| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.10.2016 | Vydia Raises Over $1.1M in Series Seed | Vydia, a NJ-based video technology company, has announced that it has completed a Seed round of funding that consisted of $1.15M new money raised, in addition to $765k previously acquired from convertible debt. The round was lead by Connect... |
| 03.03.2011 | How popular are you online? PeekScores knows | Ever wonder how popular you are on the Web — and how you stack up to others?
People search company PeekYou has developed a program that lets you track how your online persona ranks relative to others’ on the Internet.
It released data this ... |
| 07.07.2010 | German court sets legal parameters for people search | Yesterday, in a small Hamburg court room, something special happened – at least when it comes to the legal parameters of people search applications on the web.
The ligitator, a young woman, sued 123people. Specifically its German web proper... |
| 05.10.2009 | 123people brings people search to its iPhone app | [Austria] Controversial Vienna based people search Startup 123people (Which TechCrunch covered from it’s early days) just released their iPhone App. The App hardly differs from the Web platform regarding the core functionality. The basic id... |
| 16.09.2009 | TC50: Six Noteworthy Startups From Korea And Japan | Nearly 130 million people use the web in Japan and Korea combined, with Japan itself boasting the world’s third biggest Internet population (94 million users). But getting exposure on an international scale is a big problem for globally pos... |
| 30.04.2009 | Intelius buys Spock, the people search engine | Intelius, a company that performs background checks on people, has acquired Spock, a people search engine, for an undisclosed amount.
The deal was signed today, VentureBeat just confirmed with Spock’s co-founder Jaideep Singh. Unconfirmed r... |
| 29.04.2009 | Spock And Intelius? Uh Oh. | People search engine Spock is about to be sold, say multiple sources. Spock was a hot startup back when it launched in 2007, but after an initial spike in traffic, the company has gone sideways and faded into obscurity. People search, it se... |
| 16.03.2009 | The deep Web and the future of finding things | The discovery landscape
Wize Deep Web
A recent article in the New York Times about the “Deep Web” got us thinking about the future of finding things. At Wize, we hold a few things dear when it comes to search and discovery. They are differe... |
| 29.01.2009 | Pipl.com: People Search Engine So Good, It Will Scare Your Pants Off | Google may be good at many things, but people search is not one of them. For that you’ll have to use a more specialized search engine. Spock and Wink (merged with Reunion.com) are the people-search destinations most TechCrunch readers could... |
| 26.12.2008 | Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies | In this article, we’ll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We’ll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds.
In a recent interview Tim Bern... |
| 17.11.2008 | 10 Semantic Apps to Watch – One Year Later | In November 2007, we listed and reviewed 10 promising Semantic Web apps. A lot can happen in one year on the Internet, so we thought we’d check back in with each of the 10 products and see how they’re progressing. What’s changed over the pa... |
| 07.11.2008 | Spock To Offer Public Record Search Subscription Service | Remember Spock? Over a year ago there was a lot of buzz around this vertical search engine for people, but now that excitement has worn off. Instead of searching for people on Spock or other similar people search engines, most users simply ... |
| 04.09.2008 | MeeID: A Simple App For Your Online Identity | Throughout the years, many sites have attempted to organize our online identities. There are people search tools like Spock, Naymz, and Rapleaf, to name a few that can locate your profile across the web and display for others to see. More r... |
| 08.07.2008 | Exclusive: First Look At Genome, A Next-Gen Social Networking Service | What are the number one problems facing today’s social networks? According to the young developer Vladislav Chernyshov they are: privacy issues, distraction and time-wasting, quantity over quality, ads, and lack of control over your identit... |
| 05.06.2008 | Startup2Startup: Dinners for new entrepreneurs, like what they did back in the old days | Dave McClure: You can’t spend much time socializing in the Silicon Valley web scene and not know who this sometimes irreverent, garish-T-shirt-clad geek is. The entrepreneur/angel investor/social media enthusiast has been around since 1994:... |
| 16.05.2008 | Dirt-digging websites on the rise | Websites to help users find out if friends, family and co-workers have any secrets in the closet are proliferating in the US, WSJ.com reports.
And the material they can uncover goes way beyond the results you can get by tapping a name into ... |
| 08.04.2008 | People-search startup Spock.com seeks partners, maybe with Google | New search engine venture Spock.com is using a Linux-based software architecture to save money on development. But it's also showing some ingenuity with its business model, focusing on partnership rather than competition.
