What is quora ?

Quora is a Question and Answer website founded by ex-Facebook employees D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever, which was finally launched for testing in January 2010. It is the fastest growing Q/A website that got perfect identity over the internet in just few months. The reason behind Quora’s success is to supply the kind of information that an information seeker needs, when quality is the primary issue.

Quora is a platform where you are allowed to ask a question and post a response for the questions in your field of expertise. It is more flexible than Google answer, facebook answer, yahoo answer and Stack Overflow.

“Quora is best known for its flexibility, where anyone can be the author of the question and answer both. A question asked by one people can be modified by other to make it more appealing and descriptive. You can assume Quora as an online encyclopedia where you find people from everywhere and queries with right solutions for everything.”

Quora is a combination of Twitter Follow policy, Facebook posts and Yahoo Answers. Where you can:

• Follow people’s questions and your favorite conversations like Twitter’s follow functionality.
• Post your opinions and status on your profile like facebook.
• Ask question and expect an answer from experts.
• Vote and comment like social networking websites.

Is Quora a Social Bookmarking website?

Quora is not basically a social Bookmarking website, it was brought in as social network for knowledge, and it includes a lot of extended features like Digg, twitter and Facebook and other social Bookmarking platforms. Quora has some features which make Quora look like a social Bookmarking website, here you are allowed to vote on others questions and posts, comment on issues, and share your thoughts and like via posts.

Features of Quora:

1. Your identity: In Quora you have your personal page (About me), where you are allowed post some information about yourself so that your profile visitors can know about you, your activities, hobbies and interests.
2. Your profile: This is an image of you which demonstrate your online presence and ability, everything you do on Quora is visible on your profile. Finally it works as your activity feed which depicts your exercise over the internet. It shows every one you follow, every question you ask, every question you have answered and all your online activities.
3. Get followers and follow them: This functionality is borrowed from twitter which lets you follow other people and vise versa. Not only people even you are allowed to follow Questions, Answers and Posts made by others and you.
4. Follow what you like: InQuora you have an ability to browse the issue of your interest which already exists in Quora knowledgebase. You get regular updates of the topics you follow.
5. Ask the experts: Quora is knowledgebase for every idea where you will find experts for every theme. In the section Questions you are allowed to ask a question and wait for answer from the experts. You can modify your question in future to make it more appealing to get answer.
6. Be an expert: Here you can give response to any question of your proficient theme, you can also edit your response in future if you want any modification.

Finally, the primary goal of Quora is to be an online encyclopedia with social networking to make finding resources easily, where people are the sources and destination.

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