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The daughter of famed Patterson, New Jersey high school principal Joe Clark (memorably dramatized in the film Lean on Me), Joetta shares her father’s passion for inspiring youth, and motivating people of all ages to realize their fullest potentials. She spreads her message of positivity and good health through her own Joetta Clark Diggs Sports Foundation, as well as her many appearances as a highly sought after public speaker.
Over at Joetta’s PeekYou profile you will find links to her websites, charities, social networking profiles, mentions throughout the news and sports media, and well beyond. Click here and give it a look.
Our technical team will be performing scheduled site maintenance on October 15, 2011 between 3am EST and 7am EST. We don’t expect any problems with the website per se, but wanted to make sure our users and fans know that we may have some downtime (we are predicting a maximum of 10-15 minutes if it actually happens). Stay tuned to the PeekYou Blog for updates and additional information and thanks for your understanding!
PeekScore is a number from one to ten which quantifies, at a glance, an individual’s online prominence, or “digital footprint.” An individual’s PeekScore will grow or shrink depending upon the quantity of information he or she makes publicly available on the Web during a given period of time.
Increasing your PeekScore is rather simple. The more content you share and provide online, the higher your PeekScore will be. While many public figures will have large PeekScores without having to directly contribute much to their digital footprints, for the vast majority of individuals the size of their PeekScore is almost entirely within their own control.
Below is a condensed list of different ways one can increase his or her PeekScore:
Own a domain and maintain a website, either personal or business-related.
Be open and active on social networks, as a public social media presence will impact your PeekScore positively and directly. The sizes of your various audiences at social media will also influence your score.
Maintain multiple social network accounts. The more accounts you are publicly active on, the higher your score.
Start a public blog and update it with new posts frequently.
And it must be noted, while not relevant to all, that IMDB profiles, Wikipedia entries, and any and all mentions throughout the news media and blogosphere can also positively, and at times profoundly, impact one’s PeekScore.
In today’s Washington Post, PeekYou’s General Manager of Product, Josh Mackey, was quoted in an article about Google’s newly unveiled Google Wallet. You can check out the story here.
Today, PeekYou’s CEO Michael Hussey, GM of Product Josh Mackey and GM of PeekYou.com Raj Ajrawat were featured on www.semanticweb.com regarding PeekYou’s search engine technology, our matching algorithm and the vision for PeekYou in the future. Here is a small excerpt from the article:
“Using public data on the Web, the company has been building an index matching URLs to individuals. That is, it has developed its own algorithm to look at web pages for specific things that help it identify whether that data is associated with a particular individual – real names or user names, outbound links to other social sites or blogs, work or school affiliations, for example. To accomplish that, it has to be smart enough to match to an individual a LinkedIn profile that lists the user’s region with a Myspace one that includes the user’s city but not region – oh, and let’s raise the stakes by doing it for individuals with common names like John Smith. Some 50 or 60 queries might have to be run to match up and two given URLs.”
To read the entire article by Jennifer Zaino, head over to www.semanticweb.com.
Over the next few months, PeekYou will be rolling out a series of blog posts known as the “PeekYou Education Series.” Our goal with these posts is to give our users the ability to understand how search engines like PeekYou find public information online and to raise the general level of awareness that users should have when it comes to the information that we share and consume everyday. We feel that many times our users and other individuals across the web do not necessarily understand how keeping their privacy settings open, or sending out a tweet to the public web, can be picked up by various sources across the web. All of us here at PeekYou feel its important that users get as much education and information as possible about how all of these various components of the web work, allowing them to make a better, more educated decision when it comes to sharing information online and posting information to the public web.
This series was sparked by the comments and feedback from users that we receive everyday, mostly from users who are upset or shocked to find so much information about themselves in one location. While we think it is not a bad thing at all to be public and to share your information with others freely, we want to ensure (through these posts) that consumers and users have the tools and knowledge to navigate the online world. After all, knowledge is power, and we want to empower our users with information.
Further to this point, we also see a big shift happening online, whereby people are starting to recognize “Identity” as being separate by connected to “Privacy”: You can have a robust online identity and yet still remain private in many ways. This shift happening across the web is one of the reasons our CEO Michael Hussey and our GM of Product Josh Mackey recently attended the PII 2011 Conference (privacy identity innovation) in San Francisco, CA last week.
Stay tuned for more posts in the PeekYou Education Series that will be going on throughout the summer. Feel free to engage with us through Twitter and our Facebook page, as well as our blog.
For the past couple of days PeekYou’s CEO, Michael Hussey, and Josh Mackey, our General Manager of Business and Product Development, have been in San Francisco attending the pii2011 (privacy identity innovation) conference. While there, Mike and Josh have had the incredible opportunity to meet with the leaders of other companies who share PeekYou’s commitment to providing consumers with more control over their personal information, as well as sharing our dedication to better educating users about who can see what they put online, and where it can wind up. Whether consumers want to increase their online presence or remain largely anonymous, we believe that choice should be their own. Mike and Josh have been heartened to be spending face-to-face time with others in our industry who share this vision. All of us here at PeekYou are looking forward to continuing, deepening, and acting upon the discussions initiated this week, and in the weeks and months ahead even more intensely focusing our energies on increasing consumer choice and awareness, in the areas of online privacy and beyond.
For more information about PeekYou and the conference, follow Mike and Josh on Twitter!
Today, PeekYou’s CEO Michael Hussey was featured in the eCommerce Times regarding Google’s newer and more social upgrade to the Google Docs suite of products. Michael pointed out that it was a wise move for Google, especially given Microsoft’s dominance in the Office Productivity Suite of software (MS Office), stating, “Anything that Google can do to make Docs more collaborative it has to do to stay competitive with Microsoft.” He also adds, “This is a natural evolution for collaboration because of the number of people who work online, who work in remote locations, and who work in larger and larger groups.” Google’s move to go more social is not surprising of course, seeing as how that’s what everyone is doing these days.
You will notice today that we have implemented changes to our footer’s design and layout at www.peekyou.com. The new footer has some new sections, such as “Top Search by Profession”, “Popular Searches,” “About PeekYou,” and “Peek by Country.” Each of these sections serves a specific function to our users. Our main goal was to simply clean up the look and feel of the footer, thereby making it easy for our users to navigate through page content that we have and also discover more information that we have on our site.
Let us know what you think. Do you like the new footer?
