Q&A

Facebook has a thundering presence on the web with about 500 million users and counting, scores of visitors actually spending time on Facebook all day long. Isn’t it time for it to pitch direct competition to answers.com, Quora and Yahoo! Answers? Isn’t Facebook almost naked without having anything to do with a Q & A site given its popularity and a high traffic scene? I guess it’s time to get into the game now and here’s why I think Facebook should hop right in: (more…)

Previously, I wrote about Experts-exchange and discussed how well-structured the site was and how it proves to be quite a place to go to get your technical problems solved. Focus is a busy site with almost the same kind of emphasis on technology and happens to have a Q &A section which seems to be just as robust as Experts-exchange. However, there are differences too. Here are some of them:
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After dwelling on Q & A sites for a while now, I was out searching for something that can make some more noise than the usual; I was looking for the sizzle, the steak and a dinner set to eat it all with. I stumbled on Experience Project – a truly, well-rounded, a –lot-more-than-a-Q and A-site. In love at first sight, I could help but notice the subtle ways in which experience project does more than just answer questions. Here are five different things experience project boasts of: (more…)

While some question and answer sites rest on the cushion created by their popularity, sheer fame, heavy traffic and wide-spread usage by users from all over the world, there are still some specialty Q & A sites that are immensely popular but might not seem to be at first glance. (more…)

When interacting with like-minded netizens on Q &A sites and forums, your presence on the Internet is anonymous; you could hop in, write out something and vanish and no one would know. You will, however, still leave a mark behind. You might bail someone out of a problem. For all you know, your presence on these Q &A sites or forums is highly appreciated. But are you providing value while on a Q &A site? There are plenty of lessons we could pick from super successful Q &A sites or forums: (more…)

With Aardvark having been bought by Google at the beginning of the year and new Q & A site Quora looking set to launch fully in the near future; are community based question and answer sites the way forward?

Mobile Computing News recently published an article with a quick overview of these two sites and their views for the future. You can read the article here, alternatively here’s my quick overview of their quick overview. (more…)

We have always been talking about joining other Q & A sites to ask questions or to answer them. But did you ever fancy building a Q & A site for yourself? Why, you might ask? If you have a business of your own, then a Q & A site could help you build a community around your products and services. Further, by involving yourself actively on your hub, you tend to establish expertise and develop trust within your potential readers. Additionally, all this content being generated can add to your Search Optimizing efforts. (more…)

Trueknowledge – an Internet search company based in England – recently got my attention because it seems that it can beat any ordinary Q & A site hands down. Can that really happen? Would Q & A behemoths like Answerbag and Yahoo! Answers lose the game? While it’s a bit too early to come to any conclusion, it’s certainly apparent that Trueknowledge is doing wonderful things out there. (more…)

Have you ever been stuck somewhere miles from your PC, with a really pressing question that you just have to know the answer to right now??? I’m sure it’s a very common occurrence.

Well your worries are over.  Following in the footsteps of 63336 (formerly AQA) Answers.com has released a new mobile web version of their site. You can now both ask and answer questions direct from your iPhone, Android OS phone or other handheld device.  While not an actual ‘app’ if you type answers.com into your phone’s browser it will take you to a clean looking, smartly designed mobile site. (more…)

One of last week’s blogs was all about Facebook and their new ‘killer app’, Facebook Questions. A select few had been enrolled to Beta test the application and one of the testers in New Zealand had been tracked down and had given a short overview of his experience so far. This week it seems the tester role has been opened up to all and sundry. (more…)