About the company

Location: 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 202 , Boulder, Colorado 80302, United States flags/United States.gif
Founded in: 2008
Stage: Beta (public testing)
Number of employees: 16-30
Funding history:
- Date: 09/2009, Series C: $7.5M
Investors: Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Commonwealth Venture Partner.
- Date: 05/2007, Series B: $15.0M
Investors: Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Commonwealth Venture Partners.
- Date: 06/2006, Series A: $5.3M . Source: Spark Capital and Appian Ventures
Profitable year: 2010
Short URL: http://vator.tv/c/e4a
Profile creation: January 27, 2009
Last updated: December 18, 2009

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Entertainment and Digital Media, Internet Search, Internet Social Media, Internet Web 2.0

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OneRiot

Realtime Search Engine that Indexes the Social Web
Startup/business
flags/United States.gif Colorado, United States
http://www.oneriot.com

OneRiot is the leading realtime search engine. Users search OneRiot to find the news, stories and videos that people are buzzing about right now. Uniquely, OneRiot orders its search results based on PulseRank, reflecting the realtime social buzz around each result. Meanwhile, OneRiot’s RiotWise system is the first ad network for the realtime web. OneRiot launched in November 2008 and is a privately held company headquartered in Boulder, Colo. with offices in San Francisco.

 

Business model

OneRiot will make money through search advertising business model
 

Competitive advantage

Unlike any other search engine on the market today, OneRiot’s results are prioritized based on their realtime popularity, which means fresh, socially-relevant content is always ranked first.
 

Management Bio

Kimbal Musk is CEO of OneRiot, responsible for the company’s business and technological initiatives, as well as heading the day-to-day activities for the company. In 1995, Kimbal started Zip2, an early content management company that was the first to provide maps and door-to-door directions on the Internet. The company was sold in 1999 to Compaq for $307 million in cash, one of the largest transactions of its kind in the Internet industry. After selling Zip2, Kimbal helped to found, advise and invest in several young software and technology companies. He currently sits on the board of directors for SpaceX Corp., Tesla Motors, Keith Glen Media and ProgressNow.org. A graduate of Queen’s University in Canada with a degree in Business Communication and the French Culinary Institute in New York City, Kimball has also served as an Adjunct Professor at New York University.
 

US traffic of OneRiot

US traffic of www.oneriot.com
 
The number of people visiting a site.
Compete ranks the top one million websites in the U.S. based on the number of People the domain attracts each month.
The number of visits made to a site. A person can only be counted as one person in a month, but can make multiple site visits.
The total time spent on a domain as a percentage of the total time spent online by all U.S. internet users.
The number of minutes an average visitor spends on a site during each visit.
The number of pages an average person views on each visit to a domain.

Worldwide traffic of OneRiot

Worldwide traffic for the website www.oneriot.com

Looking for employees

Employee description

http://www.oneriot.com/company/jobs

Sr. Java Server Developer

Main Job Duties:

  • Architect and develop high capacity, highly available servers.
  • Collaborate with developers and operations team

 

Requirements:

  • 10+ years JAVA development experience
  • 2+ years direct search-engine experience
  • Experience building high capacity, high availability production servers
  • Experience with JVMs, memory management and thread debugging
  • Experience with OOP design patterns

 

Desired:

  • Familiarity with Linux
  • Familiarity with Lucene (open source search software)
  • C++
  • Search experience

 

Search Algorithm Developer

Main Job Duties:

  • Work with other technologists to develop search algorithms to improve search
  • Develop qualitative and quantitative models of user behavior
  • Measure and analyze search quality
  • Design tests and analysis to support search product direction, search results improvement and search business goals
  • Become a subject matter expert in social search issues and technologies

 

Requirements:

  • PhD or Master's in math, physics or computer science
  • Passion for developing, testing and refining algorithms for search engines
  • Develops modern training algorithms and cost functions for tuning search engines
  • Real-world experience working with data and algorithms for search engines, indexes or crawlers

 

Software Search Product Manager

Main Job Duties:

  • Coordinate and manage timelines, deliverables and deadlines with product marketing and development teams
  • Coordinate and manage delivery of features with product marketing and development teams
  • Create and track feature backlogs, specifications
  • Responsible for the product lifecycle
  • Provide qualitative and quantitative data on the market
  • Become an expert in the competition and business environment
  • Ensure that products support OneRiot's strategic goals

 

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of software search product management
  • Experience in social networking, search, or websites required. Please outline your background in your cover letter.
  • Ability to build a road map for search engine products
  • Previous experience as a software developer
  • Project management experience
  • Demonstrated success defining and launching amazing products
  • Strong technical background in web applications
  • BS or MS in computer science, business or related field

 

JavaScript Junky

Main Job Duties:

  • Write JavaScript code for browser add-ons, embedded desktop and web applications
  • Unit test all applications
  • Collaborate with other developers to deliver high quality scalable applications

 

Requirements:

  • 3+ years JavaScript development experience
  • Experience with OOP design patterns
  • Strong knowledge of XML, JSON, HTTP, AJAX, and cross browser CSS
  • Experience working on desktop applications

 

Desired:

  • Familiarity with Linux, OSX and Windows
  • C++, Java, WIX
  • Familiarity with one or more frameworks: Wicket, Struts, Tapestry, Spring Web MVC, Dojo

 

 

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