VOIS: An OTC Listed Social Network

when i first enter the site, VOIS give me feel like Yahoo! especially the icon at left corner.

deadpool.

… let me qualify my post - simply too many social networking sites. VOIS could be a great site, but I think that there are already too many me too social networking sites. Best of luck to VOIS.

Hmm. Let me think. OTC-listed and run out of Boca Raton, Florida. Ouch. I would not touch that deal with a 10-foot pole.

Although I’m not a fan of the OTCBB, with respect to raising capital, the public route is another option whose time is coming back.

As smaller investors see the type of returns angels and vc’s are making and/or the valuations being thrown around on the likes of Digg, Facebook, myspace etc…it is inevitable that public equity markets become interested again in web startups.

Depending on the local laws regarding raising money from “insiders” like family and friends, etc…sometimes it can be easier to find a public shell or inactive company, merge - then complete a private placement through a boutique firm.

It’s easy to dismiss this as a Web 1.0 play, and I’m not necessarily arguing that point. What I am saying though is that markets go in cycles and now that everyone has made their buckets full of cash in oil & gas, metals & mines, they are looking for other risk to bring them the returns they were enjoying elsewhere.

Mark my words, web startups and tech will be on the upswing soon. Buyer beware though on anything on the pink sheets as the OTCBB is called.

Generally these BB plays issue very small amounts of stock…between 1-3 million shares is the norm…this way, they can control the float and then hype the stock beyond belief…and it often will run like crazy…i remeber adsp in the fall of ‘99…started 1 day at 2.50 per share…issued a misleading press release hyping something about DSL…the shorts involved with Anthony @pacific over at the very popular ‘Silicon Investor’ message boards got involved too early…the stock closed at 10…then opened the next day at 21…this is where i began shorting it…the squeeze was ON…stock traded to 57 intra-day as it wiped out hundreds of accounts…literally…people went from 500k one day to negative account value the next…i knew some of these people…closed that day at 37…over the weekend, the truth began to be exposed…opened monday at 27 and then just went into a slow death spiral for a week until it finally got back down to the single digits…

but that 27 hour ride from 2 to 57 destroyed many great amateur short sellers…i survived however and went on to thrive as a short seller as the bubble finally popped 3 1/2 months later.,..

anybody remember any of this…?…or anthony@pacific…or the old silicon investor message boards…or the value that was placed on ’silicon investor’ at the time..what an era…

i made over $6 million trading in 22 months starting with just 50k on august 4th of 1998…and 95% of the money was made on the short side…

is there anybody reading this that used to be a part of silicon investor…and remember these times…just curious

sorry for the threadjack but stories of otc bb scams just bring out the old short seller still deep inside…

Duncan, thanks for the tip. I’ll be shorting the sh*t out of this stock.

I don’t think I’ve ever come across a real entrepreneur who has benefited from an OTC listing (or a listing on any similar bottom feeder exchange). The value can never catch up with the promote and you end up dealing with ignorant retail investors who’ve been suckered by the promote. Your odds of actually being able to trade a significant number of your shares at a decent price are zero.

SO AMAZING i’m shocked. i’m dieing for this.

this looks like it’s gonna end badly

what you know about Songza fool — google it! Songza i say

Wow, what a weak post: ‘This site has none of the features you’re interested in, and is basically shitty, but they’re listed on the stock exchange, so if you’re an idiot, you can lose your shirt.’

Public listing is good to get market feedback and raise cheap riskfree capital.

http://tekno-world.blogspot.com

“VOIS is big in Egypt, Palestine and Jordan”

Very interesting.

Interesting story. Normally I would agree Boca Raton is certainly not San Francisco but it seems like a lot of new social networks are coming from that area - just look at multiply.co (in Boca Raton) (they raised like $24 mil) story I read here on tech crunch and moli.com a few miles away. I think its called the internet coast or somehting down there. From the looks of things the vois folk have been plugging away at this for a while. The alexa chart has been growing for a solid year with big increases over last 3 months

Some of the features looks interesting, hopefully it will work nice for specific niche.

