123people brings people search to its iPhone app
Russell E. Perry, CEO of 123people, says all features of the 123people iPhone app can be accessed and he’s right. Features such as a calling or e-mailing straight out of found results and an extremely tight integration with the iPhones Adress book (“Save to Contacts”) makes it potentially pretty useful.
Competitors like Yasni, Pipl or Spock have not yet developed their own iPhone apps which makes 123people’s app currently the only real solution if you want to “stalk” somebody on the go – though location is one thing 123people haven’t cracked. All we need now is an Augmented Reality version with facial recognition and the nightmare would be complete.
When looking at their Compete data, the Startup is hitting 20 Million Uniques/month, so “people search” is not going away soon.
Disclosure: I used to be on 123people’s early team but have no other affiliation with them.