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.

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

   Members will be able to suggest and vote on ideas

6. 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.

7. No Spam and No Advertising:

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

8. Members like you!:

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

ZURKER VS. FACEBOOK

It is believed that Zurker is going to be the one of the biggest rivals for Facebook.

Imagine if you had been offered the opportunity to own part of Facebook for zero cost, would you have seized the moment? You have a similar chance with Zurker right now. At the moment it’s in beta and membership is by invitation only, so here’s your invite:-

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Even though Zurker is in beta, membership is steadily climbing and today hit 10,000 members. In fact as I am writing this membership is 10,940 so over the last 24 hours over 1,000 new members have signed up. So don’t delay, please use my invite (see above) now!
Update; membership numbers are starting to go viral! As I write this (10th May 2012, 01:55 pm Noida, India) Zurker has 115,226 members and membership numbers are growing by 5,000 to 10,000 members per day.

 

Zurker

What is Zurker?

One of my room-mate one late night asked me if I was aware of the Zurker one of the latest Social Network Website player coming here in India. I got up from the bed, started my lappy and started searching about the story and reviews about Zurker.

I was surprised to know the rumor behind its popularity: Zurker is owned by Winklevoss Brothers. No. it’s not.

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Cineman and Berzurker are the Co founders. You can find them at Zurker. It is currently in its Beta phase. It’s an open platform which can be trusted as it will be owned by you.

Yes, you are one of the owners. Zurker is an innovative social media website which is owned by its users. You can join Zurker by an invite from an existing member. Once you sign up you will be provided with a link which you can use to invite your friends and others into Zurker. The more people you get into it the more shares will be given to you. The concept is as the value of Facebook today is 100 billion $ after the IPO Zurker can also go miles. Then at that moment the value of your share will increase with time.