Conversations of a startup: Mediaspot.me
Co-founder Stavros Rougas let me in on an insider sneak peek of MediaSpot – a website for experts and journalists to connect. You can search MediaSpot’s database of experts by topic or skill, and while it’s still in its prototype stages, I already got some results for a quick skill/topic search on “cooking”. I hope to see him scale this model through an API call to search LinkedIn profiles by keywords.
http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people-search?keywords=Hacker
The project’s similar to instantfounder.com – a co-founder matchmaking service. One of its developers tells me the instantfounder.com project is no longer active, which is a shame because I think they could leverage the network effect if they try seeding their initial community with LinkedIn or matchfounders.com feeds.