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Quora Q&As come to iPhone, iPod Touch
Question-and-answer site Quora has buy ugg boots launched a new app for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The application, which was made available in Apple's App Store today, offers much of the functionality users find with the Web site version of the service. Users can ask questions, add answers on topics they're well-informed on, and search for questions on more than 60,000 topics, the company said. To add a bit more functionality to the application, Quora is also utilizing the iPhone's location ability to add a new feature, called "Nearby." That feature lets users view topics on a map, and add questions about (and read answers about) the places or things around them. The Nearby feature also lets users explore other areas around the world to ask questions on topics related to a particular place. Initial work on Quora began in 2009, black ugg boots and the service was officially launched to the public in June 2010. Since then, the question-and-answer service, which was founded by former Facebook employees Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever, has attracted a loyal following made up of fact-seekers and experts that head to the site each day in the hopes of finding (or providing) the best answers to pressing questions. Venture-capital firms are also seeing value in Quora. Last year, the company raised a reported $11 million in a round of funding led by Benchmark Capital. That round was based on ugg boots australia a valuation of $86 million. Perhaps most impressive, the company reportedly closed the round in March of last year--a few months before its service was even made available to the general public. Quora's iPhone app is available for free in Apple's App Store. The company said in a statement today that going forward, it plans to continue "supporting and developing the app." Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Besides his work with CNET, Don's work has been featured in ugg boots outlet a variety of other publications including PC World and a host of Ziff-Davis publications. Don writes product reviews for InformationWeek and is a regular contributor to Processor Magazine. You can visit his personal site at DonReisinger.com or if you would like to email Don with questions or comments, drop him a line at CNETDigitalHome@gmail.com. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, ugg boots sale United Kingdom posting at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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