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easyeboy

January 04, 2009 05:42 AM

Would Mahalo Answers offer anything like ChaCha?

With ChaCha you can ask a question on your phone via texting 242242 or calling 800-2ChaCha. I'm wondering if there is a way to call up or text Mahalo Answers and ask a question like this. Would this service be good for Mahalo Answers? Why or why not?

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jeffhoard

January 04, 2009 08:46 AM

Jason hinted at making Answers accessible on smartphones, I don't think it would be that bad of an idea to make answers usable from a Cell phone, txt speak is something moderators could easily clean up before a question goes live on the site. Phoning a live operator is a whole other ball game, and I doubt are in the plans.

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ssharon

January 04, 2009 06:21 AM

This is a tough call. On the one hand, I just answered in another question that I think the future is in the ability to use Mahalo from our mobile devices, but I dread the text speak that will end up in the questions if users can text them in.

In the end, I don't think this feature is necessary. The people that so urgently need to post a question while mobile also need the answer. Texting the question in with no way to get the answers texted back is useless. If the person has a smartphone and can browse the web to get the answer, then they don't need to text in the question they can enter it normally from their mobile web browser.

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