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What Does It Take To Be A Leader In Social Business?

A recent study of Fortune and Global 250 companies found that only 10% of CIOs are actively involved in social activities. Can non-social CIOs affect social business change?READ MORE

Beepl Launches A Twitter-Simple, "Social Q&A Site"

People, meet Beepl. It launched to the general public yesterday in the online expertise-sharing/question-and-answer sphere after a short private test runREAD MORE

The Recommender: Arianna Huffington, Mark Frauenfelder, And More On What They're Loving This Month

From reading "Huckleberry Finn" to watching "Sherlock Holmes," here are our recommendations this month.READ MORE

Ask.com CTO Lisa Kavanaugh On Teaching An Old Answer Site Brand-New Tricks

"We are no longer a general purpose search engine," Kavanaugh tells us. Instead, Ask.com uses proprietary, semantic search technology to deliver answers from its own content banks, community, experts, and from all over the web. READ MORE

RIM Hacked In London, LinkedIn Price Tumble, Facebook Releases Messenging App, CERN Brings Large Hadron Collider To Homes

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ MORE

Questions About Discovery's New Q&A Site, Curiosity

Discovery Channel is getting into the question-and-answers website game today with Curiosity.com. It's glossy, media-rich, curated rather than crowdsourced. And possibly doomed.READ MORE

Want That Free Groupon? Innobell Is Here To Help

New add-ons come to the do-stuff-while-chatting app launched by a young Israeli entrepreneur.READ MORE

New Google Search Updates Seem To Be Putting The Kibosh On Demand Media Sites

In February, we predicted that Demand Media IPO'd just in time. New data about Google's search changes suggest we might have been right.READ MORE

Q: Who's Dominating Q&A Sites? A: No One

Q&A websites are plagued with problems that few have yet to solve.READ MORE

Quora Question of the Week: Why "Color"?

Thinking different?READ MORE

Congressman Eric Cantor Taps Quora Crowd for eDemocracy Experiment [Exclusive]

The Congressman's office has launched a Quora question to investigate how social media can enhance the legislative process.READ MORE

Quora Answer of the Week: The Facebook Hedgehog Edition

In which we learn how Sean Parker's odd (and prickly) obsession nearly became the Facebook mascot. READ MORE

The Quora for X

Suddenly the VC/entrepreneur meme for Q1-2011 is "The Quora for X." READ MORE

Picture This: When Consumers Have Questions, Do Brands Have Answers?

Not a day passes us by where someone isn't analyzing Instagram's rise to imaging stardom or Quora's domination of social engagement around questions and answers. Did the world need another imaging application?READ MORE

Q&A Site Quora Builds Buzz With A-List Answerers

It's not just what gets answered here, but who's doing the answering. No matter what your question, Charlie Cheever, Adam D'Angelo, and the Quora team are confident you'll find an expert answer on their site.READ MORE

Mechanical Turk's Unsavory Side Effect: Massive Spam Generation [Updated, Amazon Comments]

Amazon's Mechanical Turk human computing system is a handy way to get repetitive tasks done cheaply, quickly, and in ways that code can't compete with. But is the Turk being used to perpetrate massive amounts of spam? New research suggests yes.READ MORE

How LawPivot Could Disrupt the Legal Field

A new online service expedites the process of finding attorneys and legal advice. Here's why it could upend the most basic practices of an entire profession.READ MORE