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Is "Google Me" Codenamed "Emerald City"? And Why Is Google Baraza Copying Quora?
Follow the yellow brick road… It’s no secret that Google is working on a new social project that is thought to be a layer which will be spread over many…
Nearly Every Single Topic On Quora Now Has A Twitter Account
Early last month, we noted that Quora was doing something rather interesting. They were using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to mass-create Twitter accounts. That may sound shady, but it really isn’t. They’re…
Kommons Launches Quora-Like Platform To Question Public Figures
Leveraging on the success of Quora, niche Q&A sites are popping up everywhere. There’s a Quora for the enterprise, and even a Quora for the legal community. Even Facebook is…
Why Is Quora Mass Creating Twitter Accounts On Mechanical Turk?
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is, among other things, a great place to get cheap labor to perform simple tasks that help black hat SEO efforts and general social network spamming. The…
LawPivot Closes Angel Round For Quora-Like Startup Legal Advice
One thing’s for sure, there’s probably going to be a Quora for every possible niche eventually. The Q&A site meets social network concept is just a great way to spur…
Hottest Stealth Startups [Graphic]
Rumors of “the death of stealth mode” have been greatly exaggerated. Ever since angel investor Chris Dixon tweeted, “New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential…
Why Is Quora Down?
Beloved Q & A site Quora has been spotty all day and is now showing a “503 Service Unavailable” error message when we attempt to access the site. This is…
How Much Does Netflix Spend On Postage Each Year?
If you ask that question on Yahoo Answers, you’ll probably get something about how a husband’s Xbox was once used for Netflix, but now it doesn’t work. If you ask…
If Yahoo Goes Private And Bartz Is Fired, Quora Wins
My love affair with Quora continues. I simply can’t think of another site where so much useful information is being organized so rapidly in one place. You’ve got experts fielding…
Being "First" Versus Being "Best"
Like many people today, I read Jose Antonio Vargas’ 6,000-word profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The New Yorker. Unlike some, I found it neither boring nor damaging, but…
Q: Is Facebook Questions Back? A: Yes (Well, For 0.02% Of You)
A few days ago, we noted that Facebook Questions, one of the service’s latest products, had mysteriously vanished. Naturally, this led to questions on rival service Quora about whether or not…
Cee-Lo's "F*ck You" Ain't Got Nothing On Gaga's "Telephone"
As seen by the entire Internet, the August 19th premiere of Cee-Lo Green’s “Fuck You” will go down in history as the day the phrase “fuck you” became totally benign…
Swingly's Answer Engine Comes Out Of Stealth Swinging And Killing Zombies
An insane number of searches on the web involve people asking questions. Sometimes they’re good questions, sometimes they’re stupid questions, sometimes they’re insane questions. Just start typing something into Google…
Former Facebook CTO: 'Google Me' Is Real, And It's Gunning For Facebook
Yesterday, Digg CEO Kevin Rose tweeted that he’d heard a “huge rumor” that Google was planning to launch a Facebook competitor called “Google Me”, sparking off a wave of speculative…
Quora's Highly Praised Q&A Service Launches To The Public (And The Real Test Begins)
Quora, a Q&A service founded by early Facebook employees that has generated quite a bit of buzz, has launched to the public. The service first made its debut on January…
Are Questions The "Future Of Facebook"?
About a week ago, word started getting out that Facebook is beta testing a new “killer app” called Facebook Questions. For beta testers, the Questions feature appears in the left-hand…
An Inside Look At Facebook Questions, The Next "Killer App" Of Facebook
When word first got out that Facebook was working on a question & answer service, the immediate reaction was that it would a “Quora killer.” That’s an obvious and sexy…
Its Social Product Graph Growing, GDGT Ups The Focus On CMMNTS
The core of gdgt, the gadget database site started last summer by former Engadget leaders Peter Rojas and Ryan Block, is its community. And online, perhaps the most important aspect…
Quora Has The Magic: Benchmark Invests at $86 Million Valuation
Quora, a new startup founded by ex-Facebook employees, has closed a first round of funding, and it’s a big one. Benchmark Capital has led the round and general partner Matt…
Buy And Sell Proprietary Knowledge Through GenApple
People are continually looking for new pieces of information. We go to school, read articles on a variety of subjects, have free websites such as Wikipedia, and use search answer…