They get their new members by replying to personal ads on craigslist. Their feature set is similar to myspace 2 years ago but they are adding new things. I signed up a couple weeks ago but found anything compelling on there. But then again I also never found anything compelling about myspace.

I am waiting to get an email telling me to “hurry up and buy this one…It’s going to explode!!”. I am a financial analyst and I can almost guaranty you that this is NOT a good investment idea….Of course, if you like pump and dump schemes you may be in luck!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAWN… these “social” sites are multiplying faster the rabbits, looking forward to the long overdue cull.

Jon

I actually think the site is kind of unique! I just signed up and thought the my favorite URL was cool and I can see by they are big in foreign lands since they have the quick comment features. The customize section has thousands of graphics…..I feel this could catch on

I am not educated enough in the stock market to pass judgment on that aspect, but I think the site is quite a bit better then some of the competitors. I have been on the site for months and cannot believe the dramatic changes they have made to it. I have sent in suggestions and they actually respond and make the changes I have requested. For this reason alone they will have one up on the competition.

Don’t know what you guys are talking about. If it were to be a failure, it wouldn’t have been on the OTC, investors wouldn’t have backed it and it won’t be trading at $9 when companies such as local.com are trading around $4. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get listed on NASDAQ sometime soon.

From a design aspect, VOIS is very well done.

The ease of navigation and user friendly customization makes it easy for your everyday person to feel they have control of their own look for their page.

On a financial aspect.

Sometimes companies use the BB as a platform to get to a higher exchange, so people shouldn’t be so negative.

I really enjoy Vois and all it stands for.
Very interesting!

I really like the Vois site. It’s easy to understand and the people seem real! Thanks Vois!

I have signed up with them and liked the fact they have a business perspective, business social networking in their approach.

You get a chance to expose your services, find like minded business people etc etc. Never found this on any other site. Did you?

I get to see who has been looking at me and that is pretty interesting so is the epost, but my favorite is the speed search. This site will get more attention from me now thanks michael

So no VC’s anymore…OTC is the new route.

http://www.meetingflex.com

spam

the only thing that seems like spam on this site is the yelp sucks guy

hey, if anyone from vois is listening thanks for the site, it’s GREAT, good luck!!!

To Scott #18:

Like I said in #5, I don’t care for otc stocks, but I do have a question for you.

In most cases when someone in the oil & gas or metals & mines sector (usually a geologist) is convinced they’ve found something, they turn to the public markets to raise the money.

A company like Ultra Petroleum, which now trades on the Amex at $50, and has solid assets in both the US and China started out on what was the sleezy Vancouver stock exchange to raise the money they needed to sink the drills and get some results. This was a $1.90 stock as little as 10 years ago. As a financial analyst I’m sure you’ve heard of the stock and wouldn’t have much bad to say about it - although your attitude suggests you’d try.

So, back to tech. Why the negativity? You appear to have little or no knowledge on the stock, the company, or what their future plans are - yet you throw out the term pump and dump and slam them. As a FA you may not recommend their stock to anyone (based on the goals of the individual investor and their risk profile), but they didn’t deserve to be thrashed and labeled as a con.

That is unless you have some further information you’d like to share with the rest of the group???

@Vishal Mehta

“Don’t know what you guys are talking about. If it were to be a failure, it wouldn’t have been on the OTC, investors wouldn’t have backed it and it won’t be trading at $9 when companies such as local.com are trading around $4. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get listed on NASDAQ sometime soon.”

