Tag: QUESTIONS

Bots -- like the kind which automate IRC rooms and Google Wave -- are a good thing to know about. There are plenty of useful bots worth knowing about, too, including the Google Talk Guru. Just add guru@googlelabs.com to your GTalk buddies, and you can start firing off questions. Lifehacker suggests that the same types of queries supported by Google SMS will work, though we didn't have any luck ...

Notologist is a simple idea that's beautifully executed. Phil Zelnar leaves pretty paper notes lying around, each one containing a code and a handwritten question. Someone finds the note, goes to the site, enters the code, and writes their reply. The rest of the world gets to see the replies and enjoy the site's beautiful design. This is obviously a PR stunt, but it works. It's a great way for ...

Today we have something different for you. You're not getting add-ons, beta releases or titbits from Mozilla Labs this week -- oh no, instead you're going to be treated to an interview with the Creative Lead of Firefox, Aza Raskin. It's not the frankest interview I've ever conducted -- there's definitely a little coyness; a couple of crinkled, twinkled corneas -- but it's still very ...

Some Facebook users are seeing a new "Questions" feature today, according to AllFacebook. The new feature allows users to ask their friends questions in a format similar to Yahoo! Answers or Quora (a product created by ex-Facebook employees). If you have the new feature, your friends' questions will show up in your sidebar, right above the ads. It's not really clear whether questions will ...

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 ...

Aardvark is a service that using social networking to answer your questions. I've been using it for a while, and it definitely works when you need to find an answer, but using it over IM is a bit annoying. If you're signed up to answer questions, you'll frequently get IMs asking you about things you may or may not know anything about. That's why it's great that Aardvark now has a web interface at ...

Aardvark, a service that uses social networking to find answers to your questions, now has an iPhone app. Aardvark starts with Facebook Connect, finds your friends who are using it, and then branches out into friends of friends and the whole network of Aardvark users. You can ask questions and receive answers via IM or the web. The iPhone version is extra-useful, because questions don't always ...

No, I didn't edit that image, that's actually the first question that pops up on MyMiaMia's flash intro banner. While I'm not certain it's a reference I would make when trying to flog my awesome new web app, it did make me stick around and try it out. It's a slick concept. Visit the website and type in your query, get an answer sent to your email or cell phone via SMS. Your answers will probably ...

PicAnswers is a site to help you find answers to questions that are difficult to explain without some visual aids. Which, seriously, is genius. Like anything else Web 2.0, it is community based, with the community as a whole doing both the asking and the answering. Let's say you've had a painting (or picture of a painting) you've had hang on your wall ever since you were a kid and you suddenly ...

Hoosgot is a little project by the guy that started Tenchorati, David Sifry, who found himself with too much holiday time on his hands as he was reminiscing about the good old days of the LazyWeb. So he decided to put that time to good use and create a site to revive the old spirit as well as make it work with Twitter. It functions like this: you make a Twitter tweet or blog post with either ...

If you need to find out what your spouse wants for dinner, a quick phone call or email will suffice. But if you need to know what's the best place to hold a campaign rally in a city you've never been to, you might want to ask a few hundred or thousand people on your mailing list. But managing the results could be a full time job. That's where CircleUp comes in. CircleUp provides the tools to ask ...

Are you dying to know some answers to a brewing question you have? Get the answers out with PollMappr. There are plenty of online poll generation tools that demand a fee for usage, and a few free ones that tend to stray on the dull side. PollMappr lets users put polls on their blogs, websites or social network. The fun doesn't stop there however, PollMappr maps where on earth the answers are ...

We sometimes like the comfort of getting an answer from a real individual rather than just searching for it in our favorite search engine, and Fluther understands that. Ask a question to Fluther, and they will route it to the appropriate people. With their online service users simply ask a question, that question is sent out to get an answer from people that can help. Not only that, but if you ...

Microsoft has launched Windows Live QnA, an ask-a-question-get-an-answer site in the style of Yahoo! Answers and Google Answers. The site, currently in beta, relies on a reputation system whereby good answers (as determined by the question's original poster) increase your "score." It's got plenty of Web 2.0 trappings, including tags and integration with Windows Live Messenger (in the form of your ...

Faqqly is an online social network community where friends are brought together to trade questions and answers, give and get help, and ideas, and share. It's like MySpace without the crazy inundation of ads, and a little more personal, creating a more authentic service. Faqqlys main goal is to be a sharing community. Not so me-centered like other social networks. Its layout and interface are very ...