Amazon Launches Answers Service Beta

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:22PM from the more-you-know dept.

Fennec writes "Amazon.com has launched a beta of a new service called Askville, yet another online answers service, flavored with "Experience Points, Levels, and Quest Coins." These coins will supposedly become useful some day on another Amazon service that's not actually open yet, Questville. If this virtual currency becomes useful, could Askville fill a place between strictly volunteer systems and pay-for-answer services like the now-defunct Google Answers? Or is it destined to fail in the already-saturated online Q&A market?"

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yeah right... by fattmatt · 2007-02-23 01:38 · Score: 0, Flamebait

it's gonna end up wikified ... a pile of misinformed $hithe@ds all believing each other bullshit and patting each other on the back ... whilst redeeming coins for crappy refurbished electronics on Amazon.