Aardvark Social Search Service Arrives
techcrunch.comI've been using this for a little while. It's pretty cool, although I always find it humorous that questions about Python (the language) get categorized as 'reptile', but then actually get routed to someone who knows about the language after all.
Heh. I had an Erlang question classified as "art". It would be interesting to understand how they build and categorize their vocabulary dictionaries.
we were notified of this recently and are/have addressing/ed the issue
i got oodles of invites to hand out ... just reply to this post with your e-mail or @reply davidadewumi on twitter and will send you one
Please leave --
first name e-mail three interests/specialties
thanks!
Me please! mike_agar@hotmail.com
Thanks.
thanks!
Kevin
lacker@gmail.com
for interests let's try:
python, math, algorithms
pete pete@datawrangling.com python, machine learning, statistics
thanks!
Joe
joepestro at gmail
rails javascript python
Thanks! thepanister
thepanister2000-mazika@yahoo.com
for interests:
Artifical intelligence, Data mining, and algorithms!
I find this approach really exciting. The fact that it builds into existing communication channels is very very cool, and the idea of a scalable real-time service is powerful especially for mobile. I like the idea of more services embedding directly into my core communication -- chat, phone, email.
I've been a beta user of this since the middle of 2008. It's a great service.
(I have invites if they're still not open. Use the contact info in my profile if you want one.)
Hmmm... This is also the name of a (fairly old) regional search engine - www.aardvark.co.za.
Looks nice.
ChaCha tried something like this and failed before converting to their SMS service.