April 22nd, 2013

Biz Stone Introduces His Jelly Co-Founder And CTO, Fluther’s Ben Finkel

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As we reported a few weeks ago, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is up to something new, and it’s called Jelly. Not much is known about it other than it’s a mobile-focused project. Stone shared a little bit more about the project today, introducing Ben Finkel as his co-founder. The two have something in common, time spent at Twitter, as Finkel was a co-founder of Fluther, a social Q&A… → Read More

December 21st, 2010

Q: Why Did Twitter Acqhire Fluther? A: "Search Is Mature," Social Q&A Is Still "Wide Open"

People already ask a lot of questions on Twitter, but it is not designed as a structured social Q&A site like Quora. But that may change judging by a talent acquisition of the team at Fluther, a social Q&A service founded in 2007 that raised $600,000 from Ron Conway, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Naval Ravikant. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Twitter did not buy the… → Read More

August 9th, 2010

Federated Fluther Lets Third Parties Integrate Q&A With A Few Lines Of Code

Q&A services have been generating quite a bit of buzz lately, first with hot startup Quora, and more recently, the launch of Facebook Questions. Now Fluther, a Q&A startup that launched back in 2007, is looking to help even more sites capitalize on this trend. Today the company is launching Federated Fluther, a distributed service that allows third parties to offer Q&A with a… → Read More

September 24th, 2009

Fluther Raises $600k From Top Valley Investors For Crowd-Sourced Answers

Fluther, a slick service that lets you outsource your questions to other members on the web, has closed a $600k round of seed funding from some of Silicon Valley’s most notable investors. Included in the round were Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Dave McClure, via FF Angel. Rounding out the roster are Twitter’s Biz Stone and Leonard Speiser (Bix, Twables founder)… → Read More