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PostSubject: LOL: You're wrong! There's an app for that   LOL: You're wrong! There's an app for that Icon_minitimeThu Sep 06, 2012 9:53 pm

The web can be a valuable source of knowledge, but as everybody knows, it’s also full of inane, incorrect and often painful rambling.

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So imagine if you could find a rebuttal for any argument you find?

Rbutr - an app built by New South Wales-based entrepreneur Shane Greenup, 31, and coder Craig O'Shannessy - crowd-sources counter-arguments on a range of subjects. Using Rbutr, you can read any comebacks already added by Rbutr users or type a new one, spreading your knowledge.

The spark for the critical thinking app, which debuted in February, was an obscure online scientific report that Greenup wanted to debunk.
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Soon, his start-up, which now has Scientific American columnist Michael Shermer on board as an advisor, "exploded", Greenup says. In April, the news site Ventureburn named Rbutr one of the 10 start-ups capable of changing the face of news. Rbutr is also among the finalists for a $250,000 prize offered by the media innovation contest Knight News Challenge.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/startup/youre-wrong-theres-an-app-for-that-20120830-252fj.html#ixzz25kEpSPAi
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