The Times Online is reporting on a unique FaceBook group that is being used to contact blood donors to let them know what blood types are needed and the locations that are in need of the blood.

A New York charity called Takes All Types collects information about the blood types that are needed in which areas, and sends out alerts to registered Facebook users who may be suitable blood donors.

Ben Bergman is a New-York-based recruiter set up the blood donor group and said that it has immediately attracted the interest of hospitals and blood banks.

Facebook.com now has over 38 million registered people that can be potential contacts for blood drive efforts.

Source: Times Online

Now you can get live help with your people searches on PeopleFinderChat.com.

People Finder Chat has launched a live free people search and help service online.

Users can chat online with a live person, who will provide tips, advice and search options to help them find a person from their past, like: friends, family, coworkers, classmates, military buddies etc.

The People Finder Chat is free for anyone to use, as long as the service is online and not busy helping other individuals.

Users can discuss who they are looking for as well as get strategies and search suggestions for finding that person.

The service is available during scheduled time slots as well as unscheduled times. As the site becomes more popular, available times are likely to be extended to help more people.

Whereas most other free people search sites offer a list of directory-style links, People Finder Chat aims to be different by providing live person-to-person search help.

If you are trying to find a person, give it a try.

A new social networking website, Gypsii.com, has developed a new people search application to track and find your friends’ locations, using cellphone technology, maps and social networks like Facebook.com.

The software allows people to pinpoint a person’s exact location in real time, using mobile phone technology as a tracking device.

Gypsii.com launched this week at a phone industry trade show in Barcelona, Spain with a service that allows people to search for and identify the locations of their friends, family and network contacts around the world.

The people finder software, currently available only for high-end cell phones, allows users to find people and locations in any area, as well as share pictures, video clips and audio files with their friends and social network globally.

Gypsii is compatible with social network websites, by allowing the location-specific functionality of a person’s cell phone to be sent to a user’s Facebook.com page, plotting their friends’ as well as their own personal location.

Some technology analysts admit that some people will be turned off at the thought of being watched, tracked or monitored by another person, even by their friends and family.

The location of a cellphone can be found in two ways:

1. By a GPS chip that allows a device to recognise its location based on communication with satellites.

2. By triangulation when a cellphone sends signals to cellphone towers located around it. By measuring the speed at which signals travel to these different communication stations, a position can be calculated for the person using the cellphone.

According to phone industry experts, cellphones can be searched and located to within a few feet of their position.

Cellphone service providers and software designers are touting services that range from personal navigation to fighting terrorism at the mobile industry’s biggest trade show in Barcelona.

Source: AFP

The Service Members’ Service Relief Act website allows users to search for and verify people on active duty with the US military.

Users of the website can input required information about a person and search the military personnel database. The website will return a “certificate” stating whether or not the Defense Manpower Data Center has information showing the searched person is currently serving on active duty in the US military. There is no fee for the personnel searches.

The Defense Manpower Data Center returns back the personal information entered into the query form by the user; no other personal data on the individual is provided on the certificate.

You can search for people on the Defense Manpower Data Center website at: Defense Manpower Data Center People Search.

For more detailed information on doing a people search on the DMDC site, please see their help page.

Skipease.com has put together 25 of the best free people search tips to help you find a person online, using various people search engines and finder sites.

You can use the people search tips below to help you find past friends, family, classmates, coworkers, military buddies etc —

People Search Tips.

People search topics include:

- Collecting your search information.

- Tips from professional people finders.

- Using 411 Whitepages and directory assistance searches.

- ZabaSearch.com free people search.

- ZoomInfo’s employment people search.

- Using social networks to find people.

- Using Spock.com and Wink.com to find a person free.

- Using blog search engines to locate people.

- Posting to Craigslist.com to help in your people search.

- Using reverse address lookups and reverse phone number lookup searches.

- How to do a free reverse cell phone lookup search online.

- The best way to do a free reverse eMail address lookup search online.

- Running a nearby or neighbor search to help you find a person.

- Finding and contacting possible relatives.

- Contacting know friends or associates of the person.

- Inmate locators and searches.

- Military locators.

- How to find out a person’s forwarding address.

- Using the Google search engine to find people.

- Using Google’s map search to search for people.

- Using Yahoo or Google Image search engines to locate a person.

- Using social security death indexes to find out if a person is deceased.

- Using free online public records searches to find people.