ChaCha

By Daniel Miessler on September 23rd, 2008: Tagged as Technology

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ChaCha (like the dance) is a nifty little service that performs a real-world, practical function: you text a question to it, and it texts you back the answer–for free.

That’s it.

I tried it out by asking what the metalic element was with the highest melting temperature. It sent me back the answer (tungsten), along with a short little blurb about it, i.e. that its symbol is ‘W’ because it used to be called Wolfram.

Neat stuff. I suggest adding it to your technical repertoire.

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[ ChaCha | chacha.com ]

  • Allan

    You know you can query Google via SMS too, eh? http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sms/index.html

  • Allan

    You know you can query Google via SMS too, eh? http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sms/index.html

  • Allan

    You know you can query Google via SMS too, eh? http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sms/index.html

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  • http://gdfisk.blogspot.com/ Gary Fisk

    Some teachers are concerned that students will use services like these to cheat on exams. On the other hand, some would argue that memorization of facts is not valuable any more when all the information is just a few key strokes away. The real question now is how much does a person have to know or memorize to function properly in society?

    If you’re interested in this topic, you should check out The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein. The title is extreme, in my opinion, but he does raise some interesting questions about a potential decline in literacy caused by over dependence on information technology.

  • http://gdfisk.blogspot.com/ Gary Fisk

    Some teachers are concerned that students will use services like these to cheat on exams. On the other hand, some would argue that memorization of facts is not valuable any more when all the information is just a few key strokes away. The real question now is how much does a person have to know or memorize to function properly in society?

    If you’re interested in this topic, you should check out The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein. The title is extreme, in my opinion, but he does raise some interesting questions about a potential decline in literacy caused by over dependence on information technology.

  • http://gdfisk.blogspot.com Gary Fisk

    Some teachers are concerned that students will use services like these to cheat on exams. On the other hand, some would argue that memorization of facts is not valuable any more when all the information is just a few key strokes away. The real question now is how much does a person have to know or memorize to function properly in society?

    If you’re interested in this topic, you should check out The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein. The title is extreme, in my opinion, but he does raise some interesting questions about a potential decline in literacy caused by over dependence on information technology.


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