Leena Rao is currently working as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school Medill School of journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007 she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney advocacy and community relations in New York. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where it was ... ? Read More
We've been waiting for delicious founder Joshua Schacter debut secret product goes out of its newest launch delicious Labs. And now the wait is over with the debut of a Jig, Q&A meets the recommendations of the site.
As fellow co-founder Nick Nguyen writes on the blog our Jig Jig is a website that will help you with your needs – by making it easy to share them with people who can help solve them. We have built a Jig to make it easy to describe what you need just a few words.
On a Jig, you can and try to find something "necessary" to help someone to find what they need to meet the needs of search by keyword or offer other help solve a problem or satisfy the demand. For example, you can place the need for Jig community (that is, I need a new design for my website, I need a new logo, etc.) and then members can propose solutions, or invite a friend to help.
You can log in to Twitter and Facebook to fill your social graph, create a profile with your personal information and follow the people on a Jig, like Quora. You can also specify your ' accessories ', which allows you to connect a group of users something in common with you. It is essentially a group function in the platform.
The site is fairly simple in design and functionality, but obviously this is only the beginning for Jig. As Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson notes Jig "the market needs of the people of things." Obviously this can evolve in many ways.
Delicious Labs raises $ 3 million in funding from Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and unnamed Angel investors.
Delicious Labs is founded by Joshua Schachter, founder of Delicious, and ex-googler Paul Rademacher and former Director of the Mozilla Add-ons, Nick Nguyen. Delicious Labs ...
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