Social Q&A services are springing up everywhere because often search is too cumbersome or imprecise to answer our questions. This is especially true on mobile phones. A new iPhone app called Crowdbeacon attempts to answer your questions with a local twist. It is designed to answer questions about restaurants, shopping, services, and activities in your immediate vicinity. To supplement the realtime answers from other users, Crowdbeacon will also surface related tips from FourSquare, reviews from Yelp, and shopping info from local shopping search engine Wishpond.Congratulations to Crowdbeacon on their successful launch! Read more about Wishpond-powered Crowdbeacon:
- The Next Web: Crowdbeacon: Quora meets Yelp on an iPhone
