PeerPong Asks for Expert Advice on Twitter
June 1st, 2010 admin
PeerPong , a new Q&A site with an adorable name, is launching a public beta today. The company’s premise to bring users’ questions to qualified experts given their history talking about that topic online — right now, on Twitter. Yes, it’s yet another Q&A company looking to build up page views for its portal, in the vein of Yahoo Answers and competing with startups like Quora and Stack Overflow as well as the pre-launch Facebook Questions product . PeerPong was incubated by the VC firm Partech International and was originally called Muchobene. CEO Ro Choy, who was formerly chief revenue officer at RockYou, joined this January. The company has raised $2.8 million from DCM, First Round Capital, Charles River Ventures and Partech International. Out of the more than 100 million Twitter users, only about 3 million of them have…
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