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Wanna Know More About Your Followers? SocialWhois.com By tweric

Feb 06, 2009

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SocialWhois: Whois Lookups for the Social Web

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Feb 05, 2009

Summary

When you want to know about a domain name, you jump to whois to get all of the information on the person who registered it. But when you want to know more about the person who just started following you on Twitter or FriendFeed, it hasn't been that easy - even though we've tried to provide you with tools to do it. Now, a new service promises to simplify the process. It's a new take on whois for the social web: SocialWhois, a service that uses XFN, microformats, APML, and tagging to provide a more complete picture of that new follower's presence online.

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The service works like any number of XFN crawlers we've seen, but it's simple enough that anyone can use it. Simply enter the Twitter or FriendFeed username of the person you'd like to look up. The service will do its best to guess who the person is. As we tested it, we found it doing an incredibly good job of guessing - finding all sorts of interesting and relevant links about the users we tried.

If you'd like to tweak the results for your profile - or hide your profile completely - you can always log in

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Comments (4)

Thomaspower,

Feb 05, 2009

site very primitive but right intention

Michaelfidler,

Feb 05, 2009

@thomaspower I agree, but the sites creator, Directeur, is very talented, and dedicated to making it work. He a very good listener also. There's a room on ff for it. Check it out and give him some feedback.