Quora

Bing Goes Social | Facebook-Instagram Probe | Twitter Followers Stop Almost-Suicide - Posted May 11, 2012
 Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Ask an Inmate a Question on Quora and Help Them Get to Silicon Valley - Posted April 30, 2012
The social web empowers people who would once be cut off from the world to connect with others and maintain social ties. This can get tricky when we talk about offering this freedom to convicted felons, but a a San Francisco program called "The Last Mile" is attempting to leverage... [SocialTimes.com]

The Numbers Say that Quora Is For Everyone - Posted April 24, 2012
Quora has not been making as big a splash as it once did. Founded in 2009, the site was once a very buzz-worthy representative of emerging social networks, but its thunder was stolen by Tumblr and now Pinterest. That said, the question and answer format at Quora has always... [SocialTimes.com]

Quora and Moviefone Partner to Release Hunger Games Question of the Day - Posted March 19, 2012
In a cool move by inspired by Kat Li over at Quora, Moviefone and Quora have partnered up to promote Hunger Games and reach out to readers and potential movie watchers. Moviefone will be taking one Hunger Games question from Quora each day and highlighting the best answers on... [SocialTimes.com]

Quora Question Sparks Reunion for Craiglist Founder and Friends - Posted February 1, 2012
A user on Quora asked, "What was the true genesis of Craigslist?" Wikipedia can answer that: before Craigslist became became a goldmine of (mostly real) apartment listings and garage sale items in ... [SocialTimes.com]

6 Ways to Use Quora for Research - Posted February 1, 2012
Brian Honigman is the Social Media Account Manager at LunaMetrics, which you can follow at @LunaMetrics. Read more about Brian after the article. Have you ever used Quora before to solve an unanswered question or start a conversation about an inte... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Starts Asking You To Ask Questions -- Is Quora Threatened? - Posted January 23, 2012
Late last week Google quietly rolled out a feature where Google asks you if you want to ask a question related to your current search query, and it then posts the question on Google+. It doesn't look like they're providing any special interface for the question, but it does make... [SocialTimes.com]

Quora Now Lets You Follow Users and Topics - Posted January 19, 2012
While Quora may not be the hottest new kid on the block anymore, they've been admirably building their service with relative humility over the last year. After introducing the fascinating gamification inspired Ask to Answer and Credits features a few weeks ago they've now updated their service to emphasize the... [SocialTimes.com]

New Beepl Social Q&A Service Wants To Predict Your Questions -- Can It? - Posted January 17, 2012
The news feed has become one of the most powerful tools on the web. A social business will live and die depending on whether the home page news feed provides a given user with information they actually care about. Facebook does a decent job, but it took a while... [SocialTimes.com]

Quora Launches Boards -- The Easier Way to Organize Your Answers - Posted December 20, 2011
Quora, taking a cue from their user activity, is updating their service to be just a bit more than a social question and answer service. According to CEO Adam D'Angelo, people want to "read the most interesting content regardless of whether it happens to be in question and answer format... [SocialTimes.com]

Quora Becomes a Game -- Earn Credits for Answering Questions - Posted December 1, 2011
Quora is one of my favorite emerging social networks. The service is all about questions and answers, and the website does a great job of ensuring that's the main focus. You can browse various topics and hear answers to questions from ... [SocialTimes.com]

Quora for iPhone App Can Show Q&A About Things Near You - Posted November 11, 2011
Quora is a popular community-organized Q&A website. But, did you know there Quora also has an iPhone app with an interesting feature tweak? The free Quora iPhone app lets you ask questions, contribute answers and browse topics as you can on Quora's desktop website. And, the tweak? Quora for iPhone has... [SocialTimes.com]

News from Quora, Klout, Cision, and More - Posted October 20, 2011
Remember Quora? Business Insider thinks they might be getting millions in another round of fundraising. Are you (still) usi... [AgencySpy]

New Product Discovery Service Emerges with $1M in Funding - Posted September 28, 2011
Steven Fruchter and I have been trading emails back and forth discussing his social venture -- Get.com. So far, Fruchter has been working with his partner Jake Gold to generate funding and they have succeeded in raising $1 million in seed funding from undisclosed angel investors. Now, Fruchter and... [SocialTimes.com]

New Service Lets You Filter Your Friends For Stuff You Care About - Posted September 6, 2011
Do you sometimes wish Twitter was a little bit quieter or relevant? Subjot, a NYC-based startup recently launched to the public, seems to have the answer. The social network can connect you with people you are familiar with ... [SocialTimes.com]

