Looking for the hottest new social media app? Welcome Aardvark, a social search / expert search network. that is very much like instant messaging and Google in one. Venture Beat describes it as “...a new way to get answers from your friends. You email or instant-message your question to Aardvark, it figures out around half a dozen people you know who might have a good answer, then emails or IMs them for a response and sends what they say back to you.”
Now admittedly my first experience with Aardvark produced mixed results. To give it a whirl I asked the question “How can I track all the tasks I need to manage?”
Aardvark replied with “Got it. I’ll find someone in your network who knows about **sports**, and send them your question now. I’ll send you an answer in a few minutes!”
Sports? Who said anything about sports? Ok, that little glitch aside, seven minutes later Aardvark replied with the following IM “(From Niko C./M/NYC,NY, Re: **sports**) check out rememberthemilk.com; you can sync it to gmail also.”
Fair enough. RememberTheMilk is a good answer (not as good as SharedStatus mind you). Neither I nor Nico were able to figure out the sports classification in the end.
Aardvark (http://vark.com) has great potential as a search application (but it is not nearly as much fun as Let Me Google That For You). As a social media platform Aardvark looks to be a great way to disseminate “Expert” opinions (albeit one recipient at a time) and thus should be part of your arsenal. And let’s face it - twitter is starting to feel so yesterday.
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It figures out around half a dozen people you know who might have a good answer, then emails or IMs them for a response and sends what they say back to you…
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