Urban Turban Guy's blog » aardvark http://urbanturbanguy.com marketing, technology & design Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:34:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Embarrassing revelation: I am just 3 degrees away from myself ! http://urbanturbanguy.com/degrees-of-seperation/ http://urbanturbanguy.com/degrees-of-seperation/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:08:05 +0000 Gagan http://urbanturbanguy.com/blog/?p=86 As usual, I was bragging about the power of online networks and recent emergence of “social answer engines” like Aardvark to one of my finance MBA friends ( u know, the ones who love Microsoft products,  have a faith in efficient markets but feel social media stinks as it doesn’t smell of future cash flows ). I will call her FinMBA from hereon.

FinMBA said, lets give it a try – being from Croatia, she wanted to figure out the best way send a ton of books she had bought here back home,in the cheapest way possible. Now, being a self proclaimed Aarvocate , I rushed to vark.com typed in the question & prayed to the network gods. This is what happened. ( p.s. the emails are in Croatian.)

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So , what happened is:

1) Aardvark sent it to the person when seemed to answer the most questions about Croatia
2) it turns out that he is a family friend of my classmates, so he fwds the email to FinMBA’s husband
3) he Fwds it to FinMBA, along with a few laughs
( here is the text of the email translated in English
Croatian guy’s message to FinMBA’s husband: Hahahaha… look where this guy is asking this from… ;-)
FinMBA’s husband to FinMBA: ” Hehehe… I told Cacan (Croatian guy’s nickname) that this is our friend who is probably trying to do us a favour… :-)   )

Frankly speaking she is the best person to answer this question – I mean only a Croatian living in america with a ton of books would know the cheapest way to send it accross !

(btw. i love aardvark , and I have a aardvark t-shirt to prove my love :) – will upload a pic )

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