Kind of off topic: Finding your corporate alumni

Sean Gallagher points to a fascinating new online database which trawls the Internet and builds profiles of people based on websites, press releases, SEC filings etc.

The Eliyon Corporate Alumni database is currently in beta test and while it’s not perfect, it’s very very interesting.

Search for a company you worked in and it returns people known to have worked there and where else they have worked. All based on data it’s spidered across the web.

It has the potential to waste hours of productive time.