Answerbag.com Introduces Industry's First Social Q&A API.Content Sharing Allows Users to Add Social Q&A Abilities that Leverage the Knowledgebase of the Answerbag Community SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif. -- Answerbag.com[TM], a leading and independent social knowledge platform and a division of Demand Media, Inc., today released the industry's first social question and answer API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. that gives users full access to their structured database of user-generated questions and answers. Integrating another site's service offerings with Answerbag's allows people to find and share knowledge through a variety of tools, including posting a question, answering a question, rating content and searching for existing questions and answers. The API also gives sites the flexibility to monetize Monetize 1. To convert into money. 2. To convert from securities into currency that can be used to purchase goods and services. Notes: For example, you'll often hear Internet marketers talk about "monetizing website visitors. the pages in the manner that best supports their business model. For nearly four years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Answerbag community has shared and vetted knowledge that's created a structured database of 100,000 unique questions and yielded 300,000 answers that are organized into 3500 categories covering hundreds of verticals, including Health, Autos and Real Estate. With the introduction of its social Q&A API, Answerbag creates the ability for site owners to monetize their online presence and tap Answerbag's collective wisdom. This integration of service offerings enables a site's users to search existing answers and generate new questions for the Answerbag knowledgebase, which can then be answered by users on Answerbag or any other site or service within Answerbag's active social search community. "A tool as flexible as Answerbag's user generated Q&A API opens the world up to unlimited possibilities of cool new applications that creative and forward-thinking people can use to enhance their existing services or create an entirely new and innovative mashup of Q&A with other features," said Answerbag Founder and General Manager, Joel Downs. "Our API offers customers a straightforward and easy way to implement social Q&A and both benefit from and contribute to our knowledgebase." The offering of the social Q&A API complements Answerbag's existing Knowledge Network programs, including widgets and a white-label system. Answerbag widgets are available to anyone wanting to display Q&A on topics specific to their website, while the free white-label system allows sites to create a hosted, branded version of Answerbag as a channel within their own site. This approach creates opportunities for customization, enabling Q&A shared with Answerbag to be placed in their desired categories on a site, providing both a knowledge sharing service for a site's users in addition to serving as a community and loyalty-building tool. The Answerbag API will allow users to register, read categories, questions and answers, and contribute questions and answers, with additional functionality to follow. Companies and individuals interested in using the API can see the documentation at http://www.answerbag.com/docs/xmlschema, and they can sign up for inclusion by visiting Answerbag online. Answerbag offers website owners business models based on either revenue sharing revenue sharing Funding arrangement in which one government unit grants a portion of its tax income to another government unit. For example, provinces or states may share revenue with local governments, or national governments may share revenue with provinces or states. from advertising or through a licensing fee based on utilization of the technology. Answerbag is unique in the Social Q&A arena because it removes duplicate DUPLICATE. The double of anything. 2. It is usually applied to agreements, letters, receipts, and the like, when two originals are made of either of them. Each copy has the same effect. questions to make answer searching straightforward, and its questions are always open to new answers and ratings, so users can thoroughly vet vet common idiomatic version of veterinarian. all questions and answers in the knowledgebase. Unlike other social search companies who attempt to be all things to all people, Answerbag is the industry's only independent social Q&A platform. The company's independence gives Answerbag the ability to focus on making its service the ultimate destination for creating and distributing user generated knowledge that is organized and topical topical /top·i·cal/ (top´i-k'l) pertaining to a particular area, as a topical antiinfective applied to a certain area of the skin and affecting only the area to which it is applied. top·i·cal adj. . About Answerbag Answerbag.com, a pioneer in the industry, is the only social Q&A platform where members ask questions, share answers, collaboratively evaluate information and build a permanent archive of knowledge and experience for the benefit of its visitors and the visitors of its partner sites. Web publishers, bloggers and forum moderators This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since October 2007. leverage the innovative Answerbag platform to provide live, social Q&A to their audiences. Founded in 2003, Answerbag is a division of Demand Media, Inc. About Demand Media, Inc. The Demand Media[TM] proprietary media platform powers the company's popular content properties and highly-trafficked domains providing a diverse new media experience for tens of millions of users. By focusing its cutting-edge, user-driven publishing, community and monetization Monetization The securitization of the gross revenues of a contract. tools around niche' interest verticals, Demand Media offers everyone the ability to publish and partake in Verb 1. partake in - be active in participate, take part - share in something 2. partake in - have, give, or receive a share of; "We shared the cake" partake, share the evolution of new media. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. was founded in May 2006 and is based in Santa Monica, Calif., with offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Seattle, Wash. For more information, please visit Demand Media online: http://www.demandmedia.com [c] 2007 Demand Media, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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