Ask Metafilter — Check it out! One of the best Q&A sites out there, tapping the collective intelligence and wisdom of the MetaFilter community. You have to be a MetaFilter member ($5) to post questions or answers, and you can only ask one question a week. But you can browse all previous questions and answers. Highly recommended. ask.metafilter.com
Ask500people.com — Not really a Q&A site in the traditional sense, but rather a site where you can ask questions that are then used as poll questions for other site users. You can then view the results. ask500people.com
Big Big Question — One question gets posted per day, and people answer and chat about it. You can suggest questions, but it's not like most Q-and-A sites where you can definitely get your questions answered. bigbigquestion.com
ExpertBee — Another question and answer site similar to Google Answers where you set a price for having your questions answered. expertbee.com
Google Answers — Check it out! Unfortunately, this great qanda site is no longer accepting new questions, but the archive of answered questions remains online. Worth checking out to see if your question has been answered already. answers.google.com
JustCurio.us — A different take on the question-and-answer site, you have to answer a question to ask a question justcurio.us
| Jyte.com — Not a Q&A site per se, but rather a site where you make statements and have people vote on whether they are true or false. jyte.com
LinkedIn Answers — The question and answer site for the social networking site LinkedIn. Accessible to LinkedIn users only, so you will need to login or sign up to access this answers page. By answering questions for other LinkedIn users you can earn "expert points". linkedin.com/answers
NowNow.com — Amazon.com's email-based question and answer site designed for mobile phone users. Instead of asking a question via the web, you email it to them and they email answers back. As of January 2007 it is invite-only. nownow.com
Say-So — Get feedback from select friends or total strangers for your questions. say-so.org
UClue.com — A Q-and-A site staffed by former Google Answers researchers, that operates in a similar manner to the now-defunct Google Answers. uclue.com
Wondir — A community question and answer site, free to post questions and answers. wondir.com
Xooxle Answers — A site started by an ex-Google-Answers-researcher that attempts to carry the q-and-a torch forward now that Google Answers has been shut down. Works on an hourly basis, instead of bidding per question. xooxleanswers.com
Yahoo! Answers — Yahoo's popular question-and-answer site. The community answers the questions, so many times you will receive silly and unhelpful responses to your query. Works best for chatty questions that don't require accurate answers. answers.yahoo.com
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