Zurker - You can be a co-owner and an investor of the Social Network

Zurker is a new and unique type of social media. You all must have been familiar with Facebook, twiter, google + and other popular social networks, right? They were a great way of keeping in touch with friends and making new ones.

Eventually, concerns started to mount, and new social network applications started popping up, promising users that they would "own their data."

At Zurker, You don't just own your data, you own the network. Every Zurker user can very easily become a co-owner (future shareholder) of Zurker. you are a co-owner and an investor.

Why is this cool? You must be totally hooked and convinced. Here's why:

1. Open and Responsive

I posed lots of questions to the co-founders and I was amazed by how quickly and openly they responded. They treated me as a friend and colleague and welcomed searching questions. This was a clincher for me. Imagine trying to ask Mark Z difficult questions about Facebook! By the way, the User ID's of the co-founders are Cineman and Berzurker and once you have joined Zurker you can just post questions on their walls. I found that I got full answers within a few hours.

2. Owned By Its Members

I like the idea of social media owned by its members. It certainly beats the Facebook model.

3. Members Share In The Growth And Profits

The only investment needed is a little time. Time you might otherwise have wasted making the owners of Facebook or Twitter a little richer.

4. You Have Total Control Of Your Own Privacy

You control your privacy (for every update and photo you post) through the use of zurks, tags, street & home concepts. I guess I ought to explain a bit more. A "zurk" is a bit like a Facebook "like" but it's better because it's a more neutral word. For example it somehow seems inappropriate to "like" a post about someone dying but in Zurker you would "zurk" it to highlight it was a post worth sharing.

You can associate tags with your connections on Zurker. Tags could be "Friends", "Family" or "Hubbers" or any tag you make up. Only you can see your tags, so you could tag someone as "time-waster" and they would never know (I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to use derogatory tags just yet).

Your "Street" page is where you can see all the updates posted by all you connections, but you can filter these by tag (see above). Your home page only shows updates that directly involve you and again you can filter by tag.

5. Open Books, Open Statistics, Open Bug-Reporting, Open Everything!

Zurker publishes online (via links at the bottom of every Zurker page) every cent that comes in and every cent that goes out. Membership figures and graphs are updated and displayed every hour. There is a link to report bugs and you can read any bug that has been reported and the developers' responses.

6. Unique Features

Such as Zurks, Tags, Street/Home etc. see 3, above, for more details.

7. Democratic

Members will be able to control everything by voting.

8. Development Driven By Members' Ideas

There will be an "Ideas" link where members will be able to suggest ideas and vote to select the best ideas.

9. Personal Identity and Business Identities Separate

Zurker will have a separate type of membership businesses known as "Entities". You will know whether you are connecting with a real person or a business.

10. No Advertising And (Almost) No Spam

Zurker is advert free and has a very strict anti-spam policy.

11. Responsible, Bright, Creative and Positive Members

Because all of all that Zurker has to offer it is attractive to people that think for themselves.

12. Zurker Is Fun!

Zurker is a cool name to play with and we already have Zurker slang and culture.


In other words, business as usual. If you’re competing with Facebook, business as usual doesn’t cut the mustard. You’ll need something totally fresh – a brand new, innovative approach. This is why I’m keeping an eye on a brash new startup called Zurker. These guys received no funding at all from VC’s. All their funding comes from their members who invest small amounts, typically less than $100. In exchange, the members get equity in the form of “virtual shares” or vShares.

Members can also gain vShares by referring their friends to the project, and that is pretty clever. It seems to be a mixture between Facebook and Google + but with a unique selling point: it's owned by its members! You earn shares in Zurker by referring members. You get 2 shares for each referral in the first 24 hours of your membership and one share per referral thereafter. There are separate Zurkers for each major country- so I'm a member of Zurker UK. You can also buy shares (in the UK they currently sell for £1 each). Each country has a limit of one million shares.

Zurker - You can be a co-owner and an investor of the Social Network

I would never have guessed that I would have the chance to own part of a social network that will overtake Facebook. Imagine if you had been offered the opportunity to own part of Facebook for zero cost, would you have seized the moment? You have a similar chance with Zurker right now. At the moment it's in beta and membership is by invitation only, so here's your invite:-

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Facebook, G +, Twitter does not give the shares to us, but Zurker will give the shares to you. Facebook, G+, Twitter is not pay, but Zurker will pay you. Zurker came out of private alpha testing on January 22, 2012. Even though Zurker is in beta, membership is steadily climbing. You still need an invite to get in, so . So don't delay, please use my Zurker Invitation Page  now!

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