What's It Like To Write A Flop? Go To Quora To Find Out From Conan The Barbarian Screenwriter - Posted August 25, 2011
Ever wonder what it's like to be called a failure? The Hollywood writer of Conan the Barbarian 3D can't resist answering the question on Quora. Failure is never good. Even when you learn from it in the long run, in the moment failing, well, sucks. Of course, there is the consolation that... [SocialTimes.com]

Quora Help Users Find Related Content With New Browse Page - Posted August 12, 2011
Quora, an emerging social question and answer site, has roll out its newest browse page to help improve the user experience on the site. The new browse page serves fresh, relevant and personalized content by pulling recently vote... [SocialTimes.com]

New York Times Journalists Take To Quora To Answer Questions - Posted July 19, 2011
A reporter, editor and columnist from The New York Times will take to Quora, starting today, to answer your questions. In one of the highest-profile partnerships yet for the nascent question and answer-based social network, Diana B. Henriques, Gretchen Morgenson and ... [10,000 Words]

NY Times Writers to Answer Quora Queries - Posted July 18, 2011
New York Times senior financial writer Diana B. Henriques, Sunday Business section columnist Gretchen Morgenson, and deputy national editor ... [SocialTimes.com]

7 Minutes in Heaven: JJ Abrams Answered Questions on Quora for 7 Minutes - Posted June 21, 2011
What can you accomplish in seven minutes? When JJ Abrams - director of Super 8 - used Quora for seven minutes to answer questions, the pairing of major Hollywood player and question and answer site turned out to be a match made in heaven. Quora is a question and answer site that... [SocialTimes.com]

"Namesake" Is A Real Time Conversation Network -- 9 Questions With The Founders - Posted June 7, 2011
Serial Entrepreneurs Brian Norgard and Dan Gould, founders of Newroo (acquired by News Corp) and Ad.ly (the largest micro endorsement platform), experimented their way into next creation: the world's first real-time global conversation community. Today, that community exists in limited release alpha at Namesake.com. Compared by many to Twitter, Qu... [SocialTimes.com]

Quora Changes Policy -- Now Allows Self Promotion - Posted May 11, 2011
Quora users have been wondering when it would happen. Social media experts have been speculating, and it is finally here. Quora changes its policy to permit self promotion. This week, Quora - the question and answer site that has exploded onto the social media scene this past year - has changed their... [SocialTimes.com]

B2B Gets Yelp'd - Posted May 6, 2011
As its VP of Content Marketing, guest blogger Joe Chernov is responsible for identifying, sourcing and distributing Eloqua's market-facing content over relevant social channels. He co-chairs the ... [SocialTimes.com]

Finally, An iPhone App for Quora... Almost - Posted April 15, 2011
Been wondering when Quora is going to release an iPhone App? Well, your question has kind of been answered, as Quora endorses unofficial Social Questions App. With question-and-answer sites popping up left, right, and centre, and competition from Facebook's Question's feature, Quora has rallied its official support behind an unofficial iPhone... [SocialTimes.com]

The New American Dream Boys: Adam D'Angelo & Charlie Cheever of Quora - Posted April 12, 2011
In 1950, the American Dream looked like a white picket fence and a collared shirt, but what does it look like in 2011? It could be in iPod, a Live Strong bracelet, or a YouTube video. But, if Gen Y had to pick a person - or group of... [SocialTimes.com]

Defining the Semantic Web in a Few Sentences - Posted March 15, 2011
A Quora user posed this challenge to the network: "How do you explain semantic web to a nine-year old child in one sentence?" The challenge was followed by a quote from Albert Einstein: "If you... [semanticweb.com]

'Entertainment Weekly' Partners With GetGlue - Posted March 7, 2011
Entertainment Weekly has launched a rewards program through a partnership with GetGlue.com, the social network for ... [PRNewser]

The Ticker: SEO & startups; Sheen's enablers; Today.com; PR people on Quora; RIM's CMO - Posted March 7, 2011
BusinessInsider: SEO Is No Longer A Viable Marketing Strategy For Startups New York Times: Sheen Is Surrounded by a Coterie of Enablers NYTimes Media Decoder: ... [PRNewser]

Quora Competitor Opinionaided Raises $1 Million in Funding for Mobile App - Posted March 2, 2011
This week investors are offering a hundred million pennies for your thoughts. ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google Continues to Tweak Social Search Results - Posted February 17, 2011
Google is testing a way to make social results a more prominent part in its search results, moving content that previously appeared at the bottom of its results page toward the top and adding friends' names, where applicable, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

What Info Are You Gathering from Quora? - Posted January 5, 2011
CNET noticed all of the social media chatter lately about Quora, the question-and-answer site that was actually launched back in June by two former Facebookers, ... [PRNewser]