Free Answers to Your Tech Questions–Fast
Sometimes when you have a question, you don’t just need an answer, you need a consensus. If you can relate to that, definitely give Ask500People a try. Unlike Yahoo! Answers and some of the more specialized question answering sites on the web, Ask500People seeks group approval of interesting questions before they are asked, through online voting that causes the most intriguing questions to rise to the top. The result is that you get a very large group of people around the globe providing answers to a concentrated set of questions, rather than a few, dubious answers in each case to less interesting ones.
Tech questions pop up frequently at Ask500People. However, I stick by a point I made in a previous post about online sites where you can get reasonably quick tech questions answered, which is ask your question at more than one site. So where else can you ask your tech questions and get good answers?
I still find the best answers to my tech questions at Protonic.com. It’s populated by a large community of volunteers who answer questions, and answers usually come back quite quickly. You can ask questions on anything from HTML, to CSS to what hardware to buy and get good responses.
Another site you can use if you value consensus answers is Circle Up. It’s been written about on this blog before.
You can also find good answers to tech questions at LittleBlackDog.com. If you look on the site’s page dedicated to networking, for example, you’ll find that nearly all questions receive several answers. You can ask questions on anything from Linux to web design.
Do you have a hardware question? I’ve found several good answers to those at Fixya.com.
Finally, Experts Exchange is a very good place to get tech answers as well. At this site, you begin with a series of points, and when you run out, you have to pay a small fee for more points. The quality of information is very good though.
Do you have any good tips on getting answers to tech questions?
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It’s not specifically for tech questions, but my project Qwizzy is for asking questions to specific people (for example, qwizzy.com/adam). We also have a widget you can place on blogs, so if you’re reading one of your favorite tech blogs and they have the widget installed, you can ask them a question.
We’re not officially launched yet, but will be in the next couple weeks once we complete our Facebook app which will bring all of that functionality inside Facebook so you can ask specific people in your network questions.
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U have been writing a lot on technology, I would like to ask you about the online desktops. There are so many online desktops available today like a ZOHO, Google aaps, Nivio and many more… which one according to you is a better option. Which one should I go for?
There’s a good community of question asker/answerers at LinkedIn. I’ve had good success getting answers to my questions from both people I’m connected to and those that I’m not.
A few geeks and I started askageek.com up just over a year ago to answer questions we would routinely get from family members and friends. It has since grown to where we accept questions from anyone and we try our best to answer all the questions that are submitted.
The upside, as we see it, is that our family members and friends who are not as technically inclined do not have to read though a lot of answers that might or might not be correct. They get an answer that just works.
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