Tuesday, January 5, 2010

FormSpring The new web sensation based on questions

formspring.me

First of all: Happy year to all! that took a few days separated of my darling blog and of the worldly noise in general for different questions.

He wanted to begin the year with one of these web services that turns into tendency as in due time it happened with SecondLife, YouTube, Twitter, Amigos.tw, Spotify or FriendFeed in the world of early adopters of the bloggers and that some continue and end up by being part of the habitual panorama of 2.0 and others with the time disappear without making trace too much. Some day I will write here on as these interesting phenomena happen in the network.

In this case, FormSpring.me is an application that invites us to rise questions to the registered users, signing or of anonymous form, on having entered, you register and decide it, and from here on you have a form of questions and public answers, that is to say, what he wonders and answers that he will remain exhibited for all.

From my point of view, it is a truly simple idea, which more than once I have lacked, because when you want to ask about something someone who has a blog, twitter, or gives conferences, not always the place is, the moment, or the channel, on the other hand with FormSpring.me this problem disappears and any person, thing, animal or company can be exhibited at all times to be asked, and for his position, to decide if he answers or not to the above mentioned question.

It has three points of standing out, on the one hand the possibility of rising questions anonymously whenever the respondedor admits it this way, aspect that gives a lot of game, since more than one preguntador will rise questions that otherwise it would not dare and on having answered also you have the freedom of saying what should please to you or straight not to do it. For other, the connection with Facebook and Twitter that not only uses them to find to your contacts and to continue them, but also to publish the above mentioned questions and answers in each of these two networks, which is a big part of his viralidad since it has gone so far as to turn in trendtopic into Twitter #FormSpring. And finally his simplicity that is the key of which most of the big successes of the network.

Curiously FormSpring (the same name but with extension.com) is the company that is behind FormSpring.me and they devote themselves to offer forms easy to create and to set in your web as Wufoo and many others, but that with this application it has managed to be the center of attention. I understand that little is missing so that after his success someone cheers up to develop his version open source and his version for companies, since some of them moved forward like LaInformación, for example, have already joined the car of very positive form and it seems to me that it is worth it.

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