I just recently got a BETA key to check out the new “social question and answer” service called Aardvark.
A pretty simple and straightforward service, it “lives” on your Instant Messaging client and then begins to route questions from other Aardvark members to the people that can best answer those questions. You can decide what questions you’d like to field or pass them on to someone better suited (or if you’re too busy to answer or you just don’t know).
It’s interesting, as ReadWriteWeb notes, that it’s very much like using Twitter to answer questions but from their results and testing the quality of the answers have been far better.
From my own use in the last 24 hours I am really liking it. I’ve been asked questions about WordPress, seminary, and a host of other questions already. I answered them fully and it seems that the persons asking were quite satisfied. I asked a few random questions like “Who should I follow on Twitter?” and got back a host of great responses.
This use of current services to create a new specific use and function is nothing less than innovative. I’m not exactly sure what it’s use is for the Church or how we could use the tech but I’m liking where this “social Q/A” thing is going.
If you’re interested in trying it out, I’ve got 10 Invites. First 10 commenters expressing interest can get one.
What do you think?
Yeah…invites…and I like crowd sourcing almost as much as candy….
I’m keen John
I would love an invite!
Dish me out one!
Hook it up
I would love to have an invite please! This whole Aardvark thing reminds me of the cell phone social questions and answer service called ChaCha. For anyone who doesn't know about that it's definitely cool, check it out.
I'd love to get an invite! Sounds like a blast…
Sounds like this is a cool new way of communicating online. I'm up for it. Count me in!
Thanks for the great writeup! Glad you're enjoying Aardvark… if you have any feedback/comments/suggestions, I'd love to hear them, please be in touch! (send anything to feedback@vark.com, or on Twitter I'm @robsp)
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Looks like you might have 1 left! Count me in!
let me try it out. what's wrong with trying?
If for some reason you have any more invites (by my count you don't) I'd love to get on board. I just checked it out and it seems like a really effective way to communicate information. The implications for sharing the gospel are huge!
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