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The best way to get users to answer questions is by matching the right questions with the right people.

Beepl does exactly that by measuring users' interests, their involvement in various topics, the quality of their contribution and the level of their expertise within a specific field.

We call it a social expertise footprint: http://alpha.beepl.com/user/stevenf

Beepl is a bit more like Vark, less like Yahoo! Answers - it's a question platform.

And we've got in twitter too (with the facebook soon to follow): http://alpha.beepl.com/twitter/

Launching in private alpha (or maybe even going live) in September 2010.

What do you think?

PS - I'm getting in new features daily, plus it's running off of a single 0.5GB gogrid instance (nginx), it may be that there're some things temporarily broken....

Thanks,

Jan Paricka

http://alpha.beepl.com/user/jparicka

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OK, in the nutshell, the idea behind beepl is that the best way to get users to answer questions is by matching the right questions with the right people.

Beepl does exactly that by measuring users' interests, their involvement in various topics, the quality of their contribution and the level of their expertise within a specific field.

We call it a social expertise footprint: http://alpha.beepl.com/user/stevenf

Beepl is a bit more like Vark - it's a question platform.

And we've got in twitter too (with the facebook soon to follow): http://alpha.beepl.com/twitter/

Launching in private alpha (or maybe even going live) in September 2010.

What do you think?

PS - I'm getting in new features daily, plus it's running off of a single 0.5GB gogrid instance (nginx), it may be that there're some things temporarily broken....

Thanks,

Jan Paricka

http://alpha.beepl.com/user/jparicka

I see this when i click through your profile link:

http://cl.ly/3287295c175670b5d513

should I be seeing the edit profile form and the delete followers buttons?

It's still all confusing .. maybe a video walkthrough explaining the concept behind the site and the features would help. Why'd someone use this over Ardvark or quora or in the future, facebook Q&A?

also, the "Ask ____ a question" box is so easy to miss ..too much wastage of screen space since it requires me to navigate to the bottom of the page to post a question and there's a whole lot of blank space between the profile info (which for some reason comes across as a form) and the ask box

> Why'd someone use this over Ardvark or quora or in the future, facebook Q&A?

The fun part is that you do not have to use beepl in order to use beepl. For example - beepl already drives questions from twitter. And if people answer to them, beepl will reply on the responder's (twitterer) behind. Beepl is built to help - and that's precisely what it'll do. It connects questions with people based on their interests and expertise. Nothing in random on beepl (this is still in TODO). It's one great questions mashup. It also measures how or whether the question is interesting / not interesting. Also employs the semantic engine, custom built knowledge base, crm114 discriminator, question mutilator, etc.. so why would someone use this over Vark, etc? Because all these lack of these features. Their all brain-dead technology - more like phonebooks. Beepl is more like Internet 3.0, with AI, big brother and all that...

desigooner all great points, all taken in. Guys, this is exactly the type of feedback I hoped for. Thanks!

PS - I am looking for a blogger or someone who can help me to write up an about section for beepl. I can write code but this ... :-( Twitter me on @jparicka Looking forward to it! Thanks!

Your linked page includes in your interests "porn", "ass" and "vulgar". Remind me why I'd want these sorts of things being automatically included in a generated profile page?

Yeah, we measure those as well. They won't be displayed, though. I should probably mention that it's all about the significance. If you see twitter 7.52 and porn 0.012 means I casually enjoy porn, it does not make me a porn expert, whereas I know a great deal about Twitter. Probably more than this guy http://alpha.beepl.com/user/ImTaylorLautner Agree? Btw, user will have an option to override prepopulated footprint.. I've seen this in action and it's totally whickeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!

perhaps a line or 2 on how you measure these parameters that make someone an expert, it'd be helpful for people signing up.

I do not really know how to describe this...

It's a complex workflow....

:-(

For example, you can see how one "grow" the expertise as they use the site..

That's why this one is "bigger" http://alpha.beepl.com/user/rsvaskova

Than say this one: http://alpha.beepl.com/user/marknutter

..but they'll all grow in time.

So erm, .. this is where I am stuck. That's why I am looking for a blogger.. :-P

Viva la porn! :-P And I know who else likes porn... on twitter. I can sort for "porn". Neat! :-)

Little bonus - free wallpaper http://picasaweb.google.com/sopybeepl/BeeplArtwork#542634728...

And my Desktop right now http://tweetphoto.com/40827362

I need some feedback folks. Criticisms. Anything. Please..

And my (backbreaking) workstation http://tweetphoto.com/40301088

Guys, I think this might as well work! Agreed?

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