What is the next big thing? What is the latest Social Media fad? Can you predict what is going capture the imagination of the cyber world next?
This page is where hopefully you and I can leave comments pointing each other to these new resources, and where we can discuss their various pros and cons.
So what do people think of Quora? Some aspects seem a little creepy from what I have heard, but it strikes me as almost a more moderated version of Wikipedia, just more fact based.
I think Quora’s sign-up interface is confusing, making it very easy to sort of opt-in to things without realising that’s what you’re doing or that you could do otherwise. If that were cleared up I think it wouldn’t be striking people as so creepy. But I haven’t played with it much anyway so there’s probably all sorts of things I’ve missed.
The ability to sign in using Twitter, and then have your Quora id automatically follow your Twitter friends also on Quora is both a little creepy and yet at the same time interesting. I can see why they did that, but I am unsure if that s a good thing or not.
I have to say I echo the sign up – I’m annoyed at the requirement to use my “real name”. There may well be features of quora that mandate that choice, but to expect it of me with no justification at all is simply improper in an online environment.
That stopped my explorations. I don’t deal in bad faith.
If it’s similar to Wikipedia I don’t see the need to sign up. There doesn’t even seem to be a page to explain what Quora is. I never sign up for anything until I know what it’s about. A simple ask, you’d think.
I joined Quora a few weeks ago, because several of my international genealogy/family history contacts asked me if I had joined. If its gaining popularity overseas, I wanted to see why. And anything that helps me in my specialist field is welcomed!
At the moment I am just playing and evaluating. Watching and lurking. I don’t post on a new social media platform till I have some idea of what I am doing.
I have linked it to my Twitter account, and note that you can link to a WordPress or Tumblr account. I do have a WordPress account, but no blog there (yet?).
I blog on Blogger (just newly).
Am happy to come back and report progress as and when!
I’m writing a post in banjoetc about this – you’ll see it tweeted soon enough. It’s not a library tool in the sense Quora is, but my thing as you good folks may know is around us having conversations about the tools we as professionals should be using to tweak our game.
I would totally think we should have that that here as well as at my little home.
It’s the win.
Google notebook link:
http://www.google.com/notebook/ (hurr durr)
Blogpost for when it’s live:
http://banjosinthestacks.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/virtual-workspaces-google-notebook/
Righto. Try and beat me to it!
It’s an old next best thing, but I have just hooked into dropbox.com and I think it is the best file sharing service I have seen yet…