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Interestingly, a large chunk of the traffic comes from SF and the Bay Area. That leads me to believe that Quora is to a large extent a Bay Area echo-chamber.
by ajays 16y ago
Interestingly, a large chunk of the traffic comes from SF and the Bay Area. That leads me to believe that Quora is to a large extent a Bay Area echo-chamber.
- edw 16y agoQuora is like TED in that it provides exhibitionists and flatterers of the powerful an opportunity to meet up with voyeurs and those who get a rush from being in the presence of quote-genius-unquote. You are what you like, and as soon as everyone knows that you are a Hans Rosling nerd, it is a certainty that you'll be significantly closer to saving the world—and getting a million Twitter followers. What's not to like?
- ootachi 16y agoThat's the problem with Quora for me. When it first started to get big, I tried searching for things that weren't startup- or Silicon Valley-related, and the results were practically nonexistent. Maybe that's changed since then, but it didn't give me a good first impression. Not that there's anything wrong with a Q&A site for startups - that may well be a very good niche - but Quora clearly seems to want to be something more, and it seems that they're having a hard time breaking free.
- JayNeely 16y agoI've found Quora to be great for non-tech topics. Human relationships, cooking, pop culture, lifestyle topics are all active on Quora and contain good content.
- shadowsun7 16y agoThis is slowly changing. For instance, see: http://www.quora.com/Ashton-Kutcher http://www.quora.com/Ashton-Kutcher
- andrewcooke 16y agoHa. I guess you don't realise he's on there because he's an investor in early tech companies in the Bay Area? And he's been there for ages.
- shadowsun7 16y agoI do know that. My point is that of his answers: Kutcher is a movie industry insider, and he responds to questions about the movie industry.
- thwarted 16y agoI found his content on quora hard to read because of the spelling mistakes and general lack of formatting (stream of thought style of writing does equate to easy to consume writing). And even though people had suggested edits, he never seemed to accept them/fold them back into his post.
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- shadowsun7 16y agoPatience. Most big things start from saturating a specific, comparatively-small community. They then expand with leverage. (E.g.: Facebook, Etsy, Flickr, Twitter, Foursquare, etc et all)