I discovered Formspring today via Twitter, and I think it’s an interesting idea: you can ask people questions on anything you like, and see their responses listed. Very simple and not very original, but the lack of a need to sign up (though you can if you want to) and the simplicity of the interface is somehow very conducive to just asking and answering.
I’ve already answered almost 40 questions on all kinds of things (mostly Mac/iPad/iPhone UI/interaction questions), and I’ve love to hear yours – though please note that I’m more interested in giving my opinions on things than answering specific technical questions. You can ask me a question here.
You know about http://stackoverflow.com/ ? You don’t have to sign up to ask questions. Even when you feel like signing up you can use your own openid.
Stackoverflow is for a very different purpose, though; it’s about getting answers to technical questions regardless of who answers, like a dev discussion list or forum. Formspring is about asking a specific person something; it’s more like a Letters page.
Do you see FormSpring taking load off your email inbox? Or is it just another place to have to check to answer questions?
Maybe I should have asked them on FormSpring…