| Website | dotspots.com |
| Blog | blog.dotspots.com |
| Category | Web |
| Employees | 6 |
| Founded | 9/07 |
| Seed, 9/07 Farhad Mohit The Hit Forge | $300k |
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.
This video was originally published on Beet.TV
Added: 9/15/08
