The Mashable Quiz Challenge

Which of the following is primarily a business social network application?

Facebook

Ning

Business.com

Facebook is a popular, general-purpose social network. Business.com is a business search engine and directory. Ning allows creating your own network. LinkedIn is centered around business social networking.

Explanation

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What do you understand about the term "technical evangelist"? A technical evangelist is one who:

Uses technology in the course of a religious ministry, building a "wired church".

A missionary who spreads the word by geocaching gospel tracks at disclosed global co-ordinates.

A corporate spokesperson who builds support for their company's technology to become a standard.

A Free Culture advocate who pushes for their chosen tech to be morally superior to the competition.

Robert Scoble of Scobelizer fame is an example.

Explanation

Robert Scoble of Scobelizer fame is an example.

Which of the following is not true according to the 2007 Mashable Fun Facts post?

500% - Mashable.com growth in 2007

1200% - approximate revenue growth in 2007

300% - the growth in employee numbers in 2007

250% - Increase in fee accepted for blog post

Mashable helps great start-ups get the word out and be successful. You can buy advertising, but coverage if not up for sale. Read more about it here.

Explanation

Mashable helps great start-ups get the word out and be successful. You can buy advertising, but coverage if not up for sale. Read more about it here.

Twitter is a technology that should be very familiar to any Mashable reader. Twitter is written in...

Adobe FLEX

Macromedia Flash

Ruby on Rails

COBOL

Right there in the Wiki.

Explanation

Right there in the Wiki.

Which of the following does not belong to Mashable's 50+ Social Bookmarking Sites list?

Scribd.com

Furl.net

BlinkList.com

Del.icio.us

Scribd is a social document sharing site, not a social bookmarking site. Read more here.

Explanation

Scribd is a social document sharing site, not a social bookmarking site. Read more here.

Boy, does Web 2.0 love Google! Seeing as how Google is a consistently covered topic on Mashable, perhaps you can tell which of the following is NOT a Google product?

Google Picasa - The web's photo album

Google Click-to-Call - A phone calling system integrated with search results

Google Writer - An application that writes automatic blog posts

Google Gears - A browser plug-in that enables development of off-line browser applications

Google Writer was their 2007 April Fool's Day hoax.

Explanation

Google Writer was their 2007 April Fool's Day hoax.