Tag: QUESTION-AND-ANSWER

Every morning, as Lee empties the mail bag onto my desk, we pore through cries of help that range from the utterly banal -- "how do i install iTuns???" -- through to truly taxing technical teasers. The fact is, though, no matter how simple the question is, how blatant the answer might be -- "google it!" -- we try to answer them. After all, a problem is a problem. If something prevents you from ...

Urtak is a simple, non-Flash website which lets you craft a survey widget. Each question can be answered with yes, no, or maybe, and once you reply, you get a pie chart illustrating how others replied to the same question. To see how many other people answered a given question you need to hover over the pie diagram (thanks, Aemony!). There is also a nice Javascript animation as you post your ...

You may not have heard of Google's latest purchase, Aardvark, but now it might become mainstream a lot sooner than anyone expected. The basic premise of Aardvark is that you throw a question out into the ether, and it gets answered by a network of people that's chosen based on your social graph, which Aardvark determines using Facebook. You can also sign up to answer questions based on your ...