Posted in Pre-launch,Spot Us News by Digidave on September 26th, 2008

First look at Spot.Us in Action

This morning I had an early video chat with the developers of spot.us. I did a video capture of the conversation, which included demonstrating the basic action of spot.us for the first time.

The site isn’t complete. As you’ll hear me say near the end, this is just the CORE of the site. That includes.

  • Community members creating and pledging towards “tips.”
  • Reporters creating pitches and collecting donations.
  • Searching for tips and pitches.

Of course – this is just the beginning. But it gives you a sense of the progress we are making. The next two weeks will hopefully build this out.

  • Allow reporters to attach a tip to a pitch (essentially reporters can “ping” groups of tip pledges to let them know about their pitch).
  • The publishing aspect of all this
  • LOTS MORE.

To get a sense of how all this is happening (and to see spot.us in action) watch the video below.

[blip.tv ?posts_id=1304232&dest=-1]

(much love to Hashrocket for being open to such radical transparency along with me!)

Related posts:

  1. Spot.Us is Hiring, Sorta: Time to Find Some Reporters
  2. Launching The Spot.Us Ship: Community Funded Reporting
  3. Improving the Spot.Us platform and Improving the Pitch
  4. First Sketches of Spot.Us – Got Design?
  5. Spot.Us Gets Mini-Facelift & Designs to Share!

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  1. Greg J. Smith said, on September 26th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    Lookin’ good. :)

  2. Aronado said, on September 29th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    hola!! Good luck guys…look forward to interviewing you.

    cheers,

    Aronado

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