I recently discovered an innovative site called spokeo.com and was so impressed that I had to write a blog on it here. Spokeo is a wonderful tool which helps me keep track of who’s posting what and where as long as its open and public. I first started using the google reader around a year back, first for news and then for tracking all the relevant blogs. But this one takes it a step further by linking all the social networks I want to trace. The idea of an open social graph reader (as its popularly called) has been around for some time now, but spokeo was probably the first one to come out with a good enough version. When I mean good enough I mean it certainly is going to get better with time. First of all it has to include a few more networking sites like orkut, facebook (currently only facebook notes and shares are available) if it wants to attract more Indians. Then there is the small problem of not being able to see the blogs of my friends. Inspite of spokeos claim of being able to link with blogger, it doesn’t add by itself even if I import their gmail ID’s (I can add them on my own but it’s a whole lot of hard work and I’d rather use a normal reader like google reader if I had to do it). But apart from these two spokeo and its ilk certainly seem to be the future as far as RSS goes. And perhaps if someone could make a one stop solution where I can read my news from any site, check all my friends spread out across various networks & read all blogs, well then I’ll be hooked for life. There are certainly more features one could add but this one would certainly make a good start.
