Oh Quora!
March 4, 2011 Leave a Comment
I have been on Quora a lot recently and perhaps that’s the reason why my blog has been unattended. I guess answering a question a day is enough to quell the writer in me. I’ve been on other QA sites before like Stack Overflow and Linked-in groups but none of them actually propelled me to register and take part. Quora is a whole different beast altogether.
Topics
The coolest part is that you can follow any topic you are interested in.
Interested in startups in India? Just follow http://www.quora.com/Startups-in-India
I’ve followed more than 50 topics and answered questions related at least half of them. And I have questions for the other half.
Voting
The up-votes and down-votes make it easier to find what you are looking for. And when you follow a person, you get to see what they voted on and the questions they followed. Never seen anything like it before.
Social graph
I guess the best part about Quora is that it drags in your social graph with you. Your online identity is tied to either you facebook or twitter profile. It keeps you honest to a certain degree.
You can catch me at http://www.quora.com/Shyam-Sunder