Local.com has a higher market cap than VOIS. Stock price is irrelevant. You need to multiply stock price x shares outstanding to see the market capitalization, which is a true measure of the markets assessment of a companies worth. As an example, Berkshire Hathaway shares, which have never split, trade at $132,000 a share, and the company has a market cap. of ~$200 billion. Exxon shares trade at $87 and the company has a market cap of ~$485 billion. In any case, what is the point of this post? There are tons of crappy social networking sites…you can make your own with NING in no time. There are also tons of crappy companies traded on the pink sheets (and surely some good ones as well). This post serves no purpose. I agree with Josh and his assessment. “‘This site has none of the features you’re interested in, and is basically shitty, but they’re listed on the stock exchange, so if you’re an idiot, you can lose your shirt.”

@Vishal Mehta

wow. you demonstrate a total lack of understanding of stock price.

Think about this… if someone says they’ll sell you half of a Honda Accord for $15,000 or one thousandth of a Ferrari for $100, do you think that a Honda Accord is a better car than a Ferrari? Because that’s essentially the comparison you made.

Stock price has a LOT to do with what percentage of the company you get when you buy it. And as #33 said, multiplying by the number of shares outstanding helps you make a value judgment on the company. Stock price, times number of shares outstanding, tells you the market capitalization (or how much the WHOLE company is worth to the “market”). Then you can compare apples to apples.

In my car example, 15K x 2 = 30K. $100 x 1000 = 100K. The 100K Ferrari is “worth more”.

THIS IS GREAT!

Just what we needed! Another social network site!

This has made my day. I am so happy now that I am actually shitting rainbows.

Hey Alexanderpink

“‘This site has none of the features you’re interested in,

What features do you think they are missing? You shouldn’t make a comment like that without at least showing what features could help. They seem to have more features then myspace, hi5, friendster? So what makes them so bad?

I looked at their news
http://money.cnn.com/news/news.....2007-1.htm

What do you think of their BRIC strategy? Those 15 fastest growing countries to target?

@Len: The only reason a technology company turns to the OTC:BB is because they can’t raise money from credible investors, or because they are seeking to benefit from some short-term hype that never produces a real business. I’d be surprised if you could refer me to some truly successful technology companies (i.e. who have launched a real technology-related service or product and are profitable and demonstrating consistent growth) that are OTC:BB listed, or point to others who have successfully made the transition to a senior exchange.

VOIS IS A BLAST!!!—-I HAVE TRIED OTHERS AND HATED THEM. IF YOUR LOOKING TO MEET NEW AND INTERESTING PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD—-THEN VOIS IS THE RIGHT SPOT.

This seems like a sham site.

I’m certain I’ve seen good old “Cindy blue eyes” on facebook somewhere recently, not NJ, not 28, not Cindy. Seems to be a new fad of recycling photos e.g:

http://www.seekingmillionaire......?id=119971

Dan

To quicklly answer your question I can refer you to many but I guess you never heard of a stock BIDZ.com stock BIDZ they went otcbb to nasdaq just in june 2007 $6 to $14 a share take a look
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-164531398.html
chart
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?.....q=l&c=

In this market who is doing an ipo? especially in the usa
alibaba just did theirs on hong kong exchange
exchange

I have looked at the information above, and joined the vois site. I find that this is a very neat site and easy to find my way around. There are not a lot of children, teens, or young adults. People here seem to be about my age range.

When I go onto my Myspace page I get hammered with ad’s for ringtones and medical marajuna. There were kids inviting me to raves and bulletins galore of things that make me feel old. I am 48 years old and have never rave’d.

I feel that this vois is something I will give a try. I can always go to the rave later if it does not work out. lol.

Oh yeah Nasdaq was a OTC company before they went on the Nasdaq. Can you imagine that? Nasdaq was on the OTC. You can’t make that kind of stuff up.

I hope the Yelp guy stays here.

There are too many of this social networking sites now. I think it’s just getting to be too much.

VOIS is not like all the other social forums. True, there are hundreds of them out there. But this one is right up there with MySpace. What makes it even better is that it is extremely user-friendly and easy to navigate. The founders are always doing updates to improve the ease of use. Unlike other sites, it is very “business-friendly” and is a great way to market yourself in whatever profession you are in.

