Last week Answers.com sponsored VatorSplash, an event showcasing emerging technology, organized by Bambi Francisco at Vator TV.
Robert Scoble hosted the event, where start ups demoed and Mark Pincus of Zynga gave a talk.
SarahI, or Sarah, a fabulous WikiAnswers QA Engineer and our resident photographer, traveled all the way to Thailand and all she gave away was an Answers.com t-shirt… or several!
While exploring Ko Phi Phi Island, Sarah met a couple of junior smarties who became fast Answers.com fans; seems they all share a taste in fashion (and cuteness!).
One boy she met needed a little cheering up while his dad worked on a boat nearby. Hopefully his new t-shirt helped:
Another boy was happy to make friends with Sarah while his mom snapped a photo of them:
Turns out he is also a local celebrity who performs in a kids’ show at a boxing stadium:
Robin Wauters, a writer for TechCrunch, also known as a member of the Traveling Geeks, had this to say on his Twitter account at LeWeb:
Cool personal answers.com t-shirt #leweb http://post.ly/Eger
Couldn’t agree more.
Happen to be at Web 2.0 Summit this week in San Francisco? Answers.com has been participating - be sure to catch CEO and Founder Bob Rosenschein and Product Manager Shaya Loney at the kiosk.
Ready for a major announcement? Answers.com announced today a September comScore ranking of #13, up five positions from August. From today’s release:
…comScore data for September 2009. Answers.com’s combined U.S. unduplicated unique visitors reached 56.4 million in September, up 25% from 45.1 million in August. WikiAnswers had 46.3 million U.S. unique visitors and ReferenceAnswers had 21.4 million U.S. unique visitors in September.
According to comScore, Answers.com sites now have a higher audience than major brands such as CNN.com, craigslist and New York Times Digital.
In case you’d like a visual to take a mental picture:
Roi Carthy over at TechCrunch had this to say about the development:
What site has jumped five spots between August and September to become the 13th most visited site in the US, leapfrogging properties like New York Times and Viacom Digital?
Here are some hints: It’s listed on the NASDAQ. It was founded in Israel and its R&D center is located in Jerusalem. It has raised funding from high-profile angel investors Dr. Yossi Vardi and Ron Conway. Can you name the company?
The answer is— Answers.com.
Exemplifying that startups are long hauls, Answers.com, née GuruNet, has been plugging away since its founding in 1999. Ten years later, comScore’s September 2009 data places the reference and Q&A site as the 13th most popular site in the United States, pulling in 56.4M unique users. This is a whopping 25% increase on Answers.com’s August numbers.
Care for a fun fact? Based on unique visitors, WikiAnswers has crossed over and is the #1 community-driven Q&A site:
Congrats to the hard-working team behind Answers.com. Looking forward to more great news, products and site features!
Answers.com’s WikiAnswers is proud to be a sponsor of Forum One’s Online Community Summit, taking place today and tomorrow in Sonoma, California.
Answers Corp’s Chief Strategic Officer Bruce Smith will be speaking about the WikiAnswers Q&A community at the conference.
Here’s a little more background info about the conference:
The Online Community Summit is an industry-leading, invitation-only event bringing together leaders in online collaboration. The goal of the Summit is to allow practitioners from many disciplines — who would not ordinarily meet — the opportunity to share current and best experiences regarding online collaboration.
Here is the exciting news from Answers.com, which is launching its new product today at DEMO 2009 in San Diego:
New Answers.com Launches First Site to Combine Community with Hundreds of Editorial Resources under One Roof
International Languages Now Supported: Spanish, French, Italian & German
New Answers.com combines the power of the company’s WikiAnswers® community-driven content with hundreds of expert resources from licensed content on ReferenceAnswers™. Users can ask anything and automatically receive the best available answer, which could be user-generated or from an editorial resource. Through the contributions of a large and growing community, answers can be edited and improved over time.
To sum it up, Answers.com has officially combined its user-generated WikiAnswers Q&A database and the licensed content of ReferenceAnswers to create one powerful answer engine, designed to offer you the best answer to your question.
In addition, four new language Q&A communities have opened up. These new international versions are:
Watch Answers Corp’s onstage presentation at the DEMO conference! Visit www.demo.com TOMORROW (Wednesday), shortly before 11:48 a.m. EDT (8:48 a.m. PDT).
UPDATE: Below is the footage of the talk given by Bob and Shaya at DEMO…
