Local startup tech firm outdoes Twitter

SARASOTA — A Sarasota-based startup that offers a digital matchmaking service for businesses, opprtunity.com, picked up several kudos in June from well-read tech blogs and websites.

In fact, one website, Mattermark, ranked opprtunity.com in sixth place worldwide for hottest startup of the week in a report posted June 27. Mattermark.com's weekly momentum rankings look at the growth rate of a company's online footprint, not total traffic. Opprtunity.com, with its sixth-place ranking, even outscored Twitter, which was in 19th place for growth rate. DuckDuckGo, (duckduckgo.com) a search engine that promises more privacy and less spam, was the top-ranked company.

Opprtunity.com also picked up positive press recently from KillerStartups.com, a web portal that offers entrepreneurs information, tools and training. One blogger on the site, in comparing Opprtunity.com to LinkedIn, wrote that “if you're feeling a little worn out by the behemoth that everyone's favorite networking site has become and want something a bit more effective, it's time you checked out Opprtunity.com.”