Above all, the people who run the site are very attainable and always answer your questions or emails promptly. It’s certainly not like trying to get in touch with “Tom” and getting an automatically-generated reply. Gary and Herb are REAL people and will respond to your needs. I know because I am one of the original first sign-up participants and anytime I have ever sent a message I get a personal response in return.

This site is destined to be bigger and better than Facebook, Hi5 and numerous other sites that are more or less a waste of time. You’d be smart to stick with it and interact with other business professionals because you never know just who you might meet one day.

Here’s to a prosperous day….

@ #38 Daniel Gibbons and others

Believe it or not, Intermix Media (previously eUniverse) was an OTC listed company and they had a pretty decent product (MySpace, among other valuable internet properties). They seemed to do okay - if okay is selling our company a few months too soon and for about 1/10th of the value. Seriously, they made to jump to legitimacy from the OTCBB and created a product with stying power.

I don’t care what the others say negatively about this site, I think it is the best out there!

YAAA VOIS

#44

eUniverse (ticker EUNI) was traded on the nasdaq back in the day before being delisted. Intermix Media (new company name) then traded on the AMEX.

Neither of those two companies ever traded on the OTC, which is a much shadier way of listing a public company.

VOIS has pump and dump written all over it.

To Daniel #38:

As I said in both of my earlier posts, I’m not a fanboy of the OTCBB, so I won’t be trying to validate their existence. I’ve never bought or sold any stock listed on the pick cheats. (funny that spelling mistake wasn’t intentional but I’ve left it)

My comparison with respect to oil & gas and metals & mines was simply used to illustrate the point that there are more ways to raise capital to build a company, than to shop it out to angels and venture funds. Often these industries requires dumptrucks of cash to drill their holes and fly their 3d equipment to prove what’s in the ground. Quite a few times they fail and no different than the multitudes of tech startups that fail for any number of reasons.

The way you and others have posted your comments, you are classifying those companies using an alternative method to raise funds as fraudsters. Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t - I don’t know.

However unless you’ve seen their b-plan, or some further info on the company that suggests that they are not worthy of any valuation, your comments are as baseless as their stock price may be.

Oh, and for all of those people who have never posted here before and are giving rave reviews of the site - you can save your time - it’s quite obvious what you’re up to.

To Vic,
I dont know about these countries, but it is very popular here in Atlanta. And most important – people are real. Thats all I need.

At Josh (#12)

Wow, what negative energy. It is quite obvious that you didn`t even try Vois.
Real people. Real connections.
For me, it is pretty simple:
Nowhere on net are you able to find any tools for vois such as MySpace add friends bots or similar.
But, of course, it all depends of you … if you like to chat with fake ones – MS is right for you. Enjoy it!

I’m in the same category as Mr. Luccerini. Seems that the site has we geezers in mind. I could live without some of the glimmer and glitz. But, if that’s what attracts zillions of people around the world. Then maybe the world is destined to be a better (glimmery glitzy) place. I like communicating with adults. It really is a phenomenon. Values, Wall Street, did VOIS play a part in the sub-prime meltdown? I doubt it. I like it. It’s fun. It’s a great alternative to real life. Let your VOIS be heard!

I have tested out and joined many sites similar to vois, but the vois site by far is the easiest to navigate and the people are real. Vois is a very fun site and the people are very friendly. You can make real connections on vois unlike most of the other sites. I believe that it is a winner and that this site is ready to explode. Try it out for yourself.

If you ask me, it looks like 98% of the ‘users’ on the website were created by VOIS employees to make it seem like they had a user base. Everything on the site seems like an ad for VOIS.

