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Just started a health-centric blog about the Web 2.0 movement and how it relates to getting and sharing online health information. Looks like there's a lot of rooom for disruptive change in the online health space and I hope to be part of it. I'm calling the blog Health 2.0.
Starting using Flock, perhaps the first Web 2.0 browser today. In fact, I'm writing this blog post via the blog-button which is part of Flock's core browser toolset- lets see if it works. Most of what you'd see as plugins on other browsers are pre-populated core tools in Flock- tagging (del.icio.us) blogging (several platforms compatible), RSS feed-reading, etc, are all built in. Btw, on a semi-related strain, given that everything from storage to heavy applications seems to be going web-based now, I'm starting to wonder whether the browser will soon replace the desktop, at least in terms of the experience. In other words, you start your computer and the first thing you see is your browser window opened to your start page, rather than your normal desktop with the XP start button, toolbar, desktop area, etc. That situation would already be a shortcut for me, as the first thing I do when I start my computer is "leave" the desktop and open my browser :)
Really Simple Social Bookmarking. Haven't tried it yet, but if anyone out there has, let me know what you think.
Hope to try Flock today. See Cori's notes.
Pluck launches a social search engine: Shadows - Tag, comment, and rate your favorite web pages..
Cori goes elliptical... I, for one, like the new name.
Cori on Rojo Forums, which have arrived.
Thanks Cori! You've been enormously helpful and supportive as I try to navigate (often blindly) through the intricacies of social software, Web 2.0, whatever the meme might be...
Link: Search Sites Try to Give Instant Answers - Yahoo! News. I bet these same queries would get at least a few more decent results at the Wondir engine. If the results themselves don't have the answer in our 2 million + Q&A archive, or our search results, the community might jump in with an answer in a few seconds/minutes.
Just found Squidoo. Still not sure what it is, but I like what I see so far and have signed up for their beta. One to watch.
Here at the Web 2.0 conference, the Google Labs man just announced the launch of Google
Reader
(you need a Gmail account, I believe, to try it) Here's what Jeff Clavier has to say about it. Haven't really tried it yet, but the UI is very Google-esque, K.I.S.S. principles, speed, central search component, etc.
Oh, and... AOL buys
Weblogs Inc
Yep, social software is officially mainstream.
If you haven't heard already, yesterday it was announced that Wondir Inc was
acquired by Revolution Health Group. Feel free
to check out the press
release or the
article in Information Week. Needless to say, we're very happy about it and are proud to be part of such a consumer-empowering health company.
Please be assured that the acquisition will not disrupt the
current community at Wondir.com. In fact, we only expect it to make the
community better. Although we will have an entity focused on health-related
Q&A, the current entity focused on all categories (Wondir.com) will
continue to grow, thrive and improve.
Of course, feel free to ping us if you have any questions about the news.
Technorati tags: questions, answers, advice, search, community, health, Wondir
Thanks Pete. Yes, the quantity is remarkable, probably b/c we make it so easy to ask and answer, and it's of course free. Most Q&A sites either make it relatively difficult to ask or answer, are pay-per-answer, or both, and have less activity as a consquence. Compared to sites like Google Answers, which gets only a couple hundred Qs and As per day, we think Wondir's numbers say it all, especially when you consider the relative size of our company.
Nice to know I'm not the the only one that read the NYT piece on Q&A sites, including Wondir, this week :)
Link: Nice, just tried it. Thanks for the heads up, Jeff. The only video engine I've used is Google Video, which is an entirely different animal. Looks like it's indexing fast, perhaps within minutes of the video going live. Solid.
Google Unifying Logins - iBLOGthere4iM Interesting development, as merger and acquisition mania may soon let the big players- Google, Yahoo, MSN (already trying w/ Passport) participate in the identity-movement (watered-down version known as the "single sign-on movememt"). Not nearly as good as having a single identity for ALL web properties, but better than having different logins for all Google properties, all Yahoo properites, etc. It's a start. Still like to see Sxip or the other identity players take this all the way home...
Life as a Wondir staff member :)
... to make sure Billy's new blog is getting readily and relevantly found in Technorati's new Blog Finder engine, here is a horde of relevant tags...
