Today I received an invite to the Hunch private beta, which was pretty exciting, usually when I apply for these things I never hear back from them : (
Anyway if you haven’t heard of Hunch, its a new take on the Questions and Answers format, instead of getting a written answer from another user, it takes you through a simple decision tree, basically it asks you multiple choice questions about the thing your looking for the answer to, after a number of steps it give you an answer.
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Recently I tried out friendorfollow a service that shows which of your followers are not following you back. Its a really simple well executed idea. However it’s lacks the ability to mass unfollow its results.
So after a bit of searching i discovered TwitterKarma, a simple web app to do just this task. Just enter your username and password (if your worried about giving the site these details you can always change your password before and after), choose only following from the drop down then go to the bottom of the page, click check all and hit the bulk unfollow button, then say goodbye to all those unwanted tweets!
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Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia announced today that his user generated search engine Wikia search will be closed down.
While the idea of a social search engine was an interesting concept, the results on Wikia search when I have used it have been terrible. Whales said today that the project is still one or two years away from being usable by the public and that the search engine was receiving an average of 10.000 uniques a month.
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I have just finished watching BBC’s Watchdog review UK text Q&A services.
Watchdog focused on the three largest suppliers: 118 118 (the market leader in the UK), Textperts (recently taken over by 118118) and AQA (Any Question Answered) 63336.
Watchdog which is a weekly consumer affairs programme in the UK, received complaints from viewers concerning the quality of responses, so they decided to investigate.
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In the last week (pretty much since this hoax), blogs have been awash with speculation about Twitters long awaited business plan.
The most commonly promoted idea is a paid for premium account that would offer some form of expanded functionality; like unlimited API credits or more characters per message. While I have no doubt that online marketers would snap up these features only a tiny percentage of normal users would be interested.
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My name is Christopher Lee and I'm co-founder of the questions & answers community Blurtit.com. Here I intend to share my insights, knowledge and opinions on things that interest me. Read more at my about page
