Questions and Answers
Anyone active on the technology/software blog scene has surely heard of Joel Spolsky and Jeff Attwood . Their fascinating brainchild - a series of free community-driven topical Q&A sites, combine the best of forums, online support and Q&A sites into one very useful offerring. Each site focusses on a particular topic but underlying all is the same engine which gives a familiar feel to all other sites once you know about one. Each site also has a "meta" site where the community discusses how the site should be driven. The flagship site is Stackoverflow - a website for aksing and answering programming questions. There are a host of other sites in various stages of construction and Area 51 has the overview. Some of the more interesting ones ... SuperUser - For powerusers (all OS) ServerFault - For system admins and server users Ubuntu SE - For Ubuntu. This site is beta so the url is likely to change once it gets out of beta.