Contrary to reports in Spanish that I'm disillusioned about Quora - La Gran Decepción de Quora - note, that decepción in Spanish does not mean deception in English!, infact I personally think it's superb, here's a quick and easy screencast showing you how to embed your Quora activity on your Wordpress blog.

Have a Wordpress blog and wish to display your Quora activity automagically?

Remember this is suitable if your blog is a self hosted Wordpress one and you have a theme which allows Widgets, and you have access to the Plugins options as an administrator of the WordPress site.

If the screencast below is too blurry, view the High Definition version at Screenr. 

For your reference, the sample HTML code I used in this screencast, that is placed above the Quora feed, which displays a graphic like this

I'm sure in time official plugins and others will appear that will make this even easier.

With Quora having enjoyed hockey stick like growth in the last month, I'm now detecting a love/hate sentiment towards Quora.

Are you decepcionado with Quora, how do you feel about it?

Social network fatigue afflicts all of us at some time or another.

And equally, shiny new networks attract attention from the fatigued.

I just took a five day sabbatical from Twitter as a sort of Christmas truce offering to my family. It was a great Christmas.

It reinvigorated my enthusiasm for the Twitter upon my return. No two days are ever the same on there and I owe lots to Twitter.

However, during that rest period I became more restless on Quora ;)

I think it's superb. It's like Yahoo Answers without the design odour of the 90's..

It's Like LinkedIn without the blatant self interest. Like Facebook without the nauseating inaneness. Like Formspring without the seedy anonymity. 

And it's attracting a lot of attention.

But it's much more than unlike other networks with their negatives.

..hits the sweetspot of functionality and integration..

It sports a fine UX and hits the sweetspot of functionality and integration with other networks without a sensation of page clutter, but more than anything, it's the community that determines its appeal.

Prominent tech bloggers have covered it and play there, as has the tech press and the wider media who have reported it. Marketing types are arriving, advocating it and pulling with them more devoted users all the time.

I took a little tour of Google Trends to see how it's adoption is stacking up.

Let's not forget Formspring is some 20 million users strong so the scales which show worldwide search volume in this graph above only hint at that upward December 2010 curve from Quora denoted by the red line.

If we then take a closer look at Google Trends for Quora for the last 30 days, we can see a much more noticeable lift:

Now, let's look a closer at the Silicon Valley effect.

So, if we now split this data to a regional level, to USA search traffic, and display the December 2009 Formspring equivalent boom period for USA traffic...

...and then compare that to the recent few days of the Quora take off..

...whoosh, you can appreciate the difference in that steepness of the curve.

the Quora adoption curve sets a new steepness precedent..

I know it's very hard to compare periods as conditions, even in 24 months in tech and social media are so changeable and there are probably many other yardsticks to look at.

The possiblities for amplification of a message via the likes of the now engorged Twitter compared to two years ago is significant, but nonetheless the take off of Quora is remarkable and it does feel like it has real momentum.

Infact the new arrivees, the buzz, and the growing pains that are being generated is already being noticed during december 2010.

It will certainly be interesting to see how Quora develops in 2011.

What do you think of Quora? Will it flatline or ramp up in 2011?

ps. You a Chrome user? Want to install the unofficial Quora Chrome extension?  This is how you find, download and install it: http://screenr.com/iIu