I rarely get on the ground floor of anything, usually because I’m not “hip” enough. Today however I got an e-mail from Amazon asking me to visit Askville.

According to Amazon:

Askville is a friendly gathering place where you can ask questions on any topic and ‘get real answers from real people’. It’s a fun place to meet others with similar interests, share your knowledge, or just enjoy reading questions and answers submitted by others. It’s new, it’s fun, and it’s free!

The site is very simple and broken up into three sections “New Questions”, “Featured Answers”, “Active Discussions.” Of course you have a “friends” section and much more. Sounds like an interesting mash-up of a couple of already tried ideas. They also have a blog to provide more information.

I’m going to give it a try and see what I think. Wanna join me?… oh sorry I should ask that over at Askville.

Also thanks to Steve Stanger from The Mac Attack podcast who pointed out that is does not work with Safari. Come on Amazon you know better than that.