• Forbes, Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:47 PM

As if your companies-to-watch list wasn't long enough, Forbes is insisting that you add one more. "Tasty Labs wants to create a marketplace or forum in which people can state their needs and available talents," Forbes' Quentin Hardy explains.

"By employing relationship and ratings algorithms, the idea runs, Tasty Labs can enable people to satisfy needs from 'a good place for a business dinner' to 'a great Perl programmer' or 'figure out schools selection' by getting tips from trusted sources." Tasty Labs founder Joshua Schachter, inventor of the Delicious social bookmarking service, says it's critical that question responses be targeted. If Schachter can keep his team on track, the company could debut its first iteration in about two months. To date, Tasty has received $3 million from Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz , along with individual investments from the likes of uber angel investor Ron Conway and Digg founder Kevin Rose.

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