Toward the end of last year we covered a veritable cornucopia of question and answer sites. They mostly served as aggregation sites for members to post, answer, and rate questions. Yahoo effectively dominated the space, leveraging their user base and even adding an API. Q&A service Wis.dm has taken a different look at questions and answers, and added a Facebook application today.
Wis.dm is for simple yes/no questions, not about writing long answers to life’s most elusive questions. Within the Facebook application you can answer a stream of questions that appear on Wis.dm. Unfortunately you can’t ask questions through the application right now. As you answer questions, Wis.dm assigns you points and matches you with other users that answer questions similarly to you.
The long-term vision is to match up potential friends and help silo Wis.dm users into interest groups. Matching people based on their answer history is also gives them a clear way to insert contextual advertising into the question stream. Advertisers on Wis.dm will be able to target their ads based on a user’s question profile (i.e people who answer positively to sports questions, get the latest ESPN ad).
Seems pretty similar to Jyte ( http://jyte.com ), except Jyte hasn’t made it onto facebook, yet.
Am I missing something? Why in the world is this even being covered? Go ahead and just add this to the dead pool. DUMB!!!!!!!!
what is the name of the application on facebook?
KC: You won’t “get it” until you try it and you don’t need to be a facebook user to do it. The wis.dm site works just fine on its own. Just check it out, and then tell us what you think … Thanks
People think DeadPool / so quickly ….
DeadPool criteria is basically a company that has taken funding and is - illlogical
- This while illogical - seems to be a smaller / powered by RunSense /
- could last for years making $0 dollars.
what’s the point? does this company do anything worth paying attention to? my prediction: within a few months they’ll add “maybe” and then shortly after that, a text input box…
So, I can’t get to their site right now.
Vouchon, these guys, and a list of others (sodahead, etc) are taking new “spins” at “question answer” services, and every time, somebody makes the obligatory reference to Yahoo Answers.
Fact: Answerbag is 4 years old, and can’t figure out how to grow further - just look at their quantcast or compete stats.
Fact: FunAdvice (yep, that’s me, and I’m a former Yahoo…and I *gave* Steve Lazuka the idea to buy Answerbag). FunAdvice is older than Answerbag, WAY older than Yahoo Answers, and guess what? We’re the FASTEST growing Q&A site on the planet.
We’re killing Askville, Live QnA, Yedda (yep, they’ve been covered here too, but failing miserably to gain traction), and over the next 18 months, we’re going to eat Yahoo Answers lunch.
Bold claim? Of course. But when we’re #3 in a space and get ignored by everybody, even though we’ve been growing the fastest of any site in the category for more than six months…that tells you something. Either Q&A isn’t “news” which it is news, else you wouldn’t be writing this.
OR because we don’t have a series a, b, or c, lack angel funding, and have a small team of six part time employees - we’re simply not newsworthy. Our feature list is the biggest of any site in the category, we’re growing the fastest, and bottom line: we’re going to win.
So keep writing about Q&A and adding link value to Yahoo Answers. It’ll only make me smile bigger when people scratch their heads & wonder how FunAdvice owned them.
Thank you Dave! I was starting to wonder if I was going insane.
Hey, I’ll give credit where credit is due but points for yes or no answers? Gee what a great idea. I think I’ll start a site that offers smiley face stickers in exchange for compliments.
wis.DUMB!
Wis.dm is fantastic for having fun while socializing and learning what other people’s opinions are which really is beneficial for personal growth and self-exploration, I mean if you care at all about growing and developing as a person, some people are content to stay just as close minded as they ever were.
Yes, some of the questions are asinine, but the majority can be really thought provoking regardless of if you can only answer yes or no. I am learning quite a bit about who I am and how I appear to others.
Socializing, making friends, learning, inquiring, having fun, and growing as a person are great ways to spend time online. Don’t be so close minded until you give it an honest try.
QnA on the web should be fun, easy and infotainment first and foremost. If I am more serious about any sort of question I’d be more likely to seek out and expert or go to a specialised site or forum on a topic. It’s not all about getting your questions answered, it’s also about being able to share the knowledge latent within you, and learning from the communications of others.
Wis.dm is a site that strikes me as a little mindless at times given the Yes/No format (yet it creates a lot of discussion), but that only supports my point that QnA sites should be fun (nice work FunAdvice), first and foremost.
I would like to see a Digg spy-like feature on QnA sites to make them more fun to watch what is happening - with mouseover answers to questions…
http://digg.com/spy
http://projects.alexbosworth.net/commentspy.html
http://www.buzznet.com/live/
http://leftlogic.com/lounge/articles/jquery_spy