NEW YORK CITY (Bet... |
| 01.03.2008 | Biographicon Wants To Be Wikipedia For The Non-Notable Masses | Having a page put up about you in Wikipedia is difficult, mostly because of the Notability requirement for inclusion – and you aren’t “notable” unless you’ve received significant media coverage elsewhere. Other services have filled in the g... |
| 20.02.2008 | Semantic Web: Where Are The Meaning-Enabled Authoring Tools? | By Nitin Karandikar Much has been written recently about the concepts, approaches and applications of the Semantic Web. But there’s something missing. In terms of understanding, finding and displaying content, there is no doubt that the Sem... |
| 06.02.2008 | 150 Invites To 123people.com For TechCrunch Readers | New comer to the people search game 123people.com is a Austrian based startup that is looking to provide a new take on the competitive people search market with a European focus.
There’s no shortage of wannabes in this space. Spock, Wink, Z... |
| 07.01.2008 | BigSight Aims to Become White Pages of Web, Pulls Data from Facebook | While we’ve covered the people search sector, and Facebook’s entrance into that sector, we have yet to profile a nascent site called BigSight that seeks to become the go-to web destination for people profiles.
BigSight differs from other pe... |
| 28.11.2007 | 10 Semantic Apps to Watch | One of the highlights of October’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of ‘Semantic Apps’ as a force. Note that we’re not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts t... |
| 28.09.2007 | Xing releases new features, in challenge to LinkedIn | Two days ago, we reported that LinkedIn had finally added profile pictures to their features list. Now a competitor, Xing, is announcing a slew of new features.
Xing already had profile images. Its users will now have the ability to include... |
| 07.09.2007 | Roundup: Singularity hype, Xobni, Rapleaf selling your data, Vudu, Seedcamp and more | Here’s the latest action:
Singularity Institute, the quirky group that thinks machines will take over — Peter Thiel, the former CEO of PayPal, and leader of the Founders Fund, graces the pages of the Mercury News and the SF Chron today with... |
| 05.09.2007 | Peoplesearch latest trend… SMS me a beach BBQ… P*rn still lurks at work… eCommerce complaints | Peoplesearch latest trend
SMS me a beach BBQ
P*rn still lurks at work
eCommerce complaints Peoplesearch – the latest web trend
It’s fun to Google yourself, but increasingly keen web users want to find information about other people – and a ... |
| 31.08.2007 | The rush to people search: Viadeo, ZoomInfo, Yahoo China, Spock…and PeekYou | For years, technology to search for people has been neglected, compared to most parts of the Web. Until now, that is.
A wave of new entrants are making it much easier to find out everything about a person, from their job, to their personali... |
| 30.08.2007 | PeekYou: Spock Has Competition | PeekYou is a fairly new site that competes in a growingly crowded people search space.
The site offers the standard features we’ve come to expect from people focused search sites. A general user profile includes tags, which are divided into... |
| 20.08.2007 | Spock Traffic Surges – Number 1 Mover on Alexa | Since launching a few weeks ago, the people search engine Spock is experiencing very heavy traffic – according to the company and also external measures like Alexa. Spock is currently rated number 1 on the Movers and Shakers page on Alexa. ... |
| 08.08.2007 | Spock Open Public Beta | People search engine Spock, which we’ve been covering for a few months, has publicly launched.
Spock differs from differs from recently launched WikiYou and other people search engines by using algorithms to find and merge the majority of t... |
| 07.08.2007 | People search engine Spock launches | Spock, the Redwood City, Calif. search engine for people, launches tomorrow after a year of suspense.
It has remained secretive for months (see our original coverage), testing its engine, adding some 100,000 profiles and inserting other soc... |
| 24.07.2007 | The Web’s Top Takeover Targets | This past year has been a very eventful one in the M&A arena, with many of web 2.0’s biggest names being snapped up. A few stand-outs include the likes of YouTube, Photobucket, Feedburner, Last.fm, and StumbleUpon.
