Yahoo Answers
December 19th, 2005
The latest big social software release, Yahoo Answers is now in beta. Answers is a social, community based question and answer service that allows registered Yahoo users to ask almost any question they want and get an answer back from another member of the community. Like everything else at Yahoo the service is free. The smiley face icons have a 43 Things feel to them, but other than that the service is pretty interesting.
The service is intended to answer day to day subjunctive questions like “Where can I find� or “How do I build�, so don’t expect it to figure out what you are going to do with your life. You can get more nitty gritty detail on the Yahoo Search blog.
On another note, you know I will rant later about the trend of attaching the word beta to everything to take advantage of Web 2.0 glow.
Grayson De Ritis
December 20th, 2005
In regards to the mention of rampant “BETA” lame-ness, I’m reminded of Gmail still proudly displaying “BETA” in the logo. Apparently the trendy thing to do is have BETA plastered on your app/site/whatever it may be, even if it has been successfully running as the flagship version for months, sometimes years!
, Grayson De Ritis BETA
^^^ sorry I had to, heh
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