Tried them while they were in beta, unimpressed.

have a try

I’m pretty sure Oyogi let’s you subscribe to an RSS feed of questions that match your specialities too - though the ‘traffic funk” statement is accurate.

Ryan, thank you for the correction. I’ll check this tomorrow and change the post if accurate.

Michael:

Sometime Techcrunch is giving me Database error from wordpress page.

Just wanted to let you know.

Hi cool post, nice site,
but the oyogi link misses the h in front of the ttp://
Techcrunch is great btw. totally addicted.

why only in english
where is the hebew

why only in english
where is the hebrew

cool

I use google answers, because I find that the results are significantly superior to the solutions offered by Yahoo’s product. I don’t mind paying for real research help, but obviously free is better.

Great product!
Best site in this young space.

Free is better, but I agree that free advice is not much of a help when you need personal (in contrast to public) solutions or answers, and an in-depth understanding of your situation or needs. Another notable site in the paid expert advice space is Kasamba (www.kasamba.com), whose 30,000 experts provide help through email, chat and phone. I really don’t think that free advice sites such as Yedda or Yahoo answers and paid advice sites such as Kasamba compete. IMO it’s different types of services, and they rather complement each other (if you can’t find free advice, try paid advice).

Good Work, Yedda Team!

BTW, the story on digg:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Stea.....a_Launches

Mike -

I have tried emailing Yedda in regards to the open position, but all their emails seem to be spitting errors and not delivering - if you speak with them could you let them know and then make an announcement when fixed?

Thanks…

Not impressed at all. The power of answers comes from dedicated small sites rather than generic ones. I’m more likely to find great free answers from newsgroups from people who I trust that they know their stuff.

JeredL9 - I am checking your report on errors with emails. You can contact me through email at my first name @ yedda.com, or, if you already signed up to Yedda, by clicking on my profile (http://yedda.com/people/9512186217351/) adding me as a contact and sending me a private message.

JeredL9, oops. Thanks for reporting this. We had an issue with some of the email boxes indeed. It should be fixed in 10 minutes.

I’m still not sure why I would WANT to receive emails about questions I’m capable of answering - it’s not like I’m sitting at home just hoping I can take time to help someone I don’t know.

Not a fan of the mix of ad payment (job listing) and your editorial in this article. It motivates the writer to say something good about the advertiser and keep those dollars flowing.

Shouldn’t the two be kept separate? You could include a JavaScript or something that shows jobs if they are available, trying to emulate keeping the business and editorial side of the house separate similar to major publications. If you know a full-page ad for a product is running with the article, won’t it influence writing?

For the record, Answerbag also allows RSS feeds and email notifications from any category you’re interested in. I won’t comment on Yedda because anything I say would surely be seen as biased. And, honestly, it probably would be.

More stats to chew on:

“… our new product Yahoo Answers already has north of 50 million users. ”

This quote is from Fortune, http://money.cnn.com/magazines...../index.htm

TechCrunch lesson #1: peak load synchronizes with lunch time.

We had a major users visits peak right now, which exposed an issue with our home page - that cool scrolling list of recent questions was, well, not implemented optimally… we disabled it for now (actually slowed down the scrolling considerably), so things should be back to normal in a few minutes.

I apologize for the performance hiccups you’ve been getting!

after signing up I filled in the male/female country/state/city area but couldn’t click the button

didn’t work in firefox on OSX

tried clicking the feedback but site wouldn’t respond

posting this here in hopes they read techcrunch

macewan, please contact me by email my first name @ yedda.com

Mazal Tov, Finally after long anticipation Yedda has launched its impressive service. We have already made a profile (in hebrew) on the company, which could be found here: http://www.thecoils.com/2006/05/31/yedda/
You may find more reviews on Israeli Web2.0 startups at the site.

Yedda is a good effort and well done. HelpShare (www.helpshare.com) also exists in this space and lets you ask quesitons for free (just enter $0 as the reward) and/or pay for the answer if it has value to you and you want to attract good experts. You can also change your reward as time goes on to get more attention.

HelpShare also has the ability to set up Expert Alerts which can be delivered via email, RSS or IM.

The best thing about HelpShare is that the focus is on powering EXISTING communities. So other web sites can get the power of Q&A without having to build it themselves. For an example check out Chris Pirillo’s site at http://helpshare.lockergnome.com.

And if you are a blogger, you can also generate revenue by becoming a HelpShare affiliate (http://www.helpshare.com/corp/hs_affiliate.asp) and you get a piece of all the transaction revenue from questions you generate or come from users of your site.

The debate between points and $ will continue and definately has a direct relationship on the quality/quantity tradeoff. While the sites at http://www.helpshare.com and Lockergnome are implemented in $, the HelpShare Q&A platform can be delivered in a points model as well.

So for sites who like Q&A or bloggers that want to engage as well, HelpShare has an answer.

Shalom Israel!!!

Yedda is Nice but I preffer http://www.fixya.com for tech solutions

Yedda copied a LOT of stuff from Funadvice.com, which has been around for more than three years. They even labeled us a competitor when doing research for their site in raw sugar or del.icio.us, I forget which.

Perhaps if FunAdvice got some funding, they’d be bigger news, but so far, Yedda & Yahoo Answers seem like “me too’s” of a far older product, imho.

Just to clarify. Wondir actually does have keyword-based “question-alerts” that you can sign up for, and they’ve had them for well over a year. Many people use these question-alerts. For example, if you sign up for the word “Techcrunch” at Wondir, any question that contains the keyword “Techcrunch” will be immediately sent to you by email when it posts (and you can adjust the number you receive as well). Thus this is not a feature that only Yedda has.

Yup, Wondir does that. In general, Wondir deserves its place in the hall fame for doing innovative Q&A for the longest time.

Several differences between the Yedda approach and the Wondir approach though -
1. Yedda lets you define just how much and how often you would like to participate (3 questions a week, or 5 a day, etc). So you won’t be flooded with the hundreds on question on Techcrunch

2. The Yedda semantic engine understands the semantic behind the “keyword” , so that if you subscribe to Techcrunch, Yedda understands that you’re likely to receive questions related to “Michael Arrington”, CrunchNotes, CrunchGear, “Web 2.0″, etc. Of course, the more relevant the question is to “TechCrunch”, the more likely you are to get it.

3. While you can subscribe to all questions on a topic, and you can answer any question you’d like, the default Yedda approach is to send a question to the “right” amount of people, so as not to flood everyone with a single question. It’s all about optimizing attention. There is only so much attention out there, and in a way, it’s a “waste” to have all this attention directed to a single question, leaving other questions unanswered.

I apologize for the somewhat lengthy comment, I hope the differences are clearer now though. Of course, each approach has its pros and cons.

Don’t anderstand. Thanks for reporting this.