Wink in the WSJ
People Search Services
Today the Wall Street Journal contained a story that included Wink People Search. The story, by Journal writer Jessica Vascellaro discussed the new services available to search for people online and how they are moving beyond the classic background checking services and into richer services for more friendly uses like looking up an old friend.
Here’s a quote about Wink:
A new people-search engine on Wink.com of Wink Technologies Inc. searches 150 million profiles from several leading social-networking sites from LinkedIn Corp. to MySpace, owned by News Corp., to find people by name and screen name and facts in their profiles like school, location and interests. Users can search for people by place, interest or even age. Within months it plans to begin searching for people among blogs, photos and general Web pages too.
The Wink team has been hard at work on the Wink People Search and it’s getting better every week. We’re now searching more sources than ever before, and we are adding more ways to search. For example, if there are many people with the same name, you can narrow your search by location, including city, state/province, country and postal code. To find people who live near an area, say Chicago metro area, try out the location slider bar for example, to search for people who are 25, 50, or 100 miles away.
By getting a profile at Wink, you can link together any of your other profiles on the Web from places like MySpace, LinkedIn, last.fm, flickr, twitter, del.icio.us, upcoming, etc. By getting the Wink Widget, you can give visitors to your places the ability to find your other places.
Cheers,
Michael
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