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Monday, April 14, 2008

Get your questions answered @ChaCha

I heard about the answer-service ChaCha a couple weeks ago. The first question I asked it was "Would a veggie burrito make a good lunch?" A couple minutes later, I got a response that said "A veggie burrito would make an excellent lunch. It's fast and cheap and vegetarian to boot." Now that's the kind of reinforcement I need!

Well now ChaCha is available via Twitter. You can read about the integration on their site. But it's pretty simple:
  1. Follow the Twitter user ChaCha
  2. Send your question as an @ reply (e.g. "@chacha Does it matter if the soil is wet or dry before re-potting a houseplant?")
  3. A couple minutes later you'll get your answer ("@goldman Let the pot go dry. With your fist, bang the bottom of the old pot and the plant, root ball and all, will come out intact.")
Good times.

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Chris said...

You say to send the question as an @ reply but the ChaCha site says to send it as a direct message.

Did I misread their site? It's from the link you post.

Chris

4/15/08 2:22 AM  
Anonymous Anna said...

Incredible! Now i keep thinking all day of questions to ask. Will be interesting to follow the development.

4/15/08 12:27 PM  
Blogger Jason Goldman said...

@chris: you can use either @ replies or direct messages. Use the former if you don't mind your question and answer being shown publicly (which I find to be part of the fun).

4/15/08 12:36 PM  
Blogger Jim Labadie said...

That's pretty cool! I'll definitely check it out!

4/25/08 1:29 PM  

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