Then you send the question into the Jelly-verse. You can add a link to the question, or scribble on the photo using a “draw” tool, adding notations or emoticons. You’ll be prompted to ask a question, limited to 240 characters. Here’s where you snap a photo with your smartphone, select one from your camera roll, or use Google Images. The main screen of Jelly is a photo-capture screen. You can also opt to share your location, but the company says it isn’t using this data in its algorithm yet. The same goes with Twitter connections: You may see Jelly content from people you follow, but you also might see content from the people who they follow. You might see questions and answers from your friends on Facebook, but more often I saw posts from friends of friends on Facebook. Jelly then uses your social networks to create a kind of Q&A roulette. If you haven’t tried Jelly yet, here’s how it works: You download the app to your mobile device and, while signing up, are prompted to link to your Facebook or Twitter account, or both. Jelly also requires that users post a picture with every question, and some pictures aren’t illustrative of the questions being asked.Īs other users have rightly pointed out, sometimes a quick search online will give you a better answer than Jelly will.Īnd there are some features I’d still like to see added to the app - a search function or profiles, for example. At its worst, it’s inane.Īs with Twitter updates or Facebook statuses, some people contribute silly or amusing content rather than helpful or prescriptive stuff - but unlike other apps, you can’t select whom you follow or get answers from. At its best, it actually can be helpful or informative. There’s a certain type of visual question - i.e., What kind of plant is this? - that really lends itself to Jelly.īut right now, Jelly isn’t for every question.
And I’ll probably keep using it to feel it out. The two worked on Jelly for several months in stealth mode, creating an only-in-the-tech-universe mystique around an app named after an amorphous sea creature.Īfter testing Jelly for over a week, during which I posted about a dozen questions and answered several others, I’m pretty intrigued by it. It was created by Ben Finkel and Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder.
Jelly is a free, mobile-only app for iOS and Android that lets users pose the most random of questions to the Internet and get answers within minutes - sometimes seconds. These are just a few of the questions I’ve asked or seen other people ask this week on Jelly. What year did this old computer come out?
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