Do You Think Zurker is Better?

  1. Responsive:

    I found it quite easy to find the co-founders on Zurker (UserID’s Cineman and Berzurker). I am usually very sceptical so I always like to confirm and understand before I commit any of my precious time. I asked Cineman and Berzurker a many aggressive and demanding questions, and to my amazement they answered all my questions within a couple of hours with refreshing frankness and openness.

  2. Privacy:

    You can associate each of your contacts on Zurker with a “tag”. Tags could be “Friends”, “Family”, “Colleagues” or “Man Utd supporters” or any other tag you make up. Only you can see your tags, so you could tag someone as “Pushy” and they would never be aware- I’m not confident enough to use this sort of tag while Zurker is in beta!

  3. Open Books, Open Statistics, Open Bug-Reporting, Open Everything:

    You can easily find Zurker’s open books accounting which shows every penny coming in and every penny going out. This seems to be updated hourly. You can also see membership numbers by country, also updated hourly. There is a link to report bugs, you can see all the bugs reported and the developer’s response.

  4. Democratic:

    Because Zurker is owned its members, everything will be controlled by voting.

  5. Click Here to Join Zurker!

  6. Future Development, Features and Apps will be Driven By Members’ Ideas:

    Members will be able to suggest and vote on ideas

  7. Business and Personal Identities Kept Separate:

    On Zurker businesses will be known as “Entities” these will be kept separate from personal identities. When you make a connection on Zurker, you will know whether its with a real person or a business.

  8. No Spam and No Advertising:

    Zurker is very strict about controlling spam and has no adverts.

  9. Members like you!:

    Because Zurker is new and revolutionary it attracts bright, positive and forward looking people.

  10. Over 18′s only:

    Facebook allows 13 year-olds to join (in fact some of its members are much younger). Zurker is for grown-ups only.

  11. Owned By Its Members:

    It seems to me that the Facebook model works like this. Facebook members spend endless hours maintaining their profiles. Mark Z then uses this data to target adverts at members and makes himself very rich. Zurker is totally different, it’s owned by its members and they will decide the direction of Zurker and how any revenues/profits will be distributed.

Negative Aspects

  1. 1. Zurker is in Beta

    Zurker is in beta and there are some bugs. The bugs seem to be mainly non-urgent issues and as explained above there is open reporting of bugs and they are being resolved promptly.

  2. 2. Zurker is Small

    Zurker is still very small (especially in comparison to Facebook) so you are unlikely to find many of your friends or family on Zurker. However membership is growing fast. If you want to enjoy some of the control and positives of sharing ownership of your own social media platform then its worth trying it and asking some of your friends and family to join you.

  3. Bad User-interface

    After going through the website I realized that the current website running for Zurker India needs lots and lots of improvement in terms of user interface. The interface does not appeal to the user in the first go. However green themes can not be made better than the blue themes but still the use of latest jquery and ajax plugins could have improved the user interaction and leave a soothing effect.

  4. This writeup is inspired from Zurker Review – What is Zurker?.

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