Toolkit
Addition
ToolKit:
Finding People
Bookmark
this one! Here's a solid list of resources (and forms) for finding
people online
AT&T Toll-Free
Number Directory
This directory
provides all of AT&T's toll-free numbers, so therefore does not
include all toll-free numbers. To look for a company by category,
try the listing here.
Bigfoot
Directory
A global email directory, with phone numbers and addresses for the
United States. Put in as little information as you want, but try to
narrow your search as much as possible.
BigYellow
Search BigYellow. You'll find more than 70 million residential listings
here! Enter as much or as little information as you want. All fields
are optional.
BzNetUSA
This service allows reporters to speak with experts at business schools.
CCSO
Phonebook
Search through 325 university and organization phone and email directories.
It prompts you first for an org from the page, then for a person.
Four11
A huge, White Pages-style email address and phone-number directory.
It's easy to use, and (most of the time) it gets the job done. It
also gives you a chance to say "411." Enter as much or as little information
as you want - all fields are optional.
InfoSpace
National phone directories for people and businesses. Also, fax
directory, blue
pages for government, city profiles under MyTown,
along with maps for each listing. Use the forms below to search phone
directories within the US, or go to InfoSpace
to look up someone in Canada.
Search for
the phone number of a person:
Internet
Address Finder
Five and a half million email addresses, indexed by DoubleClick. The
search form can be a little finicky, but it lets you use * as a wildcard
character. The "Last name" field is always necessary.
Middlebury
College's Phonebook Search
Otis Gospodnetic has designed this interface to search through hundreds
of international university phone books. It's as easy as plugging
names into a Web form.
Notre
Dame Gopher Site
Maintained at the University of Notre Dame, this extensive list of
school phone books includes international universities.
ProfNet
The Professors
Network brings the press in contact with experts at universities.
Switchboard
Cool searchable
index of the master list of US telephone White Pages directories.
The vice squad is even using it to track criminals. Go figure.
USC
Experts Directory
Search by subject for phone numbers and email addresses of USC authorities
(who make themselves very available).
WhoWhere?
Search for email addresses, phone numbers, Web pages, and snailmail
addresses. Only the person's name, in any order, is required in the
search form.
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Search Tips
We are getting
tons of phone calls from Recruiters who want to build their own Spiders.
This week we're pointing out the three best books on the subject.
The links take you to Amazon.com where you can order them.
Bots
: The Origin of a New Species
Andrew Leonard
"Is cyberspace
the new primordial ooze in which out-of-control bots are mutating,
multiplying, and engaging in a near-Darwinian struggle to survive?
Where is this escalation heading? This is the first book written
on the subject of bots. It is an in-depth investigation into a new
reality of sky-rocketing complexity, dangerous malfunction, and
masterful malice, drawing a powerful parallel between the biological
and the digital evolution of species." Amazon.com
Hardcover,
224 pages
Published by Hardwired
Publication date: July 1,1999
Bots
and Other Internet Beasties
Joseph Williams
"Among
the recent of swarm of "how-to-build-your-own internet-software-agent"
books. Not heavy on the programming end of things, but a good and
comprehensive overview of the current state of the art (ca. early
1996). The big advantage of this volume is that it was collaboratively
written by 20 agent researchers representing many implementations
and ideological biases. Contains brief but good overviews of the
potential use of Java, Tcl/Tk and Telescript in the creation of
Internet agents, as well as a CD-ROM for NT, Windows, and Win95
containing Java and Tcl/Tk. Even though I mainly work in a UNIX
environment, I've decided to keep a copy in my office at Amazon.com
Books as a handy reference on today's and tomorrow's trajectories
of Internet software agents." Computer Programming Expert
Editor's Recommended Book, 11/01/96
Internet
Agents : Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and 'Bots
Fah-Chun Cheong
"One of
the most dreaded questions in Usenet newsgroups devoted to the World
Wide Web, programming, or MUDs is "How do I write a 'bot, DooD?"
Well, now that Cheong has written Internet Agents, anyone can curl
up with their terminal, a bottle of Jolt, and the Internet, and
roll out their own. Although much of this information is available
on the net, Cheong does a good job of pulling together the heretofore
scattered and sometime occult arcana of arachnology and botology.
Includes sample code for WebWalker, a Web maintenance robot, and
WebShopper, a personal comparison shopping program." Amazon.com
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