Q&A

I saw a random comment someone posted on the Internet a few days ago (but the comment is about a month old) and it claimed that there was this Q &A site which is decidedly different than most other Q &A sites in a lot of ways while the questions and answers themselves remain random – which is expected, of course. I dug in and I realized that the comment was about Fun Advice – one of the fastest growing Q &A sites in the world. Is it really that good? Continue Reading…

It’s interesting to the various angles each Q &A site takes to make it unique compared to plenty of other websites. In the search for such Q &A sites that have a unique slant made me visit AskDeb recently and there was indeed a slant to it – your questions are always answered by a team of professional writers and not just anyone else.  Can professional writers who can answer questions make a difference? What’s the story? Continue Reading…

Getting answers from a real person has never failed to feed our frenzied thirst to know answers to little problems we face and the countless questions we all have collectively. Fluther aims to make it easier to tap into a pool collective knowledge, sourced from thousands of people all “experts” at one thing or the other. Fluther capitalizes on some kind of knowledge each of us has expertise in.  Continue Reading…

There are millions of students all over the world and an uncountable number of people conducting research on the Internet each day. Further, there are thousands of enterprising educators, teachers, lecturers and professors all contemplating, ruminating, thinking, analyzing, and exploring various aspects of science. On top of that, there are uncountable number of people asking an endless stream of questions about.

Answeringenesis.org is just the kind of a Q & A site that has been designed from ground up to cater to a hungry, enterprising and curious set of users all looking to unravel the mysteries of science, unexplored aspects of Theology, Devotion, and God. Continue Reading…

Have you ever been on a Q&A site and lazily perusing the questions and comments when, all of a sudden, you are punched in the face by a question so stupid that you question your faith in the human race? A question that makes you wonder how much time we have life on this earth before we all simultaneously trip on our own shoelaces and break our necks on the side walk? Continue Reading…

Imagine my excitement when on Wednesday morning my inbox was filled with Google alerts telling me Facebook had finally launched its Facebook Questions application! (Yes I do need to get out more).

Then imagine my disappointment when scouring my own Facebook home page and profile I find no mention of Questions anywhere…if only there was some way of asking 500 million people how I can make my life more exciting! Continue Reading…

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: Continue Reading…

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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It seems our beloved question and answer sites aren’t just for us ordinary Joe’s.

Recently former Apple employees Chad Little and Justin Maxwell published posts on Q & A site Quora detailing information on what it was like working for Apple. Chad Little, who now works for Facebook, and Justin Maxwell (Mint.com) replied to a post asking ‘What is the internal culture of Apple like?’ giving away company information such as the benefits package – pretty lacking apparently; security policies – which even limits what you can say to your other half; worker mentality – employees work on an almost religious level of commitment; and the corporate culture – if you’re not working on a project for Steve Jobs don’t expect anything to happen fast . Continue Reading…

What would you get if you combined a website with a professional look, a highly targeted and profitable niche and a great idea? I couldn’t help but think about this killer combination when I stumbled across Experts Exchange– a Q &A site focusing on solving consumers’ problems related to technology.

Whether you are an individual or a small business, infrastructure or equipment breakdown could prove to be expensive. All too often, almost all us would have faced a ‘system crash’, ’malignant software’, unresponsive programs or even the much dreaded ‘blue screen of death’. It always helps to have help standing by. Here are some reasons why Experts Exchange is a great example of another good niche Q &A site: Continue Reading…