Comments on: Zoints: Forums meet Social Networks http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/ Thought streams on the future of tech and media Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:27:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: xztheericzx http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-300 xztheericzx Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:59:43 +0000 http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/#comment-300 i'm eric. joining a couple boards and looking forward to participating. hehe unless i get too distracted! eric i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!

eric

]]> By: KenMarshall http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-299 KenMarshall Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:55:49 +0000 http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/#comment-299 Thanks for helping Thanks for helping

]]> By: MichaelDZH http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-298 MichaelDZH Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:37:39 +0000 http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/#comment-298 Hi. I find forum about work and travel. Where can I to see it? Best Regards, Michael. Hi. I find forum about work and travel. Where can I to see it?
Best Regards, Michael.

]]> By: Sai http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Sai Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:23:21 +0000 http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/#comment-297 SportsGist is a social networking community for athletes and sports fans. <a href="http://www.sportsgist.com/unlog.php?utSportsGist m_source=sai&utm_medium=x&utm_campaign=partners">www.sportsgist.com</a> is the the Internet's Leading Sports Social Network an online community that encourages Professional athletes to interact with other athletes, Sports enthusiasts, Executives as well as those aspiring for a career in the Sports industry & Fans at all levels; providing a platform to network and communicate through videos, photos and blogs. SportsGist is a social networking community for athletes and sports fans.

http://www.sportsgist.com
is the the Internet’s Leading Sports Social Network an online community that
encourages Professional athletes to interact with other athletes, Sports
enthusiasts, Executives as well as those aspiring for a career in the Sports
industry & Fans at all levels; providing a platform to network and communicate
through videos, photos and blogs.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Daniel Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:03:10 +0000 http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/#comment-296 "This leads me to the biggest issue that I see for Zoints. MySpace (and other social networks) can easily add a “Forum/Other Communities” affiliation type to user profiles like they currently do with fraternities, clubs, companies, etc. Users could then add which forums they’re a member of and users could then search profiles by forum membership. Voila! You’ve pretty much got Zoints." This not true because Zoints has many other features directed specifically towards communities that MySpace or any other social network will not have. One obvious one is tagging. There are so many things that will help with this it's not even possible to list. The main one being "interest driven traffic" I think Zoints has a lot of potential due to the fact that it's connected to forums, and that the profile system relies on interest driven traffic. Very powerful traffic indeed :) “This leads me to the biggest issue that I see for Zoints. MySpace (and other social networks) can easily add a “Forum/Other Communities” affiliation type to user profiles like they currently do with fraternities, clubs, companies, etc. Users could then add which forums they’re a member of and users could then search profiles by forum membership. Voila! You’ve pretty much got Zoints.”

This not true because Zoints has many other features directed specifically towards communities that MySpace or any other social network will not have.

One obvious one is tagging. There are so many things that will help with this it’s not even possible to list. The main one being “interest driven traffic”

I think Zoints has a lot of potential due to the fact that it’s connected to forums, and that the profile system relies on interest driven traffic.

Very powerful traffic indeed :)

]]> By: Kevin Chou http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-295 Kevin Chou Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:03:55 +0000 http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/#comment-295 Obviously near and dear to my heart. Very good analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the Zoints service! Obviously near and dear to my heart. Very good analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the Zoints service!

]]> By: Daniel Nerezov http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Daniel Nerezov Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:58:35 +0000 http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2006/09/06/zoints-forums-meet-social-networks/#comment-294 great post! rishi, that's some killer analysis. great post!

rishi, that’s some killer analysis.

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