Ziki, This week’s new Social Network

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1. Zoli Erdos
   

   April 23rd, 2006 at 3:31 pm

   My recommendation to users is to wear sunglasses… those neon colors are blinding:-(

2. Olivier Ruffin
   

   April 23rd, 2006 at 3:42 pm

   Michael,

   Sorry about the problem that you had at signup up time but i was pushing some new code on the plateform

   For the confirmation email, i’m sorry to say that our system is trying hard to send you a confirmation mail, but until now, we keep having timeout with your mail server

   Exemple : Apr 24 01:17:53 ziki postfix/smtp[31734]: 5D7222E065: to=, relay=mail.techcrunch.com[216.70.72.196], delay=2603, status=deferred (conversation with mail.techcrunch.com[216.70.72.196] timed out while sending end of data — message may be sent more than once)

3. leafar
   

   April 23rd, 2006 at 3:51 pm

   Le web français en force !
   Cool

4. Nil
   

   April 23rd, 2006 at 4:32 pm

   Just out of curiosity.

   Michael, how do you select companies you want to feature on Techcrunch. Any criterias you consider.

5. Mike Jones
   

   April 23rd, 2006 at 4:44 pm

   and the business models is … ?

6. Russell Limprecht
   

   April 23rd, 2006 at 4:51 pm

   More interesting than Suprglu.

7. P-
   

   April 23rd, 2006 at 5:00 pm

   >>Also, I repeatedly got errors trying to submit my registration, and never received my confirmation email allowing me to log in.

8. P-
   

   April 23rd, 2006 at 5:02 pm

   Experience same prob. P-
   Mavin Stories… See Where It Leads You.

9. matt
   

   April 23rd, 2006 at 5:41 pm

   OMFG the colors, my EYES they are burning

10. Christopher
    

    April 23rd, 2006 at 6:10 pm

    The logo reminds me of a swastika. Maybe that’s why it’s so hard to sign up. Damn Nazis.

11. Saul Weiner
    

    April 23rd, 2006 at 6:47 pm

    The Arrington effect strikes again. Best load tester in the world = review on Techcrunch.

12. Dharmesh Shah
    

    April 23rd, 2006 at 7:53 pm

    They really need to revisit their overall website (starting with the colors).

    As for the business model, I don’t see one. Perhaps its just a project and not a business (yet)?

13. Mike
    

    April 23rd, 2006 at 8:09 pm

    I would think the bizmodel is targeted ads, data mining, etc

14. chad
    

    April 23rd, 2006 at 8:57 pm

    agree with the colors… Needs some adjustment….

15. Kashif Aziz
    

    April 23rd, 2006 at 10:15 pm

    Got the account activation email in few minutes

16. Armin
    

    April 24th, 2006 at 12:46 am

    Would these sites ever stop coming up one after another? It’s all the same…

    “Web 2.0″ just another way to capitalize on web 1.0… or 1.5…

17. javerain
    

    April 24th, 2006 at 12:46 am

    Similar to GROU.PS

18. Alberto
    

    April 24th, 2006 at 1:07 am

    I had no problem registering…

    #5. And the business model is (could be): hte features for companies and/or groups, “dating mining” (what a term!)

19. Ben
    

    April 24th, 2006 at 1:32 am

    I’s a cool project but found myself a bit lost in all this. I follow Michael thoughts about easy sign up. I think we should only give a mail and a password, and then, if the service is awesome and if people want to get more involved, they will fill more information afterward.

    Makes me think of something I read on ludicorp’s website (www.ludicorp.com), in the “Job” part :

    “… a chance to work on something that hundreds of thousands of people will not only use, but love”

    isn’t it the way startups should work to make people involved in their projects ?

20. Jean-Marc
    

    April 24th, 2006 at 6:53 am

    I don’t want to sound negative, but don’t these sites need tons of members to work effectively? To get that you need to focus on a target audience and really deliver what they want - if you’re going after myspace (good luck you’ll need to start sponsoring concerts, events, etc. If you’re going after web geeks you’ll need to do the same but at fancy coffee shops around Seattle
    This market doesn’t strike me as one where you can sit back passively and expect users to sign up, and that’s hard to do when you don’t have venture financing/a unique business plan.
    Also, please drop the colors
    Best of luck though. It takes balls to launch a company!

21. bangzhong
    

    April 24th, 2006 at 7:09 am

    want to have a try

22. Ashish
    

    April 24th, 2006 at 11:11 am

    I don’t understand why you mention sites like this, seems like a waste of time.

23. Craig Cockburn
    

    April 24th, 2006 at 11:50 am

    I agree with the comment “Ziki requires too much personal information, such as my birthdate”. I refuse to supply such information as it’s usually not any of the website’s business and also on an unsecure form who knows what identity thief will have access to it en route. If they want a date, I suggest making one up such as your wedding date minus 30 years or something. Usually works for me and keeps the identity theifs at bay.

24. Peter
    

    April 27th, 2006 at 3:40 am

    when i heard of the requirements for birth date (social security number, etc.), i felt an incredible sense of ‘yep - i know _exactly_ what happened there’. it was an out of control CEO - or some other luzer - who felt they could just do what they wanted and users would actually comply. of course, the Ziki techies knew that users would say ‘FU’, they told the ‘decider’ implicity and explicitly that requiring the user’s favorite sexual fantasy b4 the website delivered _any value at all_ was a _really_ bad idea, but the decider went ahead with it - thinking, well, we’re like GE now - we’re huge, we got money, and what we say goes - all those other community sites are trash. what’s the worst that can happen? well, i suspect we’re about to find out.

    obviously, the decider had been bolstered by one too many false positive success stories over their overhyped careers. fine line, confidence/arrogance/ignorance yadda yadda.

25. Craig
    

    April 29th, 2006 at 4:33 pm

    I would say requiring all that personal info is going to hurt them. Only allow them to provide it if the want to. Open communications is what you want. Checkout Onmycity.com

26. philip tadros
    

    May 8th, 2006 at 10:01 pm

    the colors are bad, but it’s ok, you can still change them, looks like i’m a little late on this article but i found it after googl’n “new social network” anyway, once i sign up, i really don’t know what i’m supose to do, ther is plenty rooom for new company’s, but having tags and feeds aren’t going to make it happen for you, maybe you should consider investing in what i’m doing.. i’m sorry, i sounded like an ass’ i’ll stop now, http://www.metroproper.com
    TAG! ooo bigger ass;) no, really what can you tie into’ if myspace is growing so fast that helps the fact that people are into this type of networking.. find your nitch change your colors’ go balls!