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Paul Gillin's Blog - Social Media and the Open Enterprise: Yahoo rolls out Answers
Paul Gillin's Blog - Social Media and the Open Enterprise
Saturday, December 10, 2005
  Yahoo rolls out Answers
Yahoo's got an interesting new service called Yahoo Answers that just launched this week. It's a very simple but potentially powerful community concept. Members post questions and answer questions. That's all there is to it. There's a points system but the points aren't redeemable for anything. It's more a bragging rights thing.

Browsing the categories, there's a chaotic mix of stuff, ranging from questions that can't be answered ("Is there a God?") to very specific topics like the best hotels in Milan. I tried posting a question about cameras and got two useful responses within a couple of hours.

It takes someone with the throw weight of Yahoo to make this work. I wish them luck.
 
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