Quora app gets presidential push

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Post by kumarrahul » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 9:39 AM UTC

Obama becomes Quora’s first verified user to answer your Healthcare questions.

Quora app gets presidential push
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Post by th0br0 » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 10:09 AM UTC

I'd love to know whether the (rather severe) spelling mistake in the domain / site name is on purpose (and even then... WHY?)

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Post by dingdingdang » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 10:13 AM UTC

What is it with Quora? Its like.. not useful.. at all: clunky interface, lock-in of information, it is like Google Knol. Again. And yet the funding never stops and now Obama is on board too?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 10:18 AM UTC

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Post by ycaspirant » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 10:18 AM UTC

dingdingdang wrote: post #3

What is it with Quora? Its like.. not useful.. at all: clunky interface, lock-in of information, it is like Google Knol. Again. And yet the funding never stops and now Obama is on board too?

To be fair, despite all the negatives that you mention, it has a ton of interesting content and passionate contributors.

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Post by Bpal » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 10:26 AM UTC

Obama is going closer to his readers and as Quora is really popular, I assume it to be a really good PR move. And it's presumably free, so good to go.

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Post by mercer » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 6:57 PM UTC

dingdingdang wrote: post #3

What is it with Quora? Its like.. not useful.. at all: clunky interface, lock-in of information, it is like Google Knol. Again. And yet the funding never stops and now Obama is on board too?

Much as I agree with you concerning the interface and lock-in, I do find myself on Quore quite often through their weekly(?) digest email, and every time I'm there I keep wanting to click around. So they're doing something right, even if just with the email (I usually never open newsletters).