Q&A

One of the key building blocks to living a healthy life is having a well balanced diet that’s high in vitamins, minerals and proteins, and low in sugars, fats, and carbohydrates. But sometimes our knowledge of health can get a bit foggy. For example, if we definitively knew everything there was to know about maintaining good health, then there wouldn’t be so many diet plans out there. Just one, all encompassing diet that everyone followed. But there isn’t one, so we’re all left to figure out how to keep ourselves healthy, or we can take the more modern route and take to a Q&A site to try to mine the hive mind of Q&A site lovers to try to get some answers.

But sometimes, these diet questions are a little…well, let’s just say “questionable.”

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Some Q & A sites come and go while some make it big. One of the reasons why most Q & A fail is due to the apparent shallow nature of the questions and equally juvenile answers –the discussions are not deep enough, not engaging enough, vague or stale. Either the discussions should be highly targeted like it happens on some of the niche Q &A sites or the Q &A site must enjoy really high traffic hits like Yahoo! Answers. There are some high profile Q &A sites you should take note of though. Continue Reading…

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. Continue Reading…

There are plenty of Q &A sites and a never ending surge of Internet users going social, asking questions out in the open and waiting for answers to flow through.  If you just care to look through, you have questions being asked on anything from gardening to dating with business in between. While most of the big Q & A sites like Answerbag, Blurtit, Askville and Yahoo! Answers are fairly general sites sorted categorically, there are some Q & A sites worth mentioning that focus tightly on very specific niches – specific people looking for specific answers. Continue Reading…

Question and answer sites are a great place to learn and discover new perspectives and ideas, as well as a great place to just get some friendly advice from one (or many) of the millions of users out there that make up this large interconnected entanglement of the inquisitive and the knowledgeable.

This doesn’t always mean that the inquisitive and the knowledgeable are the ones always asking the questions. Sometimes on Q&A sites, one is liable to come across a truly head scratching question — one that can’t possibly be serious…or is it? Who knows, really? Regardless of that, though, they’re usually the most entertaining question of the bunch you’ve read that day. Continue Reading…

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. Continue Reading…

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. Continue Reading…

Question and answer site FunAdvice.com have launched their all new 3.0 version nicknamed Serendipity.

On 16^th May 2010 FunAdvice announced that the migration was in progress and that certain features such as posting and logins were unavailable until the transition was completed.  Although no further blog posts have been published, having visited the site this morning and logging in without issue it seems that the launch has been successful. Continue Reading…

Over the past few months there have been tales of Facebook launching their own Questions application where users can ask their friends and friends of friends for answers to any question they like. It appears now that the application has been launched to certain Facebook networks for Beta testing. Continue Reading…

According to Question and Answer site Answerbag: ‘Polls allow you to get the Answerbag community’s opinion on your question’ and recently Answerbag has announced a new function regarding their ‘Polls’ application; you can now create a poll on Answerbag and share it with your friends on Facebook. You simply ask a question that you want peoples’ views on; give a selection of answers and then all you then have to do is click on the share button and you can instantly post on to your Facebook friends’ walls with your query. Continue Reading…