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Skills.to Searches Personal Endorsements
- ReadWriteWeb, Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:03 PM
Discovering that endorsements aren’t just for pro-athletes, ReadWriteWeb looks into Skills.to -- a new people endorser and search engine. “The site lets you endorse people for their skills in various fields, see what the people you know have been endorsed for and search for people with particular skills,” RRW reports. In the words of founder Joshua Schachter, Skills.to is a: "Search engine for people by property of the person … Portable reputation someday."
Yet, Schachter admits that the start-up is far from scaling. "We have a lot to do, lots of ideas here and lots of places we can go next," Schachter tells RRW. Best-known for building social bookmarking site Delicious -- before selling it to Yahoo – Schachter now heads a team of development at social software startup TastyLabs. “There's certainly something refreshingly Delicious-like about [Skills.to], the way you can navigate around the site by clicking any link and navigating by a few simple properties,” RRW remarks.
“Lots of people have tried to create a discovery-through-endorsement Web site, but I'd be willing to bet that the TastyLabs team is going to bring some extra special insight and creativity to this seemingly simple space.”
