Discovery Communications' newest web venture, Curiosity.com, launched today. If you've got a question, tap it into Curiosity's search box. If one of Discovery's numerous properties has answered it in the past, you'll get those results. But there's also a new content section with answers supplied by experts--including big names like Google's Vint Cerf, the "father of the Internet." The site is, essentially, a promo vehicle for Discovery and the TV show that carries the site's name, and a way to attract new visitors with some linkbaited content, albeit of an intellectual nature.
Curiosity isn't Quora--with its more open-ended, albeit curated, answer submissions. It also isn't Answers.com, where pretty much anyone can weigh in with their opinion on a question that's asked and answered in an open forum. Quora is a scorching-hot property right now, with its boutique feel (driven partly by the invite-only membership list) and the...
Curiosity isn't Quora--with its more open-ended, albeit curated, answer submissions. It also isn't Answers.com, where pretty much anyone can weigh in with their opinion on a question that's asked and answered in an open forum. Quora is a scorching-hot property right now, with its boutique feel (driven partly by the invite-only membership list) and the...
- 6/20/2011
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. In this series, we talk to leading figures in those communities about what makes them tick.
Not too long ago, about fifty years, Atlanta was the size of Little Rock, Ark. About a hundred years before that, it was burned to the ground. Atlanta has proven it can grow (adding 1.1 million residents in the last decade alone). Now, it’s building toward a sort of tech hub in the southeast, against a backdrop that includes the busiest international airport in the world; a healthy cluster of corporate giants in Coca-Cola, Ups, Delta and The Home Depot, among others; and a spur of entrepreneurial activity that put Atlanta in the top ten on this year’s Kauffman Entrepreneurial Index, which tracks new business creation.
Not too long ago, about fifty years, Atlanta was the size of Little Rock, Ark. About a hundred years before that, it was burned to the ground. Atlanta has proven it can grow (adding 1.1 million residents in the last decade alone). Now, it’s building toward a sort of tech hub in the southeast, against a backdrop that includes the busiest international airport in the world; a healthy cluster of corporate giants in Coca-Cola, Ups, Delta and The Home Depot, among others; and a spur of entrepreneurial activity that put Atlanta in the top ten on this year’s Kauffman Entrepreneurial Index, which tracks new business creation.
- 10/18/2010
- by Laura Rich
- Fast Company
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