I was asked recently by a former colleague why I “ended up” working on a site like Coolspotters when anyone looking at this blog would put “celebrities” at the bottom of my list of interests. I never write about them, right?
The fact of the matter is that, it’s true I don’t really care about what Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson are up to today, nor do I have any particular interest in what sunglasses Paris Hilton owns. Like most Americans, however, I do pay attention when celebrities and things I do have an interest in connect, because I’m a fan like most everyone else, and, as most of you know, I do watch movies and TV and have favorite stars, bands, etc.
So, Coolspotters to me is about more than fashion and celebrities, even though that’s a big, big part of it. I save links to it when I see things like the charity work Angelina Jolie is doing or the fact that Barack Obama drives an SUV (though a hybrid) and a gas guzzling Chrysler (come on, Barack!). I’ve also been keeping an eye on the Tesla Roadster and who’s buying or test driving it. I want one, and it will be the only extravagant thing I splurge on if I make it rich one day. Gotta see what the folks who can afford it today are saying in case I should wait for the cheaper Fisker Karma.
The technology vision behind Coolspotters is also a big draw for me. We haven’t really talked about it much on the Fanzter blog, but there’s a lot of details going on behind the scenes that go toward building a good, open site like Coolspotters. I’ll write more about this on the Fanzter blog soon, so keep an eye out. There’s more to the site than what you see today, and hopefully in a month or two, you’ll start seeing the next iteration of our tools and technology on the site. (odd factoid: I’m tracking the word ‘coolspotters’ in blogs and the news and only one site so far has even touched on the technical dream here…)
One last random thing: as some of you know, finding out about the music behind the commercials, TV, and movies you see are a particular passion of mine. It’s no accident that commercials and music are categories on Coolspotters.
That’s the great thing about the platform we’re building. There’s a lot of things it can do, and where it ends up going is up to the users who show up and shape the site. Stop on by. 
