Yahoo! Answers global product strategy 08/09

Yahoo! Answers global product strategy 08/09

Dan, Mark and I(taking the picture so you can’t see me) updating the markets on latest performance metrics and what 2009 will bring for Answers… exciting stuff

Yahoo! Answers global product strategy 08/09 (29 words, 1 image, estimated 7 secs reading time)

Long term user engagement – what you can learn from World of WarCraft

How do you make sure your users keep engaged for good? On user generated websites like forums, Q&A sites and message boards you will always have a rather low percentage of highly engaged users that provide the biggest benefit to your site. Just like in the graph below you will see that a relatively small amount of users will contribute the most to your community.

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Content quality – the good the bad and the ugly

I’ve once heard the following explanation.

If you start a restaurant you will surely put knifes on the table. And although you know that knifes can and do kill people you will have to believe and rely on the fact that the guests will only use them to cut their food.

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Challenges and opportunities of a large scale social search product

I realize that it has been rather quiet here – but that’s only because I’ve been really busy working on Yahoo! Answers. It’s hugely interesting and exciting.

But there are a couple of questions and topics that are constantly on my mind and I thought I would share and discuss some of them with you.

Mimic the real world – is always a great thing to do

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Yahoo! Europe-Grenoble R&D – new offices opened Video

Just wanted to share a little video of the new Yahoo! offices in Grenoble, France. As some of our Answers engineers are located there I_m happy for them that they moved out of the old Kelkoo offices and into a new home – with so much more light and meeting rooms ;)

Yahoo! Europe-Grenoble R&D – new offices opened Video (52 words, estimated 12 secs reading time)
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