Q: What Does Quora Mean For The Future Of Blogging? A: Business As Usual. As many of you have noticed, we (and by “we”, I mainly mean “me”) have been using Quora a lot as a source of inspiration for story ideas. Some people seem to think this is a great idea. Others seem to think it’s the end of TechCrunch, blogging, and the world — perhaps not in that exact order. But here’s what it really is: business as usual. One reader, Elias Bizannes, tweeted the following yesterday, “Blogging 3.0 according to @parislemon 1) Follow the founders of Quora 2) Spend all day on Quora 3) Rehash voted-up Quora posts on TechCrunch“.
My response to this was as follows, “@EliasBiz so was blogging 2.0 doing the same thing on twitter? And blogging 1.0 doing the same thing on blogs? My point, again, is that Quora is simply a new medium for what’s been going on since the beginning of blogging. This process usually starts with blogs (like TechCrunch) and then eventually moves to the mainstream media. It’s not just that it’s Yahoo Answers reborn, it’s that it’s Yahoo Answer done right. Sign In. How do you search on Quora. Login. How can I follow Topics on Quora. How do I get started using Quora. Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different? Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood (Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post. Thanks Geoff! ) Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora, a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee.
Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Answers. It does heavily rely on Twitter and Facebook for promotion, adding it to the increasing amount of social middleware platforms that are being developed. I waited to join, in spite of receiving generic invitations from colleagues who had joined. Ironically, it was my post “Reflection on Networked Professional Learning” where I linked to a post on Social Networks from Stephen Downes. Quora is “a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.” Some first impressions: So, how might Quora be useful to nonprofit professionals?
Quora Signups Exploded In Late December ? Then Doubled From That This Week. So this service Quora, it’s getting pretty hot. But up until now, we’ve only be able to guestimate how hot it actually is. But today they’ve finally shared some actual information — on Quora, naturally. Specifically, Quora engineer Albert Sheu has put up a long answer to the question: Why did the Quora website get so slow at the end of December 2010?
The reason Sheu gives includes a brief explanation of how the service works. When someone adds an answer or updates one, everyone else on that page sees the new information in realtime. Why was that? On December 28th, we saw between 5-10 times more activity on the site than usual. Sheu credits Amazon’s EC2 system with allowing the service to get back up to speed relatively quickly. And it’s a good thing they did that, because this week, just one week later, the service has seen even bigger growth. “This round however, we were much, much better prepared for the increased load. So we’re sorry Quora for contributing to the problem. Après Twitter, Quora révolutionne à nouveau le blogging.
Jimmy Leach: Is the Foreign Office too cool for Quora? Getting the digital debate going Statistically, there’s (almost) certainly a correlation between chandeliers and successful diplomacy. I might not be able to prove it, but over the years, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has conducted its high-level business in high-ceilinged rooms, chandeliers all a-glitter above the men in suits. So the upcoming London Conference on Cyberspace is a very different beast indeed to the sort of discussions this department is used to. The FCO has an ‘approach’ to the digital world … Read more »Getting the digital debate going International and hyperlocal – taking the message to market Occasionally, I’m asked to do presentations and discuss what the Foreign Office does, digitally speaking.
Searching for the best way to spell Qadhafi The Foreign Office has been around for a long time, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. The Foreign Office doesn’t sell trainers – but we’re using QR codes anyway I mostly come across QR codes while I’m waiting for public transport. Quora : le réseau social de 2011 ? Catégorie : E-Marketing ● 2 Commentaires ● Par acti le 06/01/2011 Fini les éternelles rétrospectives de 2010, nous voilà en 2011 avec son lot de nouveautés, de promesses et de tendances. A la une en ce moment, le réseau social Quora conçu par 2 ex-employés de Facebook (Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo). Depuis que Le Telegraph a annoncé que « Quora deviendra plus grand que Twitter » , une vraie effervescence a lieu chez les spécialistes du Social Marketing.
Actuellement aux États-Unis, se sont pas moins de 10 articles qui sont publiés chaque jour par les médias. # Qu’est ce que Quora ? Non ce n’est pas la fusion entre les restaurants Quick et les supermarchés Cora (arfff, je sais elle est facile Quora est un réseau social basé sur le partage de connaissance à travers des « Questions/Réponses ». 1. Et c’est sur ce dernier point que l’outil semble puissant et apprécié. Les réponses sont constamment améliorées par la communauté et organisée par les membres de Quora. . # Quora : l’enjeu.
Press Releases. How Did Quora Get So Popular So Fast. By Sheldon Levine - Thursday, January 6th, 2011 at 7:31 am ShareThis If you’ve had your ear to the social media ground (metaphorically speaking of course) lately, then you’ve undoubtedly heard about Quora. Just in case you haven’t, in the words of the creators, “Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.” Basically, it’s a site for people to ask and answer questions on just about anything and is totally curated by the people who use it. Quora was started in June of 2009 by the former CTO of Facebook. Using MAP, our social media monitoring and analytics platform, we looked at the buzz around Quora in social media from the day they went public to today. One of the reasons we heard that might have caused this explosion was TechCrunch.
Whatever the real reason may be for the boom in interest with Quora, one thing we can say for sure is that people seem to like it. ShareThis.