How to see the value of social questions and answers

What is a social question and answer service

The so-called social questions and answers website, the personal understanding is that the establishment of the question and answer platform, more dependent on social networks (such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.), based on this social network relationship, on the one hand through the network to find the right person to answer the question, on the other hand, through socialization, Allow users to get to know more about common topics, and to develop a social knowledge community based on the people who find more focused on topics/issues of interest to them.

The most important feature of social questions and answers is socialization, more emphasis on the value of people in generating questions, and finding the best answers to questions in a more 2.0 way, such as: Digg,wiki, attention mechanisms, and so on.

Ii. the value of the social question answering service

In fact, the Internet very early has a question and answer website, the site before also made a summary, such as Yahoo Answer,google Answer, Baidu know, and so on, of course, like Google Answer has been closed, Baidu know at home still very hot, but in general, These early question-and-answer sites simply provide a platform for users to ask questions, and the user can answer the question in a process that does not emphasize the value of the person or relationship. This year, the development of social network, especially after the emergence of Quora, so that we have a more in-depth understanding of the social question and answer service. A simple analysis of Quora can also give us a deeper understanding of the value of social question answering services.

The value of social questions and answers from Quora's product features:

1. Presenting the problem in a newsfeed way: The core element that constitutes Quora: question, person, topic. Quora, users can focus on other users, users can also focus on issues and topics, we know that Twitter, one-way attention to the spread of information is greatly increased, and in the Quora is the same, attention mechanism makes the spread of the problem faster, It's also easier for people who know the answers to answer questions. Focusing on issues and topics also makes it easier for users to accumulate knowledge, and makes it easier for users to spread knowledge.

2. Recommendations of the problem-based people and the topic of recommendation: Through this question and answer mechanism, you can make it easy for users to focus on the problem at the same time can expand the relationship between the circle, and these relationships are based on issues, topics, which form a recommendation based on interest. Develop social circles based on interest.

3. Better crowdsourcing: web2.0 times we are talking about user contributions, and Quora is clearly a step closer, users can collaborate on the answers to questions, Digg, or Wiki forms to get the best answer. Let the user to organize the topic of the whole website problem, form the relative system of knowledge system.

Third, the foreign socialization question and answer service

This was preceded by a summary of the previous, and of course the foreign social web site is not only mentioned below:

1.Quora

It was a concern because it was created by Facebook's former VP Adam D ' Angelo. The mode is: any netizen becomes the registered user of the website, can use their true identity to answer the question that other user raises. The question and answer service is quite similar to Wikipedia. More importantly, Quora introduces the concept of social relationships (which can be tied to Facebook and Twitter accounts), where users can focus on a topic, a problem, or (Follow) all questions and answers for one person, and the user can vote on the answer to the same question. That is, it introduces a Twitter-like follow mechanism to the topic/question-and-answer process, where users can focus on issues of interest to them, or topics/issues of interest to users, and keep abreast of the answers to these questions.

Link: http://www.quora.com/

2.Aardvark

Aardvark is an online question answering service platform based on social network. You can log in directly through your Facebook account and Google account. After the user login can directly import their Gmail, MSN or Facebook friends, and can set their own interest in the tag (topic), set to get the answer channel (IM, Email, Twitter, etc.), the system will be the way you set up the right question, you can answer , you can also recommend a friend you feel fit to answer. is now being bought by Google

Link: http://vark.com/

3.Formspring

Formspring is a social question and answer service platform, its slogan is "Ask, answer & learn about your friends" after registration can also be introduced to the current SNS platform friends, and can pay attention to their friends, Share issues of interest to Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Link: http://www.formspring.me/

4.Hunch

Hunch was founded by Flickr former co-founder Caterina Fake and the well-known angel investor Chris Dixon. More accurately, it may not be a true question and answer Service site, which can be regarded as a referral Service site, users use Twitter or Facebook account after landing, just answer 20 to determine the preferences of the problem, the Hunch home page will appear a series of highly compliant with the user's taste of the list of recommendations, including movies, books, magazines, computers, meals, vacations and so on. Currently recommended engine Hunch has worked with 7 large web sites to provide them with personalized recommendations on products, services, or content.

Link: http://hunch.com/

5.Lunch

Lunch is also an online community, in addition to being able to answer questions and answers based on this platform, lunch the site to focus on allowing users to find topics and people of interest. Can be logged in through a Facebook account.

Link: http://www.lunch.com/

6.Howmutch

A recently established question and answer website Howmutch is very unique, it only asks a kind of question: how much do you want to pay? Or how much would you pay if you were asked to do something? The question is similar to: how much would you like to have a coffee without limiting it in Starbucks? After answering these questions, The site will tell you how many people are bidding higher than you, how many people are bidding lower than you, and the average bid. You can also ask your Facebook and Twitter buddies to answer that question. This service should be more suitable for company research.