Guys on vois are doing great job against spam.
It is surprising how comfortable I feel with their ways of handling spam! And whoever hung around on any soc. network really knows how crucial that is!.
The fact that they are public is just one added benefit for investors who wish they were able to invest in Myspace or facebook before they became so big. When they trade on a major exchange one day I will look back at these posts and smirk!

@Len: I understand what you’re saying, but at no time did I say that the VOIS guys were fraudsters; I simply pointed out that raising money via an OTC:BB listing in the technology space is a sign that credible investors weren’t interested, OR that the founders are promoters looking to hype a penny stock.

The first option, not being able to raise money from credible investors, doesn’t necessarily mean there is anything wrong with their business plan since there are so many other variables involved. But I don’t believe that any technology entrepreneur sees an OTC:BB listing as anything close to their first choice. And the odds are that they personally will not succeed because stocks on the pink sheets are so subject to manipulation and hype, and the value of the business is never reflected accurately in the stock price.

I guess my point is that even if the VOIS guys have the very best of intentions, this kind of public listing inherently surrounds the company with promoters and investors whose idea of patience is how long they can go between refreshing the stock quote.

I`m not into the market or anything financial, but one thing I know,
No one ever asked me to pay for anything on vois. No spam messages nor emails (unlike many other sites which trade with our email accounts). Every now and then I see some new things on site, generally innovative, yet, easy to use. Seems like they really care for their members needs. I appreciate that. I`m really not into OTC or any stocks for that matter but surely respect their efforts. Way to go!

The Vois Bulletin Board initiative allows everyone and anyone to cash in on the success of the social networking phenomenon. Why let Mark Zuckerberg or Tom Anderson have all the fun?

Unlike many of the other MySpaces, Facebooks, and Hi-5s of the world, Vois is intuitive to navigate, user-friendly (particularly for people who have never been a member of a social networking community before), never seems to go “down” (ah-hem Friendster), and responsive to members, suggestions. I have personally interacted with the Vois team, proposed improvements for the site and then seen these changes implemented. By listening to the collective wants and needs of its members, the Vois team almost seems to take a “back seat” and allow the site’s development to be driven by the people who matter most… the end users.

If members’ demands continue to be met, then it is feasible to conclude that people will choose to invest in something that they’ve had a “hand” in creating. Sounds like the Vois Team is strategizing to establish “built-in” demand for their stock price. I’m sold on the site… and the stock!

I am a gadget freak and void is very PDA friendly. I am on my iPhone now and people told me not to buy this. I paid too much but I am a fan. I also owned a chineese company against my old feeling, it is now on the amex. Seems the insiders own 92% of the company. As far as evil doings go, this stock trades by appointment. Hardly something i would call a pump and dump. Looks like some banks that have large inside ownership. Maybe this company is not interested in financing and is just first to public market. This is a stock i will watch. Time will tell, lets play monday morning quarterback in a year. I always say woulda coulda shuda. My iphone works great on the site so i am a site lover. Stock may be another story.

I agree with Len (#48). So many raving reviews from people we never see comment here. I suppose not everyone reads and posts comments here that often, but for those of us that do, you people stand out like sore thumbs.

Back off shills.

How about telling us abouut the open standards Vois intends to support? OpenID? OpenAuth? Even OpenSocial would be ok.

We don’t need another walled garden, thanks.

@ # 46 Brett

eUniverse was traded on the OTCBB before they made the jump to NASDAQ. Maybe they were under the name CDUniverse then (that’s how they started). Brad Grenspan raised some cash from some NY bankers and bought CDUniverse from some guy in Connecticut (I’m pretty sure that’s where it was based). They somehow took it public by reversing in through a public shell (I don’t know all of the details here). Point is, an OTCBB company with humble beginnings can grow into something viable.

@ 46 Brett

proof of OTCBB listing: http://www.prnewswire.com.au/c.....amp;EDATE=

@#18 (Scott)
Facebook is valued at 15 billiion and doesn’t even trade on an exchange, are you saying you wouldn’t have bought shares in that company if they traded on the OTC at 9 dollars?

