If you are sick and tired of Facebook changing the rules, security settings and the like, then it's time to try a new concept in social networking.
Zurker.com is just that. Something entirely different to many of the networking sites out there. As we all know, social networks are a great way to keep in contact with friends and family, find new friends etc. Privacy on these sites are always a concern. You are often required to fill out your profile which usually tends to include pretty sensitive information like your birthdate.
Zurker doesn't own you. You own IT! Every member becomes a shareholder of the site. Pretty cool, right?
'At Zurker, you are a co-owner and an investor. You can earn V-shares
by referring your friends. The more friends you invite, the more equity you earn. Zurker becomes better, and better, as
more people join, increasing in value. As Zurker becomes more valuable, your stake becomes more valuable.
Like any other social network, we ask you to refer your friends. We ask you to do some work. But we make sure you get a
slice of the pie in return.' - Zurker.com
Joining Zurker is free, so what have you go to lose? Go on, give it a go :D
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
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I say be super careful with this one. The guy who runs Zurker also used to run Fortitude Magazine. Folks would pay a membership fee and then their articles would get paid out if they made the front page. Sounds simple enough. Except that Oba’s plans didn’t pan out, he didn’t get the sponsorship he thought he would, and started to renege on payments. I got left in the lurch to the tune of $66.00. Not a lot, but I’m sure there were others taken for a lot more. On the site, the louse wrote that if folks wanted immediate payment, he got to keep a huge chunk of the money. If not, they had to wait and that it normally took something like 30 days ( I can’t remember the exact length of time, but you get the idea). When folks said it’d been over three months, his response was that it NORMALLY took about 30 days but that there was no promise as to how long it would actually take. Finally it folded. Then he had the nerve to send me this email:
You may be surprised to be receiving this email. My pet project
Fortitude Magazine crashed and burned back in 2010, and for the
longest time I was in denial.
Eventually, I decided that the best way to deal with the failure
of an overly ambitious, crazily idealistic project was to start
a project 1,000 times more ambitious and idealistic than the last
one.
And so, I decided to take on Facebook.
I got some investors together, and one year and one million
lines of code later, we’re finally launching globally, poised
to take a chunk out of Facebook’s $80+ billion valuation.
Here’s an invitation:
http://www.zurker.com/i-1-fdnwqenrxx
By way of compensation for the premature demise of Fortitude
Magazine, I am sharing my 5,000 vShare allocation in the new
project with yourself and the other members of Fortitude.
According to my records, Fortitude owed you $66. So here is a
voucher worth $66.
https://my.zurker.com/z.r?a=voucher&ac=y&v=OSTHCAWRVF
Shocked to be receiving equity in a startup? Don’t be. The new
project happens to be driven, in fact, by the idea of community
equity. I got the idea when I was brainstorming for a way to
compensate you and the other members of Fortitude.
By struggling to do the right thing, I stumbled upon what turned
out to be my greatest innovation ever. Funny how things like
that work out sometimes.
Nick Oba
I gave him a few choice words and told him what he could do with his offer. BE CAREFUL!
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