There are only a few details emerging about Israel-based Yedda, which will be launching in the next month or so (the current home page is taking email registrations).
My understanding is that the service will be somewhat similar to Yahoo Answers, Wondir, Google Answers and Oyogi, with some key differences that the founders hope will result in significantly more user participation, and better answers.
Mike,
Do you have an idea as to what those key differences are in terms of seperating their service from the others you mentioned so that this isn´t another “me too” service? Would be very interested to know if they will actually bring any new value to that market…thanks.
Eric, I do, but I’m not allowed to discuss yet. Also, I have only had a discussion with the founders, I haven’t seen it in action yet.
does yedda mean anything in hebrew? or is this short for “YET Another answer service” ?
Thanks Mike. I thought that may have been the case. Guess I will add myself to another waiting list!
Yedda in hebrew means knowledge.
Oyogi reviewed here:
http://mashable...ns-and-answers/
oyogi is terrible. Forget how sparse the answer base is, the disambiguation technology is poor. try typing in good tour guide in Rome and see what you get. It disabiguates good and gives you Good Whiskey and other such things.
The Web: Working hard or hardly working?
CHICAGO, Jan. 25 (UPI) — Are you wasting time when online? Or working? A new study released this week showed that about 20 percent of government staff, while on the job, in one Malaysian state utilized the Internet for purely personal activities — like downloading porn, games and music. This was one of the main causes of poor work performance in the Johor state, Bernama, the state news agency there said, quoting a top government official, Norsiah Harun.
Experts tell United Press International’s The Web that the Internet productivity problem is global, and that cultural changes are needed to ensure that people are hard at work, rather than hardly working, as our parents’ generation used to say. By Gene Koprowski
Hi Mike,
I’m interested to know why you called Yedda a Community Search service as opposed to something else. Which commmunity is being searched? If it’s just the community of people willing to post questions and answers, is that really a community? I ask this question for obvious reasons – we’re developing what we’ve positioned as a Community Search service and it bears little resemblance to Wondir, Yedda, et. al.
Eric, Samir, you might want to take a look at some of the recent posts at the Yedda team blog (http://blog.yedda.org), in which we touch the points you raised.
Yaniv,
Thanks! I will check out the blog now. Good luck with everything.
cheers guys….you seem to have overlooked a similar startup: http://www.QAable.com
they seem to be pioneering some advanced trading algorithms for knowledge sharing – are there any opportunities for integration here?
they seem to be pioneering some advanced trading algorithms for knowledge sharing – are there any opportunities for integration here?