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Problem-solving. Linkedin. Human Grid Computing. Mark Jeffrey (Mahalo) on the Art of Product Development (session. Announcing O'Reilly Answers - O'Reilly Broadcast. We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers , and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). Why Answers, and why now? O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation. We've created the usual means of facilitating communication between customers, O'Reilly folks, and the outside experts we call "alpha geeks" who contribute to O'Reilly books, conferences, and websites. We can connect through reader reviews, errata submissions, book forums, blog comments, Get Satisfaction, our customer service department, and more.

But too much of this conversation is siloed, and not enough is public (e.g., discussions on our internal mailing list for editors, or personal responses to customer questions). Why participate? This is just v.1. Aardvark. Social computation and creativity » Blog Archive » Google Answer.

Google announced today about the launch of beta version of its Q&A service (used to be Google Answers, see my previous post Google says adieu to Google Answers from November last year). Today we are launching the beta version of “Questions and Answers”. The new Google service, where you can ask a difficult question on the topic interesting to you, get an answer from other users, and can earn points, responding to other people’s questions. Or you can just chat with smart people :). We are particularly pleased to announce that Russia — the world’s first country where we are launching this service; It is not even available for English language users.

It is remarkable that Google had chosen Russia to test the new service, as Russia is the country where the concept of this kind of service originated. For me as a researcher, the most interesting were the details of implementation of the new Google service and how they differ from the existing services. Google encourages users to visit often.