Wondiring

house of the hanged man: Kudos to Allen (and Wondir)!

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...
 

Bubblegeneration - Evil Corporations Only

Link: On Squidoo, JetEye and Wondir.

Wondir Acquired - iBLOGthere4iM

Link: Thanks Randy!.

The scoop

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

Free + Open + Simple = Activity

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.

NY Times on Google Answers, Wondir, Ingenio...

Nice to know I'm not the the only one that read the NYT piece on Q&A sites, including Wondir, this week :)

Bond Hunter's Guide To Wondir: Bright and Shiny Future: Part Four

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.

Technorati tags: Wondir

Thanks :)

Link: Blogger of the Day - Allen Searls - iBLOGthere4iM.

RojoBlog: Rojo Scriptlets

Rojo launches Rojo Scriptlets. I'll definitely be using these in cohoots with the Rojo sharing feature.

pc4media: Marc Canter & Dave Winer Team Up to Push Microformats!

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.