Facebook's 1st CTO Launches His Next Company (Screen Shots)

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Post by jasonlbaptiste » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 6:25 AM UTC

Facebook's 1st CTO Launches His Next Company (Screen Shots)
readwriteweb.com

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Post by snitko » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 7:31 AM UTC

The project has not been released yet. The project website says nothing, except that it's a question collection and suggests to leave an email to let you know when they're ready. I think it's not worth a review on ReadWriteWeb or here.

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Post by hendler » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 9:16 AM UTC

I've got a beta account to Quora - and found the interface, client side tech to be pretty powerful for collaborative knowledge building. More structure than a wiki, or mailing list, but flexible way to build knowledge.

I agree with the review impressions "Quora is a little like Aardvark, the social Q&A service founded by ex-Googlers and rumored to be in Google's acquisition sites, and it's a little like Stack Overflow, the carefully crafted Q&A site for programmers that's shot through the roof with reader interest. It's definitely different though."

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Post by nailer » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 10:05 AM UTC

Quora seems to resemble a general purpose Stack Overflow.

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Post by Maro » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 11:00 AM UTC

"Adam D'Angelo was a programming genius..."

Stopped reading there.

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Post by atarashi » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 11:18 AM UTC

Maro wrote: post #5

"Adam D'Angelo was a programming genius..." Stopped reading there.

Stopped reading there.

He got a silver medal at the International Olympiad for Informatics, and the following year his team won the ACM programming contest.

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Post by bvi » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 11:28 AM UTC

hendler wrote: post #3

I've got a beta account to Quora - and found the interface, client side tech to be pretty powerful for collaborative knowledge building. More structure than a wiki, or mailing list, but flexible way to build knowledge. I agree with the review impressions "Quora is a little like Aardvark, the social Q&A service founded by ex-Googlers and rumored to be in Google's acquisition sites, and it's a little like Stack Overflo…

Could I get an invite, if you have any available?

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Post by pclark » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 11:32 AM UTC

bvi wrote: post #7

hendler wrote: post #3

I've got a beta account to Quora - and found the interface, client side tech to be pretty powerful for collaborative knowledge building. More structure than a wiki, or mailing list, but flexible way to build knowledge. I agree with the review impressions "Quora is a little like Aardvark, the social Q&A service founded by ex-Googlers and rumored to be in Google's acquisition sites, and it's a little like Stack Overflo…

Could I get an invite, if you have any available?

I'd love one too. email in profile.

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Post by ntoshev » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 12:05 PM UTC

hendler wrote: post #3

I've got a beta account to Quora - and found the interface, client side tech to be pretty powerful for collaborative knowledge building. More structure than a wiki, or mailing list, but flexible way to build knowledge. I agree with the review impressions "Quora is a little like Aardvark, the social Q&A service founded by ex-Googlers and rumored to be in Google's acquisition sites, and it's a little like Stack Overflo…

Do you see any value of it being "realtime"?

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Post by lucifer » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 1:16 PM UTC

Sounds like a great app for Google Wave.