Technorati tags: question, answer, questions, answers, advice, Q&A, advisor community reference Wondir
pc4media: Join the Revolution.... This looks like a very good move, Pete.
For anyone unfamiliar with WhizSpark, it's a robust event-building and promotion platform run by one of the most tuned-in Web 2.0-minded guys on the Web- Pete Caputa.
Check it out and the counterpart blog. Bondhunter is one of the top answerers at Wondir, ranked #2 overall, out of over 150,000 members. He's answered over 25,000 questions. Not bad.
Jeff on Google BlogSearch As he points out, it seems the title field is key. In a way, it looks like you can use keywords in the title field to quasi-tag your post for inclusion in Google BlogSearch. Not sure they look at other tags.
Here's Zeev's post on the launch of QTSaver beta. It's a cool microcontent engine that's well worth a spin.
Looking forward to seeing this. About time we had a social-software-centric browser :)
More from Bondhunter. At least one of his suggestions (line/paragraph breaks in posts at Wondir) was taken to heart and went live last week, so we're definitely listening.
Zeev on his new Microcontent Engine. I got to try it out the other day and found it very different and very cool. Hopefully he'll have some of the real-time engine APIs as options available soon as well. I had no idea what QT Saver was until Zeev let me take it for a spin. It's really a search engine that delivers large snippets of microcontent and displays them as results, rather than links. Reminiscent of Answerbus and a few of the blog engines, but he's got a new slant. Worth watching how this develops.
Randy on the new Firefox. I've got to remember to download this next week. I actually read somewhere that FireFox's growth had stalled, but I find that hard to believe. Maybe this will get it back on the trajectory if so.
Rojo launches Rojo Scriptlets. I'll definitely be using these in cohoots with the Rojo sharing feature.
Pete on Marc and Dave on Microformats
Good to see Marc and Dave's mighty brains teaming up on something like this. I approached Marc not to long ago about possible Q&A microformats in particular. Summed it up here. Although Arnaud, Pete and Cori have given me highly-informed input on how to create a blogospheric Wondir that doesn't necessarily depend on a Q&A microformat, it may still have value as a side project to keep on the horizon, as Qs and As are a very distinct pair-unit of microcontent.
Link: Pete on the power of microformats Maybe we'll be able to develop a Q&A microformat at some point as several have suggested.
Link: Software Only: Just tested Google Talk: neat, still a bit basic, more open and as clear as Skype.... Have a look at his comparison chart of various IM clients.
Link: QTSaver: Welcome On board, Eddie ! Look's like Zeev has a new developer on board for his QTSaver platform, which Zeev describes as:
... my new research tool, QTSaver, which extracts info from multiple sites into one document, which then can be sorted so that in a very short time you can write an article without using a word of your own.
Link: Skype opens IM and Presence to the world - iBLOGthere4iM. Good for them. It couldn't come on a scarier day for Skype though, given the launch of Google Talk, which I've tried and have to say I like. I dowloaded Skype last year but was too confused to move forward with it right away- not Skype's fault but mine. But I do have to give it to Google- simplicity is golden.
Link: talk.google.com - iBLOGthere4iM. Hmmm... I'd love to see Google IM using Jabber- the open-source (and depending on how its implemented, interoperable) IM platform. Wondir uses Jabber for WIM (Wondir Instant Messaging) as well. Jabber is a good thing.
Link: Jeteye Jetpak’s Wiki d Geeked Up Search Thing. Thoughts on JetEye?
You know the Tom & Ray Car Talk show? Well we're proud to annouce a partnership with Tom and Ray’s counterpart website- CarTalk.com (you can see the
partnership here). It's a Car-focused, Live Q&A feature powered by Wondir. Given Tom & Ray's endearing, self-deprecating humor, they're calling it "Ask Someone Smarter than Us" and you can see the here. If you've got car questions or answers, please jump in. The CarTalk community has already asked and answered thousands of car questions.
This piece in the Post coincided with our press release today. Here are a few of the milestones highlighted:
A huge thanks to our devoted regulars (bondhunter being the prolific blogger in the bunch) for getting us here. The tipping point may be in sight :)
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