My latest project is now in public beta: AskMeGo. It's a site that lets you find other people based on a shared interest in a certain topic.
Anyone can register on the site and choose categories that they'd like to chat about, and write a brief description of their experience in that category. People coming onto the site can browse through the advisors currently online, and click to start chatting with one, or search for people in a specific category. If there is isn't anyone who has the expertise you are looking for, your can request an advisor, which posts your request/question to the community.
We support all the major IM networks, so it's pretty easy to sign up and then respond to requests as the come in over IM. We also support offline notifications, so if a particular person you want to chat with isn't available now, you can request a notification when they come online, and we will send it out when you are next both available to chat.
While online forums have given people the ability to do this sort of thing for a while, their asynchronous nature and group nature makes it a different experience than the more intimate 1:1 real-time experience we want to create. And chat rooms of course have a diffusion of responsibility that leads them to lowest common denominator interactions.
Check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks!
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Anyone can register on the site and choose categories that they'd like to chat about, and write a brief description of their experience in that category. People coming onto the site can browse through the advisors currently online, and click to start chatting with one, or search for people in a specific category. If there is isn't anyone who has the expertise you are looking for, your can request an advisor, which posts your request/question to the community.
We support all the major IM networks, so it's pretty easy to sign up and then respond to requests as the come in over IM. We also support offline notifications, so if a particular person you want to chat with isn't available now, you can request a notification when they come online, and we will send it out when you are next both available to chat.
While online forums have given people the ability to do this sort of thing for a while, their asynchronous nature and group nature makes it a different experience than the more intimate 1:1 real-time experience we want to create. And chat rooms of course have a diffusion of responsibility that leads them to lowest common denominator interactions.
Check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Other team members' posts:
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