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- Keywords: techcrunch50, tc50, wisdom-of-crowds, semantic-search, memetics, read-write-web
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Y Combinator's SocialBrowse Launches To The Public
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TechCrunch50 Session 2: Memes & News
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Company

- Company Name: DotSpots
- Homepage: http://www.dotspots.com
- Blog: http://blog.dotspots.com
- Category: public_relations
- Number of Employees: 9
- Founded: Sep-2007
- Tags: techcrunch50, tc50, wisdom-of-crowds, semantic-search, memetics, read-write-web
- Overview:
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DotSpots is a service that enables anyone to update the news in real-time with dots, or distributed objects of thought: mini-blog posts containing text, videos, images, documents, perspectives from the blogosphere, or eye-witness accounts from the scene.
These dots appear as a stream of high-quality user-generated editorial content directly in-context of all relevant articles across the web, where they are rated and vetted for usefulness by readers — the wisdom of crowds.
As a result, news sites gain comprehensive coverage for each breaking story without incurring additional cost, readers get to see multiple perspectives and eye-witness media without extra effort, and worthy alternative view-points from the blogosphere are given the mainstream exposure they deserve, in near real-time.
| Name | Title |
| Naval Ravikant | Advisor |
| Name | Title |
| Matt Mastracci | Founder |
| Navid Aslani | Founder |







