Why I Love Zurker
I'm naturally skeptical but after a few days of using Zurker, I am totally hooked and convinced. Here's why:1. Open and Responsive
I posed lots of questions to the co-founders and I was amazed by how quickly and openly they responded. They treated me as a friend and colleague and welcomed searching questions. This was a clincher for me. Imagine trying to ask Mark Z difficult questions about Facebook! By the way, the User ID's of the co-founders are Cineman and Berzurker and once you have joined Zurker you can just post questions on their walls. I found that I got full answers within a few hours2. Owned By Its Members
I like the idea of social media owned by its members. It certainly beats the Facebook model.
3. Members Share In The Growth And Profits
The only investment needed is a little time. Time you might otherwise have wasted making the owners of Facebook or Twitter a little richer.
4. You Have Total Control Of Your Own Privacy
You control your privacy (for every update and photo you post) through the use of zurks, tags, street & home concepts. I guess I ought to explain a bit more. A "zurk" is a bit like a Facebook "like" but it's better because it's a more neutral word. For example it somehow seems inappropriate to "like" a post about someone dying but in Zurker you would "zurk" it to highlight it was a post worth sharing.
You can associate tags with your connections on Zurker. Tags could be "Friends", "Family" or "Hubbers" or any tag you make up. Only you can see your tags, so you could tag someone as "time-waster" and they would never know (I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to use derogatory tags just yet).
Your "Street" page is where you can see all the updates posted by all you connections, but you can filter these by tag (see above). Your home page only shows updates that directly involve you and again you can filter by tag.
5. Open Books, Open Statistics, Open Bug-Reporting, Open Everything!
Zurker publishes online (via links at the bottom of every Zurker page) every cent that comes in and every cent that goes out. Membership figures and graphs are updated and displayed every hour. There is a link to report bugs and you can read any bug that has been reported and the developers' responses.
6. Unique Features
Such as Zurks, Tags, Street/Home etc. see 3, above, for more details.
7. Democratic
Members will be able to control everything by voting.
8. Development Driven By Members' Ideas
There will be an "Ideas" link where members will be able to suggest ideas and vote to select the best ideas.
9. Personal Identity and Business Identities Separate
Zurker will have a separate type of membership businesses known as "Entities". You will know whether you are connecting with a real person or a business.
10. No Advertising And (Almost) No Spam
Zurker is advert free and has a very strict anti-spam policy.
11. Responsible, Bright, Creative and Positive Members
Because all of all that Zurker has to offer it is attractive to people that think for themselves.
12. Zurker Is Fun!
Zurker is a cool name to play with and we already have Zurker slang and culture.
Summary
For all of these reasons I believe that Zurker has real potential to become the most popular social network on the Planet. I aloso reviewed Zurker on my blog and included some testimonials from other Zurker members.
Zurker- A Chance In A Lifetime!
I
would never have guessed that I would have the chance to own part of a
social network that will overtake 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:-
Click Here to Join Zurker! Don't Miss Out!
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!
Click Here to Join Zurker! Don't Miss Out!
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!
Zurker Official Video
The Future of Social Media
In
my view member owned social media platforms, like Zurker, have
significant implications for less democratic platforms like Facebook.
The whole future of social media
platforms like Twitter and Facebook will be in dobut when they're faced
with the full, irresistible force of democracy. In the world as a whole
democracy is proving to be the dominant force and in the end all
dicatators are overthrown. I see no reason why this should not apply to
the world of social media.
Zurker- How You Can Be An Owner
Zurker
is a new and unique type of social media. It seems to be a mixture
between Facebook and Google + but with a unique selling point: it's
owned by its members! You earn shares in Zurker by referring members.
You get 2 shares for each referral in the first 24 hours of your
membership and one share per referral thereafter. There are separate
Zurkers for each major country- so I'm a member of Zurker UK. You can
also buy shares (in the UK they currently sell for £1 each). Each
country has a limit of one million shares.
