LinkedIn now has an "Ask" feature February 10, 2007 11:50 AM Subscribe
LinkedIn now has an "Ask" feature.
Questions lead to answers, which lead to pageviews. Pageviews lead to ad revenue, which inevitably leads to more money for the site's creator(s). Don't be surprised if every blog has a dynamic Q&A session by the end of the decade.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 12:07 PM on February 10, 2007
posted by SeizeTheDay at 12:07 PM on February 10, 2007
And we'll have MeTa threads about all of them.
posted by languagehat at 12:23 PM on February 10, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by languagehat at 12:23 PM on February 10, 2007 [1 favorite]
Hey - people posted about Google Answers, Amazon's Question site, Yahoo Answers... just adding this one to the list.
posted by k8t at 12:27 PM on February 10, 2007
posted by k8t at 12:27 PM on February 10, 2007
wowsers!
posted by nj_subgenius at 12:35 PM on February 10, 2007
posted by nj_subgenius at 12:35 PM on February 10, 2007
wowsers!
I have absolutely no idea whether that's sarcastic or genuine. But that's MeFi for ya!
posted by languagehat at 12:40 PM on February 10, 2007
I have absolutely no idea whether that's sarcastic or genuine. But that's MeFi for ya!
posted by languagehat at 12:40 PM on February 10, 2007
Bow Wow is hosting a BET top-25 countdown right now and he's doing a really, really bad job. I just—I'm not sure if there was a better place to mention that.
Hi, k8t!
posted by cortex at 1:08 PM on February 10, 2007
Hi, k8t!
posted by cortex at 1:08 PM on February 10, 2007
who the hell cares? that work for ya?
Ah, so Schroedinger's cat is in fact dead. Thanks! (I agree with you, by the way.)
posted by languagehat at 1:10 PM on February 10, 2007
Ah, so Schroedinger's cat is in fact dead. Thanks! (I agree with you, by the way.)
posted by languagehat at 1:10 PM on February 10, 2007
How dare you post this to MeTa, rather than some petty horseshit grievance, k8t.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 1:16 PM on February 10, 2007
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 1:16 PM on February 10, 2007
Of all the latest Q&A sites, the LinkedIn one actually seems really smart. Imagine if you could only see questions from your 20 or 30 friends instead of the entire network of people on that site -- it seems a lot more useful being focused like that.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:22 PM on February 10, 2007
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:22 PM on February 10, 2007
I'm guessing the number of questions from Anonymous will be way fewer.
posted by Dave Faris at 4:32 PM on February 10, 2007
posted by Dave Faris at 4:32 PM on February 10, 2007
Imagine if you could only see questions from your 20 or 30 friends instead of the entire network of people on that site -- it seems a lot more useful being focused like that.
Or it could lead to even further group-think or a high school clique kind of atmosphere. I think what's awesome here is that since everyone looks at all of the questions, you're more likely to get a wide variety of answers. This is perhaps not so useful when the questions only have one answer, but when a question has a whole host of perspectives, like, "How best to raise my child in the city?" or "My g/f likes it when I shit on her face...what should I do?" (which, BTW, was a question here not too long ago), having a wider variety of eyes makes for interesting answers.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 4:38 PM on February 10, 2007 [1 favorite]
Or it could lead to even further group-think or a high school clique kind of atmosphere. I think what's awesome here is that since everyone looks at all of the questions, you're more likely to get a wide variety of answers. This is perhaps not so useful when the questions only have one answer, but when a question has a whole host of perspectives, like, "How best to raise my child in the city?" or "My g/f likes it when I shit on her face...what should I do?" (which, BTW, was a question here not too long ago), having a wider variety of eyes makes for interesting answers.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 4:38 PM on February 10, 2007 [1 favorite]
I thought it was chest-shitting? But agreed—diversity in the userbase is definitely a win for some classes of questions.
posted by cortex at 4:45 PM on February 10, 2007
posted by cortex at 4:45 PM on February 10, 2007
Now that I search for it, I guess it was more a general "shitting on me".
posted by SeizeTheDay at 5:06 PM on February 10, 2007
posted by SeizeTheDay at 5:06 PM on February 10, 2007
I can't help but think that always having to ask the same smaller group of people would sort of harm the usefulness of the service, no? I mean, isn't the great part of askme that ANYONE who happens to read the post and is a member can chime in to help out, even if you happen to be the one guy who just happens to work at an office with access to ancient ellis island immigration records on precisely the relative that joe-random-guy asked about?
posted by shmegegge at 5:11 PM on February 10, 2007
posted by shmegegge at 5:11 PM on February 10, 2007
No, I'm not comparing it to mefi or anything, I'm saying if some random yahoo at LinkedIn wanted to know how to get a job at my old college, and I didn't care much about LinkedIn, I'd probably see it and move on.
But if it was a member here or someone I knew from the blogging world that was connected to me, I'd be totally happy to give them the skinny on how best to accomplish what they want.
It's different on Ask MeFi -- there's a slight sense of helping everyone out and benefiting from it, but on a big business networking site like LinkedIn, doing anything there feels like doing work, and sometimes it's only worth it when it's for friends you know personally.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:23 PM on February 10, 2007
But if it was a member here or someone I knew from the blogging world that was connected to me, I'd be totally happy to give them the skinny on how best to accomplish what they want.
It's different on Ask MeFi -- there's a slight sense of helping everyone out and benefiting from it, but on a big business networking site like LinkedIn, doing anything there feels like doing work, and sometimes it's only worth it when it's for friends you know personally.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:23 PM on February 10, 2007
makes sense. i suppose i should have paid closer attention to what linkedin was all about.
posted by shmegegge at 5:38 PM on February 10, 2007
posted by shmegegge at 5:38 PM on February 10, 2007
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Lookit that.
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posted by tkolar at 12:04 PM on February 10, 2007