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Jan. 17, 2007 at 3:33pm Eastern by Chris Sherman
Star Your Favorite Questions at Yahoo Answers
Yahoo is now allowing users to vote for their favorite questions at Yahoo Answers by adding a star next to interesting or high-quality questions. Similar to Flickr’s “Interestingness� and the del.icio.us “Hotlist,� a starred question is nominated to appear in the new “Popular� list on the front page of Answers.
More on the new feature over at this post on the Yahoo Answers Team blog.
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Chris:
Just like to point out that in addition to Yahoo Answers and services similar to it, libraries from around the world offer FREE, 24x7, remotely accessible services where you chat one-on-one with a professional librarian or subject expert. They can not only help you find use material "on" the web but also lead you to fee-based databases that many libraries offer for free without having to visit the library.
In this post,
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/09/05/virtual-reference-for-non-librarians
we talk about several of these services, including national services in Australia and the U.K.
We also discuss expert powered Q&A services that are included in the AskA+ Locator.
http://www.vrd.org/locator/alphalist.shtml