Social bookmarking or question and answers site?

[Tim Akinbo]

Hello orombo,

I've not been able to fully decide on this. When Stackoverflow was mentioned, I thought that would also be a cool model to work with and I'll like to bounce this with the orombo community. We have to decide if it's going to be social bookmarking ala Reddit-like app or a social question and answers site for the Nigerian tech community. So what are you suggestions?

- Tim Akinbo
http://firesta.mp/

[Damilare Onajole]

Hi Orombo,

Both ideas are actually necessary for the Nigerian tech community in my humble opinion. With the social bookmarking site, fledging developers and experts will be able to get relevant resources easily. On the other hand, the question and answers site will really create a community where fledging developers can be assisted to become better professionals.

Going along this light, how about having a social bookmarking feature in a question and answer site? Think about a contributing user of a question and answer site with a profile containing useful or favouraite links in form of a de.licio.us format?

Anything creative is possible, but most importantly, we should have simplicity in mind with an iterative focus.

Lets get this going.

- Damilare Onajole

[Seun Osewa]

Hello Orombo,

I think a Reddit clone will fare much better than a Stackoverflow
clone. When you ask programming questions (stackoverflow), you don't
really care whether the person who answers your question is a
Nigerian. But when you're discussing hot issues (reddit), you would
rather discuss them with people who are not that different from you.
You can't have too many communities.

Traffic stats: Reddit and Stackoverflow have about the same reach, and
have both plateaued, but reddit has 4 times the number of pageviews.
From my experience, Stackoverflow probably makes more money, but I
think this initiative is not about that.

Regards,
Seun Osewa

On Mar 25, 2:10 pm, Damilare Onajole <web.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Orombo,
>
> Both ideas are actually necessary for the Nigerian tech community in my
> humble opinion. With the social bookmarking site, fledging developers and
> experts will be able to get relevant resources easily. On the other hand,
> the question and answers site will really create a community where fledging
> developers can be assisted to become better professionals.
>
> Going along this light, how about having a social bookmarking feature in a
> question and answer site? Think about a contributing user of a question and

> answer site with a profile containing useful or favourite links in form of

[Tim Akinbo]

Thanks Osewa, I think the direction we should take is more clearly defined now.

- Tim Akinbo
http://firesta.mp/

2010/3/25 Seun Osewa <seun....@gmail.com>

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