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Pretty sure the article is referring to: http://vark.com/ http://vark.com/ It's a social expertise-based Q&A site. Email me for an invite.
by bkudria 18y ago
Pretty sure the article is referring to: http://vark.com/ http://vark.com/
It's a social expertise-based Q&A site. Email me for an invite.
- potatolicious 18y agoI've been using Aardvark for the past couple of weeks, and I'm sorry to say but it is truly pointless. Almost all of the questions are specific to the Bay area, and most of them are just people looking for Google-replacements, e.g. "What's the half-life of Uranium-235?". Only a tiny portion are well-worded, opinion-based questions like the system was meant to handle. Even then, the system does not seem to respect my preferences at all, and continues to send me questions out of my field of expertise or geography (which the system knows), and fails to learn from this constantly. The only part of Aardvark that impresses me is their uncanny ability to assign categories to submitted questions. Also, the system does not inspire confidence at all, when it takes a full day to get you two answers to a simple question, and half the time your question goes unanswered. The system suffers horribly from the chicken-and-egg users problem and I don't feel like it's structured to overcome it.