Besides my connections in the states, VOIS is still best way to find real people during my euro trips.
Highly recommended!

@no35 “Whatever”:

don’t you think your rainbow is kinda dark … lol
What are you talking about?
Vois is much more than classic social network site. Thats why they`re growing so fast.
They have support of their members. Did you ever play with all their features?
But, hey, why am I trying to show colors to guy who is deep in his own “rainbow”?

This is a good thing for all

Blazing fast video search:
http://www.meetingflex.com/SearchVideo.aspx

Vois is my favorite site… Gary, Herb and their staff are always ready to give any situation their personal attention…Gary is always right on top of things…I always get an immediate response when I have a question or a problem..I don’t know of any other sites that I’m on that the founders will talk to you directly or try to solve your problems themselves..Most of the other sites you go thru channels and it takes days sometimes to get an answer.. I have made a lot of great friends on Vois and I give this site my full support…

I am a very critical person and do not mice with words. I have 2+ sites on the net. I have only been with VOIS since the beginning of the year and have made my voice heard very strongly. Although I am not familiar with all of the “i” dotting and “t” crossing; I can speak as a member. VOIS like any other network has it’s growing pains but I have to give it to “The Boys” as you call them. They do show signs of working hard for the members and to better the network. I understand that there will always be downsides to any organization but I have to give them a plus for all of there efforts. Now I really have to believe that the person that made the statement that most of the members are coming from the staff could not have been to the VOIS site at any given time. This is one woman’s opinion!

If you want to focus on the stock go to a stock forum. I do not belong to this site cause they are public, I belong to it cause it is good. As a member, and now knowing it is public it makes me want to become a shareholder seeing how far the site has come. There is also a distinct difference between pink sheet companies and OTC BB stocks, you should get your facts straight before making inaccurate remarks.

Vois has many features Myspace doesn’t, first of all I don’t have kids asking to connect and I have met some wonderful people on VOIS.

The owners always reply to you and you don’t have to go through customer service.

Any problems I have had were resolved and I was contacted and informed they corrected the problem. When the 419 scammers contacted me and I reported it they were deleted.

I am not bad mouthing Myspace because I met some wonderful people there also, but VOIS is great to me.

God bless.

Wrong crowd to shill to and I find most of your comments VERY disconcerting. Especially since you can not reply to any issue I, or anyone that normally comments here, has raised.

Seems like there are some “differentiators” these users (read: employees) are trying to drive home:

1) “Myspace has spam friend requests”- but Vois has real ppl that are just wonderful.
2) “The developers really listen to us” - my voice means something and I’m not just a number

You all that claim Vois is the second coming of the web cannot be anonymous (no real links) because you are coming here testifying to something. “Chloe, Nicole2229, Zed, Simon, Audrey,Henrietta, Cee, Sergey. Debbie”.

WTF? Are you all aware how many females normally post comments here?

Duncan? Can you please check the IPs of these posters and confirm they are indeed all unique?

I, and others, can post anon b/c we are critically analyzing the merits of the site and bringing up issues we have with the idea of YET_ANOTHER_SOCIAL_NETWORK

truly pathetic

Why do all of these “social” sites have to be soooo ugly?

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

voice is good socail site. design and usablity is fine .

you can visit islamonline.net to know more about islam.

Let me start by giving full disclosure. I do own shares of Vois Inc. I actually owned shares of its predecessor, Medstrong International, which have since been converted into Vois shares after a reverse merger and name change. Obviously, I have a vested interest in the success of Vois. Nevertheless, I am going to make this post as objective as humanly possible.

Firstly, I am not an idiot. I do realize that there are a plethora of social networking websites and that Vois is currently a little fish in a big pond. I also know that OTC instills fear in the hearts of many an investor. (A point of clarification is in order - OTC is not the “pink sheets.” Pink sheets stocks are far riskier as there is absolutely no reporting requirements. Thus, for the poster(s) who refer to Vois as a pink sheet stock, I really think you’re being dishonest and misleading. Also, the fact that Vois trades on the BB is due to the its corporate predecessor having been listed there.)

