http://www.academia.edu is a Facebook/MySpace style site for academics. It launched in alpha version last week.
It's a site where academics can create an academic webpage, and upload their papers and research interests. You can see a sample webpage here: http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice
We have also built a paper-tracking engine that tracks the latest papers uploaded to the web in a given field. You can see the results for Computer Science here: http://cs.academia.edu/categories/2/papers
Academia.edu's founder is Richard Price. Richard's previous ventures include http://www.liveout.co.uk and http://www.peopleradar.com (the #1 Facebook API application - recent page views per day have been around 1 million).
Richard is looking for a technical co-founder to join Academia.edu. He's looking for someone who:
- Is super smart - awesome at problem-solving.
- Is super driven - pushes themselves, and everyone else, to meet high standards.
The site is built in Rails and C#. Knowledge of those is a plus, but not essential.
The team is based in SF. We're offering a significant equity stake, and a competitive salary. We want to be surrounded by super smart people, all of whom are driving each other to create a great product for our users. We'll pay out whatever equity it takes to hire the most brilliant people. If you are interested, please contact [email protected].
It's a site where academics can create an academic webpage, and upload their papers and research interests. You can see a sample webpage here: http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice
We have also built a paper-tracking engine that tracks the latest papers uploaded to the web in a given field. You can see the results for Computer Science here: http://cs.academia.edu/categories/2/papers
Academia.edu's founder is Richard Price. Richard's previous ventures include http://www.liveout.co.uk and http://www.peopleradar.com (the #1 Facebook API application - recent page views per day have been around 1 million).
Richard is looking for a technical co-founder to join Academia.edu. He's looking for someone who:
- Is super smart - awesome at problem-solving.
- Is super driven - pushes themselves, and everyone else, to meet high standards.
The site is built in Rails and C#. Knowledge of those is a plus, but not essential.
The team is based in SF. We're offering a significant equity stake, and a competitive salary. We want to be surrounded by super smart people, all of whom are driving each other to create a great product for our users. We'll pay out whatever equity it takes to hire the most brilliant people. If you are interested, please contact [email protected].