Facebook enters the Reference business
PrintFacebook is exploring entering the online Question & Answer space in the vein of an AskMetafilter, Mahalo or Answers.com with a new beta product that you can apply to join. AskMefi is a long-standing librarian online favorite…will Facebook be the next quick-reference product?
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facebook must enter reference business
There are many reasons for facebook to be in this reference portal. There are a lots of people trying to get answers on facebook too.
www.reachinformation.com uses external sources and integrates it into one single source of reference similar to answers.com, but answers does it in a better way by integrating many sources.
Considering facebook, its going to be easy and much more better.