Type in a question and it will find people on Twitter and Facebook in your social network who are best able to answer that question.
It is for the specific situation where (1) someone you know should know the answer to a question but you don't know who and (2) you don't mind everyone in the world potentially knowing which question you asked and (3) you haven't asked too many questions like this which have been answered by the same people.
For example, any blog or twitter posts asking for advice might be turned into aardvark queries. Some emails as well.
The most killer app could be within companies. If this actually worked it would be like a telepathic routing protocol. Better than the distraction of a mass email, and potentially less maintenance than a wiki. Getting it to work in a biz environment would probably require a whole different set of features for prediction (especially mining of email networks like Palantir and Cataphora).
My main problem with it is that as currently formulated it would have to get amazingly intelligent to beat the speed and privacy of a search box.
Perhaps a revised version would just take my query and tell me who to ask rather than directly routing the query there. This way I can bother them only if I think they'll actually have the time, give a good answer, haven't bothered them before, etc.
ramanujan|16 years ago
It is for the specific situation where (1) someone you know should know the answer to a question but you don't know who and (2) you don't mind everyone in the world potentially knowing which question you asked and (3) you haven't asked too many questions like this which have been answered by the same people.
For example, any blog or twitter posts asking for advice might be turned into aardvark queries. Some emails as well.
The most killer app could be within companies. If this actually worked it would be like a telepathic routing protocol. Better than the distraction of a mass email, and potentially less maintenance than a wiki. Getting it to work in a biz environment would probably require a whole different set of features for prediction (especially mining of email networks like Palantir and Cataphora).
My main problem with it is that as currently formulated it would have to get amazingly intelligent to beat the speed and privacy of a search box.
Perhaps a revised version would just take my query and tell me who to ask rather than directly routing the query there. This way I can bother them only if I think they'll actually have the time, give a good answer, haven't bothered them before, etc.
idebug|16 years ago