{"id":3570,"date":"2008-04-22T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-22T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T08:26:00","slug":"24-com-launches-answer-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/3570-24-com-launches-answer-website.html","title":{"rendered":"24.com launches Answer website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/answerit.24.com\/Common\/LandingPage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Answerit website<\/a> is a new online public forum that allows users to ask questions and get answers from members.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, U.S. visits to Question and Answer (Q&amp;A) websites have increased 889 percent, according to Hitwise, the world&rsquo;s leading online competitive intelligence service. <\/p>\n<p>The top two Q&amp;A websites are Yahoo! Answers and Wiki.Answers.com, which between them receive more than 91 percent of the market share of U.S. visits. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Online users are increasingly seeking advice from question and answer websites that leverage shared knowledge contributed across a community of experts and enthusiasts,&rdquo; says Heather Dougherty, research director, Hitwise. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The popularity of user generated media has helped to establish a category for social knowledge where consumers can obtain answers from a single aggregated source developed through others asking similar questions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to Elan Lohmann, General Manager of Social Networking and Media at 24.com: &ldquo;One of the core principles of the World Wide Web is that we live in a shared world where shared knowledge is valuable. Answerit is an online tool for South Africans to interact and share knowledge that is particularly relevant to their local experience.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>24.com&rsquo;s Answerit service is using a points service where users accumulate points by answering questions and assisting in selecting the best answer. It costs points to ask questions, delete your own question or answers and should your question be deleted due to abuse you&rsquo;ll have to fork out a few points for that too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24.com has launched Answerit, a new site on the 24.com network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}