Check out some news on the Psi front: What we’re doing – Psi Forum

Also, I haven’t seen anything else about this, maybe they want it hush-hush. Oh well. As recently blogged by Justin Kirby, Qunu is an expert matching service. You’ve seen these before, Yahoo and Google and several smaller companies during the dotcom bubble tried their hand at it. The premise is to provide a place for people to ask questions, and then pay a modest amount for someone to come up with the answer. Its like IT consulting on a tiny scale. Of course, the subject could be anything, doesn’t have to be technology-related at all. Qunu takes this model but brings it into the instant world we live in today. So you ask a question, and through some magic on the back end, you are matched up with an expert in the subject–in live chat. How is this different from a livechat thing on hundreds of corporate websites already? The experts aren’t employees–they are you and me. Yes, the back end users Jabber. Duh. It would be pretty boring to me if it didn’t!

I don’t actually know many details at this point, but I plan on digging. You can try it yourself, too. Here’s a quote from Justin’s blog:

* Use the site at alpha.qunu.com. This is simply a custom jabber client via html and javascript.
* Register with quser.alpha.qunu.com
* Add quser.alpha.qunu.com to your roster via a subscribe request
* Add quser@qunu.com to your roster

/me goes to create a Qunu profile.