LinkCloud - free visual linking. Stack Overflow, Now Stack Exchange Inc, Raises $12M From Union Square Ventures And Others. Fluther: Tap the Collective. Social Bookmarking Websites. (8) Home - Quora. Healthysparx. Formspring Wants a Place Next to Twitter and Facebook Buttons. Formspring has announced $11.5 million in new funding, confirming earlier reports that the popular questions and answers service had taken on significant new capital from lead investor Redpoint Ventures.
The company has also revealed a big new way to grow its audience: a button, called "Respond," that publishers can use to ask questions on their website. As the name suggests, it lets visitors respond to a question posed by the publisher. Ask.com Brings Q&A and Personalization to Web Search. A fraction of the queries entered into a search engine will find an answer that already exists on the web.
But in an attempt to offer users even more answers — and continue to build on its re-launch as a Q&A community — Ask.com will be launching a more social search, including personalized browsing. The 15-year-old search engine differentiates its question and answer community from more recent startups in the space, like Quora, by directing users' questions to experts — rather than leaving the answers up to the whole community — and by identifying users' interests through their LinkedIn or Facebook profiles.