Comments on: ZooLoo Is A Social Network That Basically Never Wants You To Leave

By: ZooLoo Gets A Facelift With Revamped Homepage, Navigation, And Widgets | ScooperNews.com

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:02:03 +0000

[...] their entire social network experience from one place — when it launched we described as an iGoogle meets Facebook, in that it’s a single hub that lets you interact with your Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace [...]

By: ZooLoo Gets A Facelift With Revamped Homepage, Navigation, And Widgets

ZooLoo Gets A Facelift With Revamped Homepage, Navigation, And Widgets — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:48:15 +0000

By: Nepal trekking

Nepal trekking — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:44:21 +0000

looks nice. keep it up

thanks

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:38:47 +0000

I went to school with Jill, one of the founders, and was excited to hear she had started this. Hoping it goes well for them – trying it out now.

By: ZooLoo: Startpage, Social Network and Personal Portal All Rolled Into One | Widgets Lab

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:44:58 +0000

[...] TC Technorati Tags: ZooLoo,Startpage,widget startpage,widget social network,widget portal site [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:02:11 +0000

The profile page is a rip off of myspace.

By: Scales

Scales — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:34:32 +0000

ZooLoo new tagline = Your Name. Your Domain. Our Ads.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:44:25 +0000

You don’t have to pay the 29 bucks to use the site. The 29 dollars is if want your own domain name.

You are basically paying for domain registration and a year of hosting of your personal site or blog. That’s a pretty damn good deal on it’s own, but you also get all the other features.

Everyone wants to compare it to something else, but there is really nothing like it. It does have have areas that are similar to the sites mentioned but no one has all the elements of the sites combined in 1 place. That is the key different here, convenience and domain/site ownership.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:53:44 +0000

ZooLoo is like Navigaya, Netvibes, Schmedley, iGoogle, PageFlakes, Protopage, etc. with blogging features like Xanga and somewhat similar to a FanBox…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:22:51 +0000

Agree with Terry – People are not going to spend $29 a year for this service.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:57:43 +0000

People would stop using facebook if they had to pay. People would stop using twitter if they had to pay. People would stop using myspace if they had to pay.

People will not pay for zooloo.

By: cLc

cLc — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:11:12 +0000

Sounds awesome. I don’t think it’s meant to compete with Facebook, and I love the fact that you can opt to use your own domain.

By: WesleyDonehue.com

WesleyDonehue.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:39:32 +0000

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By: Brooke

Brooke — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:13:41 +0000

I’ve been an Alpha tester on ZooLoo for a few months and it’s be great so far. ZooLoo does utilize Facebook Connect and the Twitter API. Also don’t worry about that yellow background, the writer chose that, you can customize your background colors to your taste. They also have a pretty cool site builder that is a major benefit to having your own domain. You can create a personal site and blog in addition to the other features the article mentions. There are a lot of things on the site that are not covered in the article and I think most people will be surprised at how many features there are. It is nothing like the other sites that have been posted in the comments.

By: Andrew Pass

Andrew Pass — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:40:11 +0000

Zooloo looks like a really interesting site. It might work well in the K-12 educational system, serving as a central hub for classrooms.

By: Wosnaht Lee

Wosnaht Lee — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:01:48 +0000

I agree with Shane, Schmedley is pretty sweet. Must admit I’ve never heard of it until reading this post and looking at the comments, but I’m loving the whole Mootools interfacing.

As far as Zooloo goes, I need to say though, why would I ever want to use my own domain for this? It’s bad enough people don’t even register their own domains out of neglect, or lack of time or whatever, but if you do own your own domain, wouldn’t you want people to see something that’s representative of who you are?

If I had my own domain and it’s a whole iGoogle-ish interface, would everyone else then see all my Zooloo widgets I’ve installed as well? What this would do is present people with even more information overload and random data and posts than they already see by Googling your name and coming up with your facebook, twitter, linkedin etc. Personally, my personal domain has all of my pertinent information that I choose to show the public.

By: Dave-O

Dave-O — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:55:24 +0000

Think original; Schmedley is just taking too much from Apple. Icon and UI theft abound.

No shame.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:33:59 +0000

Ian makes an excellent point about the prevalence of password fatigue when it comes to registering for new web applications. This makes technologies like OpenID all the more valuable.

JanRain’s RPX solution (http://rpxnow.com) allows websites to accept logins from major providers like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Windows Live ID, Twitter, MySpace and AOL. RPX can be deployed in a few hours or less and allows websites to extend their reach through social publishing features.

As Forrester noted in its five-year forecast for social media, walled gardens across the web are beginning to crumble in favor of greater social interaction and interoperability between sites. OpenID and easy deployment solutions like RPX help accelerate this shift.

We would love to chat with Zooloo about the benefits of adopting OpenID.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:20:43 +0000

Schmedley is far and away the best user interface I have ever seen. Seriously…awesome…

By: Valley PR Blog » Blog Archive » Time to get your ‘Zoo’ on

Valley PR Blog » Blog Archive » Time to get your ‘Zoo’ on — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:19:08 +0000

[...] told us about a Scottsdale start-up called ZooLoo that was getting ready to launch. Well, according to TechCrunch it looks like today is the big day for ZooLoo, although I wouldn’t say the tech blog is overly optimistic about the chances for [...]

By: Dustin Caruso

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:11:17 +0000

seems an awful lot like something we’ve already built (that often doesn’t get noticed)…

schmedley – http://schmedley.com

By: Liza Hausman

Liza Hausman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:04:57 +0000

Hi, based on user comments here, you guys may want to check out Gigya Socialize, it’s free and is designed to make it easy for sites/services like yours to easily add and maintain social and authentication features.

http://www.gigy...nt/GS/Home.aspx

By: Liza Hausman

Liza Hausman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:02:59 +0000

MG, would love to introduce you to Gigya Socialize.

Gigya Socialize aggregates FB Connect, MySpaceID, SigninwithTwitter and OpenID for Gmail, AOL Mail and Yahoo Mail into a single, easy to use API. Full API available, or sites can use Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla plugins, a few applications etc.

Turner Sports is using it for NBA and NASCAR web coverage, and many more soon to be announced.

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LMKWYT

By: Melissa Rzeppa

Melissa Rzeppa — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:22:31 +0000

TechCrunch is one the case, as usual! But, it’s still a bit early. We are hard at work putting the final touches on ZooLoo so check back soon….

By: Chris Wheat

Chris Wheat — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:55:37 +0000

I will try it out, tried signing in with ie8 newest and get “Unfortunately, it looks like you’re using an old version of Internet Explorer® that we do not support.

Please download the latest version, or better yet, download one of the other recommended browsers using the links below (ZooLoo operates much better in those browsers!), for free.”

So it appears their browser sniffing script needs some work, as it is not correctly detecting IE versions.