Quora is ‘blowing up,’ are you adding to the fire?
Question: Is Danny Schreiber on Quora?
Answer: Danny Schreiber: No.
Although I haven't signed up for Quora (yet), I feel like I have the general idea of the purpose of the site: a well-designed platform for interesting questions and intelligent answers. On their about page, Quora describes themselves quite similarly: "Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it."
In the past month, it's been mentioned in eight TechCrunch posts – one of them titled "Need More Proof Quora Is 'Blowing Up'? Meet The Quora Button" – that's the kind of attention hot startups (or once startups) Facebook, Twitter and Google receive. And this kind of attention isn't too unfamiliar to Quora's co-founders, Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo, who met when they worked at Facebook. Launched last year, the startup also recieved $11 million in a Series A funding.
I encourage you to read up on Quora on FastCompany.com: "Q&A Site Quora Builds Buzz With A-List Answerers." But when you do read the article, make sure to read the note about the actual number of registered users on the site. As TechCrunch writer Alexia Tsotsis points out: "Even Quora Can’t Answer 'How Many People Use Quora?'" I also encourage you to read TechCrunch's Quora coverage: crunchbase.com/company/quora/posts.
The following Quora questions may be of particular interest to those of you on the Silicn Prairie. Later today, I plan to sign up and follow each of the questions below, maybe providing a couple answers myself. (Click on the images below to be taken to the question's Quora page.)
ARCHIVED COMMENTS
I think, like most all apps, there will evolve new ways to use the platform that couldn't have been foreseen by the founders and the fact that it's simple and flexible with not a ton of enforced structure reminds me of Twitter.
If we all used Twitter for what it was intended, it would suck. I don't think Quora is going to be used exactly as intended either.
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