Posts Tagged ‘quora’

Posted on May 3, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

What is the greatest internet failed startup of all-time? Ask Quora!

flickr photo by dierken

While browsing Quora the user generated questions and answers site that’s created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it I came across an interesting question. It was “(93/3) What is the all-time greatest failed Internet startup?

Some of the answers brought back memories of the first dot com bubble and included startup such as etoys.com, Amp’d Mobile, Boo.com, Friendster, and Pets.com. The amount of money the startups blew is just plain crazy. 200 million here, 150 million there. No wonder the Lean Startup movement has gained so much momentum.

via (93/3) What is the all-time greatest failed Internet startup? – Quora.

What do you think is the greatest internet failed startup of all-time and why?

Posted on April 6, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

The infographic that answers the growth questions about Quora

via KISSmetrics Web Analytics
hat tip Mashable

Like Quora? Read:
The question and answers guide to Quora: How to get the best value out of Quora and look smart at the same time.

Posted on January 29, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Google search algorithm changed with more focus on original content

Yesterday Matt Cutts posted that Google has changed their search algorithm to focus more on original content. Below is an excerpt from his post:

My post mentioned that “we’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content.” That change was approved at our weekly quality launch meeting last Thursday and launched earlier this week.

This was a pretty targeted launch: slightly over 2% of queries change in some way, but less than half a percent of search results change enough that someone might really notice. The net effect is that searchers are more likely to see the sites that wrote the original content rather than a site that scraped or copied the original site’s content.

Matt’s post summary is the short version from his post on Google’s offical blog entitled “Google search and search engine spam“. This is great news as it seems like the beginning of Google trying to remain the #1 search enginge and fight off what seems like a series of attacks and competition from new search engines and startups such as Wolframalpha, Blekko and the continue traffic increase of Microsoft Bing.

Note, Matt stated that the Google search algorithm change will only affect 2% of search queries but don’t let the small number fool you. Google is under fire about providing relevant content to the answers of search quires and startups like Quora does.

My recommendation for you is to keep providing good, original content and for Google to keep updating their search algorithm or keep buying startups that are answering the questions that people use to search Google for.

Posted on January 25, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Question: Which Quora users have the most followers? Answer: Ask QuoraTop

Hat tip to Louis Gray who posted about QuoraTop. QuoraTop provides a list of the Quora users who have the most followers. It’s like twitaholic but for Quora. Is this another sign that Quora is the next big thing? Maybe but that’s just tech bubble talk. Anyway, I thought Quora was all about questions and who could provide the best answers and not about who has the most followers… Louis said it best, “The second-most popular activity on the Internet (ego stroking)” .

Regardless, QuoraTop started because of the “Which Quora users have the most followers?” question on Quora and thus QuoraTop was born. QuoraTop was created by Matt Mastracci and is not affiliated with Quora.

Instead of who has the most followers on Quora what I would like to see is who has provided the best answer, or the most answers, or who has been thanked the most on Quora. All of those list including who has the most followers could come from Quora themselves via a soon to be announced API.

What type of Quora list would you like to see from Quora’s API?

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Posted on January 19, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

29 of your top social media questions answered on Quora

Quora, the question and answers social network that keeps on buzzing remains a mystery to some and a great resource to others. You can blame some of Quora success on all of the social media practitioners who are asking tons of social media questions to either be looked at as a thought leader or they’re just tired of searching google.

Using the PostRank extension for Google Reader to filter the social media rss Quora topic feed, here are the top 29 social media questions answered on Quora in the last seven days.

1. Why does Google fail at social media?

2. For my website, should I chose AddThis, ShareThis or Twitter’s and Facebook’s specific sharing tools?

3. What is a community manager?

4. What are examples of successful “green” social media campaigns?

5. On Quora, why has the quality of the Social Media Marketing topic declined so extraordinarily, so quickly?

6. How do I export the ‘like’ list of a Facebook company/brand/fanpage?

7. What are the biggest mistakes one can make in managing a social media account?

8. What are the issues of scaling Twitter for customer service?

9. What are some ways schools are using social media tools to make the classroom more effective?

10. How relevant is the Klout score?

11. What are the best PR and social media blogs to follow?

12. What is social targeting?

13. What are the biggest legal concerns with using social media?

14. How different is Social Media Strategist from a Digital PR Consultant?

15. Is keeping a locked account in Twitter a good practice?

16. Is it a good practice to duplicate content in Twitter and LinkedIn?

17. What are some recommendations for good social media and/or digital marketing conferences to attend in 2011?

18. What are good ways to become more influential on Twitter using Quora?

19. How can one prove to a more traditional marketer that social media is essential for a food truck’s success?

20. Which universities are effectively using social media?

21. How could the functionality of Facebook Groups be improved ?

22. What if in the future a “Social Scoring” system like Klout or PeerIndex, would determine, just like credit reports do, your job hiring, promotions, life, etc?

23. Is there a social media website to complain about a customer service from an online company?

24. What is a “social object” in social media context?

25. Why might someone want to follow 1,000+ people on Twitter?

26. What are the best practices or interesting case studies about social media for non profit organizations?

27. Why should an established private community switch from a mailing list like Yahoo groups to a microblogging tool such as Socialcast or Yammer?

28. What should Google do to completely overhaul its social strategy?

29. Do I really need Quora in addition to Facebook and Twitter?

Bonus
What is a Social Media Guru ?
How many Social Media Gurus does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

If you didn’t see your social media question listed you can follow all of the social media topics on Quora here: http://www.quora.com/Social-Media