Questioning Apple and Facebook’s wrong answers to real-time Q&A
Dan Kurani is the co-founder and CEO of Thumb.  Easily the most
talked about companies in 2012, Facebook and Apple, are no
strangers to disrupting ecosystems in the tech world. However,
despite innovating in almost every segment, including gaming,
hardware, and web development, both have failed to make a dent
when it comes to information discovery.  Apple’s hyped up voice-
activated digital assistant, Siri, was declared a huge
failure once users realized the application had under-delivered
on its lofty promises. Apple even faced a class-action
lawsuit based on the fact that Siri did not perform for users as
advertised. Apple also recently backed away from music discovery
by shuttering Ping on iTunes.  Recently Facebook demonstrated
its weakness in discovery and search, by officially beginning to
shut down Facebook Questions, which allowed users to poll and
post answers from friends. Facebook Questions proved once again
that the social network was