People search Archives
WhitePages.com’s iOS Apps Now Allow You to ‘Find Everything Nearby’
WhitePages.com has upgraded its iOS apps for iPhone and iPad and made them more user friendly and comprehensive. The tag line now is “find everything nearby,” which means residences, people and local stores. The new and improved app maintains existing features and adds a range of new capabilities. Among them you can now search for [...]
WhitePages Launches Two Neighborhood Search Tools
Over at SEL I’ve written about a new WhitePages.com local search app called Localicious. It’s focused on neighborhood-level search and has some nice features like “pre-checkins” (via Foursquare). Tips and reviews for businesses are drawn from APIs. I love the “Localicious” name but asked WhitePages’ Kevin Nakao why the company didn’t use the WhitePages brand [...]
Hiya: a Location-Aware Address Book from WhitePages
WhitePages.com has created a new (location-aware) mobile and Web-based contacts manager called Hiya. Most people’s contacts are highly disorganized and incomplete — I know mine are. WhitePages.com aims to change all that with Hiya. According to a survey WhitePages conducted with Harris to publicize the beta launch of Hiya: 94% of adults store contacts (in [...]
From Directory to 'Connectory'
At a WhitePages.com-sponsored “blogger day” last week, I and LMS colleague Pete Headrick, had a chance to hear about where the company’s been and where it’s going: interesting places. It was preceded by a Mike Arrington-moderated discussion about the iPhone and several iPhone apps (Urbanspoon, Jott, and WhitePages). The demos and initial discussion were interesting [...]
WhitePages.com Turning into Quasi Wiki
WhitePages.com said it is going to allow users to update, alter and enhance their listings as it morphs into a “people search” engine. From today’s press release: In 2008, WhitePages.com is committed to adding a number of significant enhancements to its people search service. The new user generated content capability will eventually allow consumers to [...]
About Greg
Greg Sterling is the founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence (SMI), a consulting and research firm focused on the Internet's influence on offline consumer purchase behavior.
