Beepl Launches A Twitter-Simple, “Social Q&A Site” by Kit Eaton.
From the post:
People, meet Beepl. It launched to the general public yesterday in the online expertise-sharing/question-and-answer sphere after a short private test run. Branding itself as a “social Q&A site” that “lets users seek answers and opinion from subject specialists, enthusiasts and their social graph,” Beepl also “understands the topics that questions relate to and users’ interests and expertise so that questions automatically reach the best people to reach them.” That bit of lateral thinking differentiates Beepl in a pretty bustling market, but it’s only one of the novel surprises from the company (starting with the lack of a launch press release).
There was this exchange with the founder, Steve O’Hear:
….How can you trust that it’ll connect you to something interesting to you, or perhaps something you have vital insight into for others? Does it mean you may miss out on fringe questions about things you never knew about, but may be fascinated by?
Beepl addresses this, O’Hear says, because the “most aggressive part is for people that are actively using the site. It looks at questions you’ve clicked on, any you’ve answered, any you’ve asked. It even takes a tiny amount from if you do a search on the site.”
I guess if you think politicians really answer each other in debates you could consider that to be a response. 😉 Well, from a dialogue standpoint it was a response but it wasn’t a very helpful one.
From a topic map standpoint, how would you go about mapping the stream of questions and answers? Clues you would look for? Not quite as short as tweets. Enough for context?