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.

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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, hence our full logo on the right here… (no big aspirations, eh?

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!

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