Q&A Social Site for African-Americans EbonyQA.com to Launch in Beta
EbonyQA.com, the Q&A social connecting site for African-Americans to post and answer questions unique to their own community will be launching in beta soon. The site is very similar to Quora.com, but focuses specifically on African-American issues. EbonyQA will connect users with hard to find questions and answers unique to the black community. Users will [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 5-27-2011
Microsoft Gets $5 Everytime HTC Sells an Android Phone Windows Phone 7 may not be the hottest mobile platform out right now, but at least Microsoft can make some change off Android. Wait…What?! According to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, this is exactly what’s happening. Microsoft makes 5 bucks for every Android device sold by HTC. [...]
Read MoreGoogle Adds Quora, Gowalla, and Others to Realtime Search
Google Realtime Search just got a lot more useful with the addition of results from services like Quora, Gowalla, Facebook, and a few others. The additional services came yesterday with no official announcement from Google. Other services added include (but may not be limited to): Plixi, Me2day, and Twitgoo. The discovery was made in a [...]
Read MoreFive Ways Bloggers Can Use Quora
Over the last few weeks, the social networking site Quora has earned thousands of new fans. The site is “a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.” Here is what the site had to say about their purpose: One way you can think of it is [...]
Read MoreFormspring Raises $11 Million and Launches Respond Button
Formspring, the social website that has everyone saying “Ask me anything,” has just closed an $11.5 million round of funding. In addition, they’ve added a new “respond” feature for publishers. The website has blown up since becoming a sensation last year behind CEO/Founder Ade Olonoh. Formspring currently has 20 million registered users posting 10 million [...]
Read MoreCan Quora Grow Without Sacrificing Quality?
Quora is definitely growing at a fast pace. I know this because of the sudden deluge of follows I’m getting in my email. As Quora becomes more popular and gains users, the fear is that the quality of questions and answers on the service will decline. The site depends on high-quality answers, and has deliberately [...]
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