Link: http://howmutch.com/

7.Facebook Questions

It should be understandable that Facebook launches such services, which help to increase user stickiness and enhance interaction between Facebook's relationships.

Link: http://www.facebook.com/questions

8.ChaCha

Chacha was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Carmel (Carmel), Indiana, USA. Chacha mainly to the mobile phone (including conventional mobile phones and smart phones) users free to provide various questions and answers services, that is, users can call or send text messages to Chacha to ask questions, and then chacha to the user to return to the answer. Over the past 5 years, the question of questions asked by the Chacha has been close to 1 billion, and the site currently has about 15 million independent user visits per month.

Link: http://www.chacha.com/

Some other social question and answer services abroad:

http://www.opinionaided.com/

http://www.crowdbeacon.com/

http://loqly.me/

http://someoneask.com/

http://www.mahalo.com/

http://ask.fm/

http://www.friend.ly/

Iv. domestic social questions and answers service

There have been a lot of social questions and answers service websites in China this year, the following are some of the online now:

Know is a "social question and Answer website", on January 26, 2011 low-key on-line, from the Innovation Factory investment. It is well known that a large number of Internet celebrities have been invited in the initial period of time, and the control of the number of invitations has attracted a lot of attention in the first time. At present, it should be said that in this field in the country is in the front, of course, its relationship to deal with the individual feel still need to strengthen the long-term success of celebrity strategy has yet to be tested.

http://zhihu.com/

Rice is a social question and answer service website similar to formspring. (Via)

http://mifan.me/

is also a social question and answer service website, determined to build an open question and answer community site. It is an open source project and is concerned about its name and relative knowledge.

http://zheye.org/

Sinan is a recently online social question and answer service, is still in the beta, its slogan is "complex question and answer, boss South"

http://sinan.com/

Ah, the problem is a social network based on the real-time question and answer platform, users can through MSN, GTalk, e-mail and mobile phone text messages and other channels to their own in the above user network for real-time questions and answers. After the user is registered, can set their own interest, ah boring topic will be based on your list of topics to ask you questions, you can also set the binding msn,gtalk or mobile phone messages to use AH trouble, in addition can also set the frequency of receiving problems, receive the time period of the problem, whether to accept the problem outside the circle of friends. Then you can through IM and text messages to ask questions, ah trouble will find the right users to send questions to them to answer; Ah, the problem will also be based on your interest to set the issue you are interested in sending you. (Via)

http://www.rfanti.com/

In addition to the above, there will be online also include Baidu update.

V. Issues and challenges

For the domestic social question and answer service website, although the domestic now do a lot of people, but also proved that this area is relatively optimistic, but in my personal view this area still have a lot of problems waiting to solve.

1. How to build relationships quickly: a big advantage of the socialization problem abroad is that Twitter and Facebook, two large, ready-made networks, can easily be spread by leveraging existing relationships. And now, although there is a gradual opening of the relationship, but the first is more relations, but not open up to the extent of Facebook. Of course the breadth of the relationship and the strategy of the operation are related, the user's breadth and content of concentration is contradictory. It is a question that needs to be considered to quickly build the relationship that you want to build for the just-started social question answering service website.

2. Two types of relationship processing: Socialization problem There are two types of more valuable relationships, one is the relationship between acquaintances, one is the relationship between ordinary users and experts, the two types of relationships may need to adopt different ways of dealing with the accumulation of knowledge may also be considered.

3. Recommendation mechanism: While the newsfeed approach can speed up the spread of problems, it also means greater likelihood of information overload, problem recommendation mechanisms, topic recommendation mechanisms, and human referral mechanisms as a challenge to socialization services.

4. Content organization: We talked about the possibility that social issues services could produce higher quality problem answers through crowdsourcing, and that these high quality questions and answers are discovered through search, and are presented in an orderly manner through an appropriate organization. At present, Quora allows users to organize the topic of the problem, and the user is obviously not enough, this is not a small test of the operation.

Vi. Summary

The social question answering service is my individual also more optimistic one domain, this year the unceasing appearance social question answering service also proved everybody to this direction optimistic, but believed that this domain also can compete more fiercely. Of course, I personally feel that the social question is still only at the beginning of the stage, there will be a lot of different forms of social question and answer service, such as the professional field of vertical social question and answer service, and geographical integration of social question and answer services, and video integration of social questions and answers, and mobile Combined with the social question answering service and so on.