Viewpointr vs Email

Many of our early private users have asked us -- "Why would I use Viewpointr over email to send questions to my friends?"

Firstly, Viewpointr facilitates communication with your friends-of-friends, not your friends. Your friends point questions to their friends who can best answer your questions.

The other reasons why you would use Viewpointr vs email are:

Unlike the back and forth with email, you can directly ask your question to people you want viewpoints from.
For example, if you're looking to get in touch with a "designer" and you reach out to a few friends who you think can put you in touch with them; you would have to write an initial email to your friend (or friends), wait for a reply, and then, your friend(s) would either have to do an email introduction or provide you with the designer's contact info. All of this takes time and involves a bit of back and forth.
Host your conversations in one place.
For example, if you're looking to get multiple viewpoints from a several different types of people such as "designers, architects, and engineers" regarding the same topic / question, it makes sense to have that conversation in one place where it's easily tracked, stored and retrieved when needed.
To capture you and your friend's influence.
The beauty of Viewpointr is having the ability to capture the various types of people and information that your friends have access to. Our online profiles like Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogs, and Twitter are often static and don't share the full story with regards to the types of people your friends can point you to. Viewpointr captures your questions, the questions you point, and the questions you answer seamlessly without you doing anything else but pointing or answering them.

Try it out and let us know what you think.

Ask a question that you're looking for multiple viewpoints and invite at least 3 friends to point it. Have a conversation with them and see how your profile grows.

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As a brief sneak preview to what we're working on -- users will soon be able to benefit from all of Viewpointr's features by simply using their own email. Think posterous meets yahoo answers! Very exciting. Stay tuned via Twitter and Facebook.

Cheers,
Andre