Datum 2014
help with everything from where to
eat in Philadelphia to suggestions for
a friend on Facebook who probably
Jelly App
the answer or remember you have
an 8-year-old’s birthday party.
Biz Stone’s
back to it later when you think of
knows it.
But Stone is hoping Jelly
makes this experience fun while
shared outside the app and answered
dedicated social-search app is free of
via the Web by people who don’t
news feed and timeline clutter, while
use Jelly. These answers show up as
still allowing you to make use of your
What is Biz Stone’s ‘Jelly’ app?
helping users find answers faster. The
Questions
can
also
be
“forwarded by ...”
social network.
Stone says in the future
they’d like to figure out a way to
connect names with outside answers,
but it isn’t a top priority right now.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS:
Users can also rate answers
to their own questions, and to other
• Jelly, a new social Q&A app, was
Ben Finkel (left) and Biz Stone,
users’ questions, as “good,” and send
co-founders of Jelly..
virtual “thankyou cards” to helpful
released on Jan 7,2014.
• App emphasizes using friends
respondents.
and photos to answer questions.
• Ratings on iTunes are mostly
phone on Jan 7,2014 about how Jelly
positive, but critics claim app is
works. His answers informed these
Jelly in iTunes are mostly positive.
“pretty but pointless”
instructions:
For
• App was co-founded by Biz Stone,
Using Jelly is simple enough.
experienced an error which prevented
one of the founders of Twitter.
Open the app, connect your social
users from connecting and logging
networks (Facebook platform app
in, which appears to be the reason
of
must be turned on) and users are
for most posted complaints. Some
social media apps got squeezed a
immediately prompted to either look
meaner critics called the app “pretty
bit tighter with the introduction of
through pending questions (“7 people
but pointless.”
Jelly on Jan 7,2014.
need help”) or snap a photo. Users
The
crowded
world
We spoke to Stone over the
So far, customer ratings for
a
short
time
Tuesday
Jelly
Some also have criticized
before sharing a question with others.
Jelly’s
inability
The social Q&A app from
Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter,
relies on photos and friends to find
can add links and draw on a photo
sort
through
questions, see questions only from
and
certain users or filter results. In
answers to questions that may not
answers from unfamiliar people?
response, Stone said that categorizing
fit neatly into a Google search,
Stone says the app works much
questions defeats the purpose of
such as, “What kind of flower is
like LinkedIn, where “2nd degree”
using your entire social network.
this?”
connections will appear. In other
But he emphasized that he’s open
words, users wi