Answerbag Introduces Social Q&A Application on Facebook

July 9, 2007; 04:45 AM
Answerbag™, a leading and independent social knowledge platform and a division of Demand Media, Inc., today announced its Facebook social question and answer application that gives users free reign to ask questions and get answers from a broad Q&A community without having to leave Facebook. The Answerbag Facebook Application allows users to post questions and receive answers from anyone on Facebook and from the entire Answerbag community.

Questions generated from the “Ask Questions, Get Answers” application are added to the growing Answerbag knowledgebase and can then be answered by users on Answerbag or from the Facebook community. Users can also see the questions their friends are asking, and can invite other friends to answer their questions and share knowledge with the people in their network. Answerbag’s reputation system will soon be added as well, so users can recognize each other for useful answers, and they can see which users are trusted.

“Answerbag continues to focus on enhancing the social Q&A experience, which now includes making Facebook the ultimate social utility with the new ‘Ask Questions, Get Answers’ application,” said Answerbag Founder and General Manager, Joel Downs. “Our user generated social Q&A application offers Facebook users an easy way to get the information they need from anyone on Facebook and the greater Answerbag community without having to sign out of their profile.”

For over four years, the Answerbag community of users has shared and vetted knowledge that’s created a structured database of 300,000 unique questions and 1,000,000 user-vetted answers that are organized into 3500 categories covering hundreds of verticals including Health, Autos, and Real Estate.

Answerbag is unique in the social Q&A arena because it removes duplicate questions to make finding answers straightforward, and its questions are always open to new answers and ratings, so users can thoroughly vet all questions and answers in the knowledgebase. Answerbag is the industry’s leading platform that is entirely focused on the social question and answer space 24/7 and dedicates 100 percent of its resources to making the platform the ultimate destination for compiling, organizing and distributing user generated knowledge.

About Answerbag

Answerbag.com, a pioneer in the industry, is the only social Q&A platform where members ask questions, share answers, collaboratively evaluate information and build a permanent archive of knowledge and experience for the benefit of its visitors and the visitors of its partner sites. Web publishers, bloggers and forum moderators leverage the innovative Answerbag platform to provide live, social Q&A to their audiences. Founded in 2003, Answerbag is a division of Demand Media, Inc.

About Demand Media, Inc.

Demand Media™ is a social media company that connects content creators and large audiences with advertisers through its network of vertical media web properties. By using its proprietary social media tools and the unique distribution platform of the world’s second largest domain registrar, Demand Media provides an interactive, personalized and vertically-focused media experience for users. The privately held company was founded in May 2006 and is based in Santa Monica, CA, with offices in San Francisco and Seattle, WA. For more information about Demand Media, Inc., visit: http://www.demandmedia.com.

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