Hoosgot - The return of LazyWeb (in spirit)
Hoosgot is a little project by the guy that started Tenchorati, David Sifry, who found himself with too much holiday time on his hands as he was reminiscing about the good old days of the LazyWeb. So he decided to put that time to good use and create a site to revive the old spirit as well as make it work with Twitter.It functions like this: you make a Twitter tweet or blog post with either @hoosgot or hoosgot in it, respectively, with a question that you would like answered. Hoosgot will then scoop up your tweet/post and throw it up for the world to see. And, if the world is feeling generous that day, you may get an answer or some replies to your question by other people who are paying attention to Hoosgot.
This means that the juice that is supposed to fuel this operation is the concept of sharing and giving, which there's arguably enough of that this might work. However, there is a lingering sensation that suggests that this is kind of what Twitter and a few other sites do already, without the picture of outer space.
[via Mashable]
After spending the better part of an hour on 
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David Sifry said 2:25PM on 12-31-2007
Thanks! It's a big experiment - the difference from twitter and the like is that hoosgot pulls together all the lazyweb requests (and hoosgots) into a single place, so that you can go and share when you have time to give back to the 'net...
Anyway, we'll see how it goes. Thanks for the link love!
Dave
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