Aardvark – amazing new concept service
I was recently introduced to a new online service called Aardvark (http://vark.com/) which is a question/answer service in the spirit of twitter. It integrates with IM clients, email, mobile phone and your browser and promises to be an amazing tool if harness properly.
The basic concept is this: You have a question, you post it in a simple interface for your mobile phone, IM, email or web browser – and then someone (or many someones) answer it for you. You get the notification via any method you wish and it is all free. That is a great service! However, for the people like me in the world, it also allows you to go online and browser for any questions to answer that you want. Not only that, but if you see a question that you then become interested in.. you can follow that question until it gets an answer you like!
To top it all off, you can subscribe to topics that you are well versed or interested in and Aardvark will randomly assign a question to you in IM or Mobile Phone and you can choose to answer it or pass it off to someone else with natural language like “sure” or “not now”.
All in all it is a great concept of taking the terrible Yahoo Answers and making it an on-the-go type service. Sure, why can’t I use a fraction of my knowledge about technology to quickly answer someones quick question? Just a great idea that I hope lasts. Tell you friends!
