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Social search is Twitter’s next killer app? It’s already Aardvark’s killer app

A fun game has been sweeping the Internets. No, it doesn’t involve answering 25 questions on Facebook. It is speculation about Twitter’s future as a profitable business. Advertising Age recently published an article with (well-sourced) speculation of their own:

Certainly there’s an AdWords-like business there, but, as [Todd] Chaffee [an Institutional Venture Partners general partner and [...]

Oodles of Aardvark Invites

I have recently been allotted about 20 beta invites to the question-and-answer service, Aardvark. It has been hailed as “Yahoo Answers meets Twitter — but better.” From the article:

The simplest explanation is Yahoo Answers meets Twitter — real-time, rapid fire responses, by actual human beings, to intelligent (and not-so-intelligent) questions. It helps you find answers [...]