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Before & After iOS 7: How Your Favorite Apps Are Changing
Flat. With one word, Apple didn’t just change its look on mobile, but mandated an industry-wide face-lift. With iOS 7’s launch later today, chrome, navigation buttons, and textured title bars are getting replaced with more content, gesture-controlled navigation, and single-colored panels. Here’s are some before and after look at the redesigns of the top iOS app launching… Read More
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Growth Product Manager Erin Teague Leaves Path For Quora
Erin Teague, a product manager for growth at Path, is leaving for the same position at Quora, as first reported by AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes. At Quora, Teague replaces Andrew Johns, who left in July to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Greylock Partners. Read More
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Quora Brings Full-Text Search To Mobile To Unlock FAQ&As For Any Keyword
Quora’s library of knowledge has been trapped behind inadequate topic search, but now any keyword generates a list of frequently asked questions and answers about the subject thanks to today’s launch of full-text search on iOS and Android, and its web debut in March. Search became crucial as Quora usage is up 3X this year and it has grown to 350,000 topics, each with too many… Read More
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Quora Grew More Than 3X Across All Metrics In The Past Year
Quora famously doesn’t share its growth numbers. Due to this furtiveness, many people speculate that it is not growing. On Quora even: Has Quora as a business failed? is a Quora question that smacked me in the face right as I opened the site to research this article. Read More
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Quora Snags John Hegeman From Facebook To Lead Its Engineering Efforts
We’ve just gotten word that Facebook’s Director of Engineering for Ads, John Hegeman, will be moving to Quora to lead the Quora engineering team. While I haven’t received direct confirmation from either Quora or Hegeman on the hire, Hegeman has apparently confirmed the move on his (private) Facebook Timeline according to a tipster, writing: Read More
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HealthTap’s Q&A Service Sees 7.5M Uniques Per Month, With MDs Spending An Hour Per Session Providing 581M Answers
When you have a health question, what do you do? Likelihood is that you either search Google for the answer, WebMD, try to call your doctor, or set up an appointment. For most people, the latter two options would be preferable, because, after all, you’re more likely to trust a human being than Dr. Robot or some crowdsourced health resource. Read More
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With 2B Questions Answered, Q&A Vet ChaCha Gets Another $14M To Be The Quora For The Common Man [Video]
The online question-and-answer market has had a lot of different iterations over the years, starting out first with sites focused on everyday, practical knowledge and trivia and later expanding — by way of sites like Quora and Branch — into longer discourses on bigger issues. Today, ChaCha, one of the earliest movers in Q&A, is announcing that it is raising another $14 million… Read More
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Quora Launches Blogging Platform With Mobile Text Editor To Give Every Author A Built-In Audience
The Internet is full of experts with no one reading their insights. It takes a lot of work to build a following. So today Quora launches a blogging platform that automatically distributes posts to its Q&A site users who follow related topics. Thanks to its upvote system, home page feed, and a new mobile text editor, anyone with something brilliant to blog, even first-timers, can find a… Read More
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Quora Plans To Expand Beyond Q&A, Hints Blogging Platform Could Give Anyone An Audience
“Today Quora is largely questions and answers, but that is not the ideal format for all knowledge. Other formats will gradually be added as we scale up”, Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo wrote yesterday on the company blog. The clarification of Quora’s mission statement also expressed the site’s intention to give an audience to people who have insight but… Read More
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Responsa Is Disqus For Company FAQs
Responsa is a tool for adding interactive FAQs (frequently asked questions) to your company website through an embedded widget. That sounded more like a feature than a business to me — after all, help desk applications like Zendesk and GetSatisfaction already have knowledge management systems for handling FAQs. But founder and CEO Gabriele Antoniazzi says that not everyone needs such… Read More
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AMAs, A2As, And The Growth Of Tech-Enabled Political Discourse
Editor’s note: Jon Bischke is a founder of Entelo and is an advisor to several startups. In the interest of full disclosure, the author is a National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O). You can follow Jon on Twitter here. It’s election season again and 2012 is likely to be remembered for many things, one of which is the amount of money spent on political advertising. Read More
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Quora Arrives on Android, Complete With Voice Search, Widgets And A Deep Search Integration
After a long wait, Quora just arrived on Android today. The knowledge-sharing site from Facebook’s first chief technology officer Adam D’Angelo and early Facebooker Charlie Cheever sees about a quarter of its traffic coming through mobile devices. So like for so many consumer-facing startups, having a first-class mobile experience is becoming more important than… Read More
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Bing Now Surfaces Quora Answers In Its Social Sidebar
Microsoft and Quora just announced a new partnership that will bring content from the popular Q&A site to Bing’s social sidebar. Unlike some of Bing’s other integrations with social networks like Facebook, the Quora integration focuses less on content from your friends and more on bringing content from Quora’s topic experts to Bing. Just like the launch of… Read More
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Quora Is On A Quest For Users With Its New Embeddable Quotes
It’s a shame Quora doesn’t get more traffic considering how fun and informative it is. So to raise awareness, today Quora launches an embeddable quote feature that lets any website host its content. The embeds make citation easier, and trackbacks show authors where their questions and answers are ending up. I’ve embedded Quora’s announcement of the feature in this… Read More
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Answer Underground Aims To Be A Mobile-Focused Quora For Education, Hits The iPad This Week
There are some 3.7 billion web searches every month for education-related topics. However, ask a student how easy it is to find answers to their burning academic questions, and they’ll probably just roll their eyes. Sure, there’s Wikipedia, Google (and Google Scholar), Khan Academy and there are even Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers or Answers.com. While Khan is great for videos… Read More
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One Horrifying Account Of Working At Zynga
Divorce, alcoholism, and near worthless stock are the rewards for 12 hour days prepping for a game launch at Zynga, according to one anonymous Quora user who worked there after their company was bought by the gaming giant. The answer was called “butthurt” by one responder. “Sorry you’re not a millionaire after a year of work on a failed product” said another. Read More
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JustAnswer Becomes Pearl.com, Raises $25 Million Series A
Eight-year old JustAnswer.com, which bills itself as a Quora competitor (but looked decidedly less hip), is announcing a rebranding and a new infusion of capital today. The site is becoming Pearl.com, which offers a new front-end to its Q&A service which is now focused on connecting site visitors with vetted professionals. Users will be able to ask questions aimed directly at those who… Read More
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The Timeline Bump: Khan Academy And Quora Latest To Integrate With Facebook’s Open Graph
Last month, Facebook drove 160 million visitors and 1.1 billion visits to third-party apps, an increase of 100 million visitors and 780 million visits from the month prior. And that’s just for third-party mobile apps. Thanks to the size of its user base, and the increasing power of its referral funnel, Facebook now has the ability to take sites from 0 to 60 in a matter of weeks. While… Read More
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Quora Raises $50M At $400M From Peter Thiel, D’Angelo Puts In $20M Of His Own Money
Q&A site Quora has raised $50 million at a $400 million pre-money valuation according to a report by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed to me by the founders themselves. We had reported that Quora was raising in this range back in April and it looks like Facebook board member Peter Thiel has beat out many other investors including a much-rumored KPCB to lead the round. Also investing… Read More
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Quora Employee Answers “Why I Declined An Offer To Work At Instagram” On Quora
Here’s a heart-warming tale of why you can’t second-guess yourself. Robert Cezar Matei had the chance to work for Instagram long-before it was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, but followed his passion for knowledge and became the growth hacker for question & answer site Quora instead. This is his answer on Quora (fittingly) for why he declined Instagram, and why… Read More
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