Quora Gets Threaded Comments, Comment Voting, Editing And Images. Q&A site Quora has just unveiled a revamp of its commenting system, the most notable change being the implementation of a threaded commenting feature for the discussions under a question and its subsequent answers. The new threaded comments allow users to reply to specific comments in an answer thread, intuitively by entering text into the Reply box under each comment. In addition Quora now lets users vote on the helpfulness or validity of a comment by clicking on the up arrow and down arrows, just like they do for helpful/unhelpful answers.
As if that weren’t enough (!) , Quora users can now also embed images in comments, and edit a comment in place. Ironic exclamation mark aside, this editing thing is actually pretty cool, eh hem, Facebook. Like Facebook comments, Quora comments require that users be logged in with their real accounts in order to participate in a discussion. Insiders Ride Social Networking to a Big Payday. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News Reid Hoffman, left, chairman of LinkedIn, and Jeff Weiner, the chief executive, at the New York Stock Exchange on May 19. With the hours ticking down to his company’s stock market debut, Mr. Hoffman dialed into a conference call from San Francisco’s Ritz-Carlton hotel as his chief executive, Jeff Weiner, and a team of bankers raced up from Silicon Valley in a black S.U.V. to meet with potential investors.
Demand for shares was intense, and they decided to raise the offering price by $10, to around $45. When trading began on May 19, LinkedIn did not open at $45. Or $55. Now there are signs that a new technology bubble is inflating, this time centered on the narrow niche of social networking. “The LinkedIn I.P.O. will be used very powerfully over the next year as these companies go public and bankers deal with Silicon Valley,” said Peter Thiel, the president of Clarium Capital in San Francisco and an early investor in PayPal, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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Images courtesy of iStockphoto, lightkeeper. Social Networking: The Present. Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on “Social Networking: The Past, Present, And Future.” Read Part I first, this one, and then Part III. Follow him on Twitter @msuster. This series is an adaptation of a recent talk he gave at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking.”
You can watch the video here , or you can scroll quickly through the Powerpoint slides embedded at the bottom of the post or here on DocStoc. Social Networking in Web 2.0: Plaxo & LinkedIn In my last post, I discussed the origins of social networking online, beginning with CompuServe, Prodigy, the Well, then the rise of AOL, Geocities and Yahoo Groups. And come after they did. And importantly Web 2.0 ushered in the era of “participation” – we all know that. But the masses didn’t want to blog. Modern Social Networking: Friendster, MySpace & Facebook Except that MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. Enter Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook: What's Next? - 60 Minutes. If you have a Facebook account, you've probably reconnected with an old pal, shared photos with your family, and gotten advice from your friends on what to buy and what to read.
It's pretty likely you logged on today. Lately, the social networking site has been introducing new products - one after the next - with the goal, it seems, of turning the entire Web into one big social network, so eventually the Internet will be Facebook. As if the company wasn't surging enough, the movie "The Social Network" about the creation of Facebook has heightened interest, especially in its 26-yr-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Now Facebook is about to get a facelift, and agreed to launch its new look on "60 Minutes. " Correspondent Lesley Stahl went out to Palo Alto, Calif. and sat down with Zuckerberg to discuss his creation, which is used today by a whopping 500 million people in 70 languages all around the world.
"When you first thought about this, 19 years old, is this what you had in mind?