Social Overload?
Posted Friday, April 21st, 2006, at 10:28 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
Yuku is yet another social-software site, this time one that lets you blog, share images and create your own message boards all in one place. Notably, it lets you maintain up to five different profiles on the same account. This is a distant cousin to the identity aggregator for virtual worlds that I’d like to see. But Yuku probably won’t have the right kind of hooks out to those places. Mashable’s Pete Cashmore addresses a related question when he asks whether this kind of “everythingitis” can fly. His answer: No. Start-ups like Yuku should stay away from the all-services portal, in Cashmore’s view. “Specialized services that weave their way into the fabric of the web via open APIs and web widgets will likely see more growth,” he says.
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yuku isn’t actually a start up company, it’s the next generation of ezboard, which is an established message board system. yuku is taking what they do well in ezboard, and expanding it to cover many of the things that their current members have wanted for a long time.
It’s changed a lot since you posted this too, and it’s looking very sleek now!
I’m a former ezboard admin who switched over to yuku a few months ago and I wouldn’t quite describe yuku as a social-networking site a la myspace. yuku is a message board company with advanced blogging and free image sharing. My users are impressed with all the options that they have (tags, kudos, block user) and I’m very pleased with how easy it is to run a messageboard on yuku. At the risk of sounding like an infomercial, the best thing that I like about yuku is that it’s free. I don’t need to pay for my own server, domain, software upgrades, etc. yuku takes care of everything so that I can concentrate on managing and growing my message board.
Garth, sorry if I am wrong about this, but that sounded like marketing speak to me. I use and like Yuku but you paint a very rosy picture of a system that still needs some work before I’d agree with all that you said. In particular it does not have “advanced blogging” - the blogs are ok but they are hardly what I’d refer to as advanced.