About DotSpots
DotSpots is a universal annotation system that brings the wisdom of crowds to every meme (block of text) on the web, and leverages automatic semantic matching to distribute each contribution to every instance of that meme across the web.
The company is privately funded and always looking to hire smart people.
The first release of DotSpots will focus on improving online news (mainstream media, blogosphere and citizen journalists), by identifying and indexing semantically similar content across millions of news sites and blogs, while empowering bloggers and individuals to annotate text on their local favorite sites with comments, videos and photos. Each local contribution is then instantly distributed globally and filtered by a user voting system that ensures everyone benefits from the best thoughts of those with something to contribute.
In this way bloggers will be able to reach a more mainstream audience, while mainstream media benefits from having the insightful perspective of bloggers available, in context, on each of their articles.
Why DotSpots?
We believe that the more transparency and awareness there is in the world, the better democracy works and the more peace we will have on Earth. The Internet is the best medium we have for raising awareness, but for it to be effective, new platforms and systems are needed to give the power and information to the people. Google and Wikipedia represent two such platforms. We hope that DotSpots will represent one too as it gets going. (no big aspirations, eh? ;)
Who is DotSpots? So far…
- Farhad Mohit (founder of BizRate.com and Shopzilla)
- Matthew Mastracci (StumbleUpon)
- Navid Aslani (General Electric)
- Ryan Perry (StumbleUpon)
- Kai Gradert (Google)
- Brian Long (Amazon)
Where is DotSpots?
We are a totally distributed company. This means that while we were thinking about how to change the world for good, we started by not making everyone drive to one central location, wasting time, money and energy to get to and maintain an office. Instead, we're learning how to work in a completely distributed way. One immediate and wonderful byproduct is that everyone gets to work from home. And, because we don't have office expenses, we even pay a part of every employee's rent or mortgage! (Yes, it's smarter than Google's free cafeteria idea... ;) This will allow us to work with the best people, wherever their home may be in this world!
When is DotSpots?
DotSpots is NOW. We're funded and looking for top-notch people. See our jobs page to see where you'd fit!