Now this is going to sound like a hair club commercial but it’s the truth: Not only am I a shareholder of Vois, I am also a member. (Lorenzo, age 36. Check it out if you’d like.) I figured the least I could do was put my mouth where my money was, so to speak. I wanted to get involved and see what it was all about. I joined in December, 2006 and have logged on religiously every day since. I have made a bunch of new friends, including the two founders, Gary and Herb, and even Chloe who has posted on here. (Hey babe!) I’ve also gotten my friends from work involved. They’re on vois for the same reason as I am - - to meet like minded individuals, share some photos, post or comment on blogs, “pimp” our profiles, express ourselves on line in a non-offensive way, and basically have just a little bit of fun in an otherwise dreary, none-fun world.

I’ve also taken advantage of the blog feature on vois which is as good or better than any others out there. It is certainly one of the most user friendly I have come across. And, for some reason or another, people actually read my rants. If you go to the vois home page and click on blogs, go to most viewed. I’m number 4 with over 2,000 reads.

Also, any member will agree that the site is constantly being upgraded with new features. Users can have multiple photo albums and even private albums. Vois members can use the chat feature to communicate in real time. There are thousands of customize features, comments, backgrounds, etc. And with only a click on your home page, you can find all other members who share your interest in a particular movie, band, book, etc. And, being almost computer illiterate, the user friendliness of Vois is welcomed. It is also nice that there aren’t any 12 year olds on this site. It’s 18 and over and most of the people I’ve met are more in the 25-50 range, i.e., my range!

Look, I have no idea if Vois is ever going to catch on and become synonymous with facebook and myspace. But I do know that a whole lot of effort is going into this site daily. I also know that the two founders, Gary and Herb, are extremely responsive. I usually get a response to my messages within a day and have even spoken with them on the phone a few times to discuss the site. In fact, Gary has called me to defend a certain action taken by Vois after I criticized them in a blog. So believe me when I say that I am more than willing to call a spade a spade.

As for those referring this to a pump and dump, my response is as follows: With a “pump and dump” scheme, the point is to inflate a stock price by posting false or misleading statements in order to garner interest. The company being “pumped” usually has very little substance behind it. Vois is not such a company. First of all, it has been a publicly traded company for a year and has flown so far under the radar that it has hardly traded at all. It’s daily volume was about 300 shares. Thus, there has been no “pumping” whatsoever. Please google vois.com or Vois Inc. and show me what can remotely be considered a “pump.”

More importantly is the fact that there is a lot of substance here. Just look at the site itself, which I think speaks volumes. Be real honest. Does it look remotely shitty to any of you? I think it looks pretty damn vibrant, user friendly, interactive, relevant, contemporary, professional and alive. Do all of the naysayers among us think it is that easy to create such a site? Would people really go through all of that effort, expense and resources if this were such a scam? I tend to doubt it. Perhaps I’m being naive. Wouldn’t be the first time. And if I am being naive, then I’m probably going to lose some money soon. Wouldn’t be the first time for that either. Funny how investing goes. You win some. You lose some. I’d like to think of myself as cautiously optimistic. And honest.

No one knows what the future holds for Vois. It could become a household name in a couple of years, or it can go by the wayside without registering so much as a blip on the 2.0 radar. Can’t we at least give it some time before we decide its fate?

I’ve been on vois for a couple of months now. It’s been a great social networking site for me personally as well as my business. It’s really easy to maneuver around the site, and add things to, or taking things away from your profile is very uncomplicated.

I think this site is more like the myspace for grownups. Love it.

I learned in college bars: “beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.”

This site is amazing!
It’s very easy to use and friendly designed, besides there is so many features that makes me really happy using the site. I signed up 2 months ago and now I have so many friends there.

