I went ahead and added myself to Qunu and using the jabber service gave it a list of tags on which I consider myself an ‘expert’. Over the past few days I’ve had several invites popup in Psi. I accepted three so far today. The topics requested were Outlook, Firefox and XMPP. The experience was very good for me. I can only assume the user who asked the questions got something out of it because I don’t know if I can view my ratings yet.
As you can see below, its very straightforward. You are invited to a groupchat as if this were any other random chat you wanted to start.
BTW I have interviewed the three guys working on this project, I’ll be publishing that soon.
Qunu reminds me of Sunflower Network – http://www.sunflowernetwork.com — Sunflower provides a commercial service similar to Qunu, although it connects experts with people who need help by voice and screen sharing, in addition to text chat.
What’s the business model for Qunu?
SR
I think that’s still under discussion.
They did tell me that they plan on the asking of questions to be free but I’m a little concerned about how that will work. See my subsequent post about Qunu. If its free, it’ll attract idiots. If a modest amount is charged, it might be taken more seriously.