people with an online web presence, making book directories seem out dated and irrelevant.  Since the US launch of 123people.com, the site receives on average 200,000 unique visits per day from users conducting me and you searches, to find emails, weblinks and social network profiles of old-friends and family members.  

123people makes life so much easier for you.

 

 

jennifly/123people

Lukas & Lea @ LeWeb08: the first hello

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Posted by admin on 13. November 2008 – 18:29
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As Lukas already blogged a few days ago we’ll be representing 123people at the LeWeb conference in Paris next month. We are now in the midst of the preperations for our LeWeb coverage in Paris and we will be blogging and vlogging live on multiple blogs and in multiple languages.

The blogs where we’ll be covering live are:

tripwolf blog US

tripwolf blog DE

123people blog US

123people blog DE

123people blog FR (coming soon – as a special incentive for french speaking people ;) ) – we actually hired a native speaker

vanilleah

zinnaglism

The video was our first try with our HD camera and unfortunately our sound and ambient settings were, well, let’s call it suboptimal, but we will improve our skills in term of video blogging until LeWeb…

Win free Wi-fi routers

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Posted by admin on 4. November 2008 – 12:26
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Our friends and collegues over at tripwolf (an online travel guide) are giving away several FON wi-fi routers so you don’t have be offline anymore – even when you are travelling.

The idea of the game is simple: the more friends you invite to tripwolf, the higher are your chances of winning one of those routers. Furthermore might those points be used for further games and prizes – so start soon and you might be able to might really big stuff in the future via tripwolf.

There are already two lucky winners and besides that they really have some awesome travel photos in their flickr account – check them out.

123people goes LeWeb ‘08

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Posted by admin on 3. November 2008 – 10:28
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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.

Friends reunited using 123people search

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Posted by admin on 29. October 2008 – 23:25
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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

jennifly/123people

Multimedia people search directory hits the web

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Posted by admin on 29. October 2008 – 21:52
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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.

 

jennifly/123people

People Search a popular search term

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Posted by admin on 22. October 2008 – 00:21
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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.

Jennifly/123people