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“beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.”

That’s why they are called beer goggles. or was it google’s?

Because all the fist female employees at Google are very attractive now to some men regardless of what they look like, or what you have been drinking.

Beauty is 401k deep. I could not refuse. sorry.

There’s nothing wrong with Web 1.0 per se! There are many terrific sites that are strictly 1.0 and deliver the goods (such as, er, ours). But for a social networking site it might be a bit better to be totally 2.0ish.

One Question?

“VOIS is big in Egypt, Palestine and Jordan”.

Can someone please tell me where exactly is there any country on this planet called Palestine?

And th shills keep coming until….we have the troll

JQ: If you don’t know how to use the interwebs, try this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine

Thanks Stu - you must be philistinian.

As in the word philistine refers to a person deficient in the culture of the liberal arts; or can also connote a smug and intolerant opponent of the bohemian, one who exhibits a restrictive moral code. See Philistinism.

You can find that too on wikipedia … the source of all truth.

Thank you Stu - protector of the universe. Maybe you should run for office.

Did someone ask for IP address check on this? I too am curious.

Oh & btw stuey, the question as for a “country” not a “geographical area known as Palestine”.

How is this news? Techcrunch is going downhill. Most of VOIS members likely joined b/c they were spammed…and never returned after they realized this site was a sham. Just look at most of the posts to this article…they stink of spam. I bet most of them are from the same IP Address or geographical region…cough Boca Raton cough. I was on the site for a short time frame and I can’t believe how many “people” wanted to be my friend that seemed like bots or company hired individuals (VOIS tries hard to make you feel like it’s a real network). Just look at the first person who spammed me:
http://www.vois.com/index.php/.....lkPTQ2ODU3

God help any poor fool who buys into this stock on Monday.

I can’t believe TC has resorted to stock pumping.

JQ: not sure where you get “protector”, i just hate stupidity. Go look up the Country Code for Palestine, they have one.

Wow, nothing says ‘web 1.0′ and ’shitty stock’ more than dozens of similarly phrased comments praising vois

WOW!! You posters here are so smart!
This is the first pump stock I have seen trade this huge amount of ZERO shares! You tech people should stick to commenting on tech articles and not make uneducated remarks about topics you obviously have no clue about!

Every day, new and new social networking sites are popping out. I try em out. Seems, this one is interesting. but some profile pictures are real nasty.. can’t use this one where my family and kids check frequently near by me

Not to weigh in on Stu and JQ’s conversation, but Stu, JQ is correct - there is no country known as Palestine. It is a moniker used to refer to an area of the globe, most of which is part of Israel. Palestine is a territory at best, especially as its semi-autonomous government has been at war with itself for the past few years…

Seriously TC, you have dropped in the quality of your reporting.

Not to mention that bragging that your site is in the top 1000 sites for 3 “countries” which have extremely low levels of internet access and/or literacy, is fairly inane. Kind of like saying “Welcome to Mike’s Dive Shop - the top scuba diving emporium in South West El Paso”…

TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT VOIS YOU GUYS ARE SO PROFESSIONAL AND HAS IT GOING ON.SINCE I BEEN WITH VOIS I HAVE NOT YET TO CALL OR SPEAK WITH SOMEONE ABOUT A PROBLEM AND THEY ARE RIGHT THERE WITH A HELPING HAND.I LOVE THIS SITE YOU GET TO COMMUNICATE WITH INDIVIDUALS AND MOST OF THE PEOPLE I CONNECT WITH ARE JUST AWSOME.VOIS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND REMEMBER NO WEAPON FORM AGAIST US SHALL PROSPER.THANKS VOIS AND I JUST LOVE YOU GUYS.

Vois has been a great tool for the unsigned artists to come to and get heard. I myself have enjoyed the site and the way it is professionaly run. Thankyou - JBE