I was thinking how useful a mobile version of Yahoo Answers would be. Email or text a small question and get responses from people on the Internet. They could be paid fractions of a dollar as on Mechanical Turk, or just get “community points” (isn’t it great that a site can run on community points?) as on Yahoo Answers.
Brendan points out it is already in the works: Amazon’s NowNow. Anyone have an invite?
Amazon should look to copy the interface and usability of Yahoo Answers. Compare a question at Amazon’s Askville with a question on Yahoo Answers.
I think a mobile Yahoo Answers will have unpredicted use cases, similar to Twitter vs. blogging. I imagine also sending camera phone pictures. What is this animal? What does this sign say?
July 18, 2008 at 10:34 am
Ahhh that would be so useful! I have Yahoo answers on my phone but it is difficult to use because it isn’t formatted to work properly with my phone. I can’t answer other questions! Maybe you should suggest this to Yahoo?
February 25, 2009 at 11:45 pm
I was just thinking about this. I needed to ask a quick question but it won’t post the question in the correct category so its kind of pointless. If you hear of this being created PLEASE let me know lol