fred-hutch-donation1Graduates from the University of Washington Information School have started the school’s first startup company, AnswerDash. They’ve developed software that offers self-service contextual help to users for e-commerce and other websites. Users can click the AnswerDash tab on the side of the website and then whatever they click on becomes an object they can directly ask a question about.  The software also stores the most commonly asked questions which users can easily access.

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Read more about it at Xconomy.

And, if you’re someone interested in using AnswerDash’s service, find out more on their website.