So I came across a new way to get in touch with people I haven’t (or didn’t want to) talk to in years. No, not myspace, facebook or any number of other social networking sites but a new breed. One that if they can work the kinks out (like the fact that it kept refreshing in firefox) might become the best way to reach out to friends you thought had been abducted by aliens.

PeekYou’s People Search is the latest (and greatest??) web 2.0 way to find people you haven’t heard from. They claim to have over 125 million people listed on their network, and when I searched for a friend from college, I came up with three possible answers, all of which could be the guy, because they’re listed in places I know he’s lived. So Which one is it? And if I message him, will he answer? Who knows. One nice feature is the ability to “track” a person and get updated whenever their information changes. Kind of a digital stalking really.

For S&G (Shoots and Giggles) I decided to plug my name in to the peeker and low and behold, there are at least 10 other Mark Angeli’s with a web presence, however, only one has the avatar I do and all the tags I have entered. It looks like Peek You scours the social network for any information it can glean on you. The things listed for me are all the items I have on my facebook and linkedin profiles, so really, all this does is provide one central place to get the information.

With the numerous sites out there for people to log on to, there does seem to be a need for a “phone book” of sorts and peek you appears to be working on doing that. The site is pretty ajaxy (my new word of the week) and very smoothly laid out (read: web 2.0ish) and like I said outside of the refresh problem making the site almost useless in Firefox (the site is ok in Opera and IE 7) its a pretty cool tool and one I have already bookmarked for future use….