Yet, there still rema... |
| 22.06.2007 | Supernova: Connected Innovators | This afternoon at Supernova thirteen companies selected by TechCrunch and Supernova,
from 130 applicants, presented at the Connected Innovators
Session. The companies presented to a panel of experts including Mike Arrington from
TechCrunch,... |
| 01.06.2007 | Roundup: Google’s Korean clutter, Real’s player, Panoramio and more | Here’s the latest action:
Google Korea has cluttered page — This is a striking departure from the spartan interface Google is known for. Details here. We checked with Google, and a spokeswoman confirmed the Korean site was developed in resp... |
| 21.05.2007 | Meet the 2007 Connected Innovators | Kevin Werbach and I are pleased to announce this year’s finalists to present at the Supernova 2007 Conference, on Thursday, June 21, 3:30pm – 5:30pm, at the Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco.
We had a record number of submissions th... |
| 14.05.2007 | 100 Invites To Spock Beta Available Right Now | Spock, the new people search engine, has been getting a lot of buzz the last few weeks. We posted an overview and screen shots last month and I recently moderated a panel that included them, Wink and ZoomInfo (notes are here). but the found... |
| 09.05.2007 | War Of The People Search | I moderated a fascinating panel tonight at Google headquarters that included execs from three “people search engines” – the CEO of Wink (Michael Tanne), the CEO of Spock (Jaideep Singh), and the COO of Zoominfo (Bryan Burdick).
The panel wa... |
| 07.05.2007 | Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google | Written by Nitin Karandikar
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) – each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein th... |
| 04.05.2007 | Roundup: YouTube pays, Truemors, Techdirt, Kokua, Boo.com and more | Here’s the latest action:
YouTube follows through, almost — YouTube tomorrow (Friday) will start sharing advertising revenue with select video content creators, though not with the masses yet. The move to share revenue with users had been s... |
| 16.04.2007 | People search engine, Spock, two months away | Spock, the secretive people search engine getting ready to launch in two months, showed another demo to VentureBeat last week.
It has shown improvements from last year, when we first got a look. The company also just announced the “Spock ch... |
| 11.04.2007 | Exclusive Screenshots: Spock's New People Engine | It’s not often we hear about a startup’s venture financing before we see the product, but that is the case with yet-to-launch Spock, located in Silicon Valley. Rumors about their $7 million Series A round of financing from Clearstone Ventur... |
| 19.12.2006 | People search engine Spock raises $7M, to launch next year | Spock, the Menlo Park start-up that wants to provide a definitive search engine focused on people, has raised $7 million in a first round of VC funding from Clearstone and Opus Capital Ventures.
VentureBeat reviewed the secretive company he... |
| 19.12.2006 | Update on VentureBeat’s $100,000-plus jobs | Check out the fresh $100,000+ jobs at the VentureBeat JobBoard.
Here are some of the recent listings:
—Spock, the secretive people search company which you’ll be hearing more about here in news this evening, and which VentureBeat wrote abou... |
| 27.11.2006 | Ucloo, the worrisome Chinese people search engine | Updated
So which Silicon Valley venture firm will dare touch Ucloo?
Ucloo is a year-old Chinese people search engine, and there are many things not to like about this site. First, check out the logo. What does it remind you of? At least the... |
| 02.11.2006 | LinkedIn’s squeeze, poor VCs, rich founders & much more | Updated
Here’s the latest tech goings-on in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, minus the Google stuff.
Hoovers’ assault on LinkedIn — We recently mentioned Spock, the people search engine that is challenging LinkedIn to become the largest provid... |
| 31.10.2006 | Spock offers an ambitious “people” search engine | Updated
Spock, a secretive Menlo Park start-up incubated with $1 million from Clearstone Venture Partners, will unveil a search engine for people by the end of the year.
From a demo we’ve seen, we think it could be a powerful addition. Spoc... |
| 31.10.2006 | Introducing VentureBeat’s job board — for $100,000+ jobs | We’ve just launched the VentureBeat JobBoard.
You might say, oh, yet another job board?!
The VentureBeat JobBoard is different because it is the only start-up oriented job board focused exclusively on high-end jobs — those paying $100,000 a... |
| 21.07.2006 | Roundup: 37Signals, MetroFi, CaliSolar & Duffield’s taxes…and more | 37signals, the jazzy Web 2.0 company, takes funding from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — See the company’s announcement here about why. We last mentioned the company here. The company boasts: Since we launched Basecamp we’ve been contacted by n... |
