On the eve of a guru world
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You can solve many questions of your neighbors. Great. Because there’s something good to be an ‘expert’ of something these days.
After Ether, the expert platform build with VoIP telephones, Qunu, the expert network build with and for a Jabber client, here’s Guruza, another ‘guru’ network, or more seriously a social problem-solver network.
But no need to compare the service, Guruza cofounder Rich Collins said it straight. “In fact, our original idea (and full implementation) for Guruza was almost EXACTLY like Qunu,” he commented on Techcrunch. “You searched for experts, chose the experts that you wanted to talk to and then chatted with them using a Jabber client or the web client.”
When we look closer to Qunu (see our review) and Guruza, the later shows a big difference. You first enter a question, set a reward for the answer and the web site returns a link that you could use to garner people in a IM conference. On Qunu, you set an appointment with an expert for free and hook up together on a IM one-to-one chat session.
One suggestion: To increase the meritocracy aspect of such networks, they should introduce a rating system. They could get inspired by taking one of those traditional rating grids set by counseling world-class agencies like Andersen or McKinsey.
Jun 30, 2006 | By Nuno
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Hey just doing a PR sweep using technorati and found your article. Thanks for spreading the word about Guruza.
We do have a rating system of sorts. We rate users (asking questions), not experts (answering questions). We calculate the percentage of answers that result in a reward. For example (from my current stats):
“People succeed in answering Rich Collins’s questions 49% of the time (17 successes in 35 attempts).”
All experts are presented this information before answering a question. This way they can decide if it is worth their time to attempt an answer.
In addition, we are considering adding a “Hey I got Stiffed!” feature. This will allow experts to give the user a “demerit” if they feel they answered the question properly but did not get credit.