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Please report back on how these "proxy neighbor office hours" work for you. I've been considering doing something similar for user experience and interaction design. There's also Design Community Twitter Hours (@DCTH) but Twitter doesn't seem like a great way to handle this sort of thing.
This is really an awesome idea. My most recent exchange with other tech guys were limited to IRC (cumbersome, with all the problems a text only medium brings if you don't know the other guy/cannot guess the subtext) or, rarely, Twitter. Kent, I'd love to read about the results of your experiment and your side of the story after having answered a number of calls.
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I'm getting a 500 internal server error on your site.
Sorry about that. Purposely didn't link Viewpointr for that reason. Thanks to @engineyard we are humming again. We are also having a little Twitter bug that we are working on. Sorry :S
Looking forward to trying this out.
Man I REALLY like this idea. Props! Let us know how it goes please. I might be tempted to do the same thing with J2EE/Enterprise scalability focus, if there's any interest in that. I wonder if this could be monitized, like pay for 15 minute blocks or something, both to increase the value to the provider and to cut down on potential abuse/time-suck. The value could be very well worth it to the caller I'd think. Like c…
This is a bit of what I had in mind for http://EveryMentor.com . Someone to be a "workout" buddy of sorts for pretty much any activity (from being a single founder to being a wedding planner). Needless to say, I like the idea!
Would love to see some testimonials on the homepage though.