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pogopuggie.zoints.com — Social networks and "MySpace Killers" are a dime a dozen these days. This one (Zoints) has grabbed my attention. I'd describe it as an amalgam of Windows Live, Netvibes, and MySpace. And the most interesting aspect is they are integrating with dozens of online forums like the women's forum I am a member of. A nice profile (not mine).

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AZhitman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Solid - Good stuff!
- szelij, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Interesting. Most of the Diggs/comments were done an hour or so after the story was posted. Amongst the diggers there were alot of "virgin diggers", i.e they've digged only one story and this was it...there were also others that did digg more than one but the number that they've dugg is extremely small.
  
  To add to it, the comments were mostly done close to the same time...
  
  A coincidence? I don't think so. Marking this as spam.
Phrost, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I'm using Zoints on my sites/forums, and it works great.
iammzac, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I joined Zoints a few weeks ago and it was weird to find this on Digg! It's really cool too, check mine out! http://babar.zoints.com
mtgmaster, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Looks pretty cool.
monktallica, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Cool
Kristined, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I'll have to check it out. Looks cool.
TidusAlmasty, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Meh, I think I may have to join. Looks kind of interesting...
What do you people think, should I?
ronoxQ, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Yeah, it might be worth a try.
DaiTengu, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I despise Myspace. I've never had a seething hate like this for any website, or any online service really since AOL. Zoints is different though.

I'm a member of a bunch of Internet forums and it's really kind of nice to be able to have a central profile system. Should this take off, I won't have to write my interests out for every forum I join, I won't need to upload pictures and hope that the host or the forum allows me to link to them, and the best part is that I have a central place with a list of all the forums I'm registered at.

New Web 2.0 startups are a dime a dozen these days, but I honestly think Zoints is going to be quite different.
whereswaldo1234, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Doesn't look that much different than myspace, and lacks the huge userbase. But I tryed it out and I like the system they use for designing profiles. I give it like a 7/10. Hopefully they can make it better.
silentscope, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I like the drag and drop thingie
shirini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5spam
BostonLWS, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I just signed up after I saw this article and I must say I like it. The way of customizing profiles allows a lot more creativity and originality than does any other site I've run into. 8/10 simply because of the lack of member base, though it does look like its growing substantially daily. Great potential here.
JC4P, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3marked as spam
Volkov137, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Hm. I guess I'm gonna have to check this out.
hygraed, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2WTF? Basically everyone who said they like Zoints got dugg down. I smell *****.
Zoints rocks.
Go ahead, digg me down, you ***** sheep.
viperman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What timing, my friend and I have an go going joke about this. I emailed it to him with the title "competitor with Del Taco"
friggybum, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I've used zoints from pretty early on. As far as I know it's still very much a work in progress. The staff seem committed to making it better daily, and it's already a useful site.

Three things I really dig:

1) The focus on enabling community, namely forums. I've enjoyed browsing a number of specific forums over the years and I think the idea of a centralized profile is a groovy ass idea. I also like the idea of discovering other communities

2) Embedding youtube and video.google videos, and their willingness to work with other APIs (I've heard they're working on neat flickr features)

3) As silly as this may seem, my third favorite thing is the ability to move the ad block wherever I want. For those who haven't used Zoints, it has news.google.com-like AJAX sections that allow you drag and drop placement of your content 'blocks'. Included among them is the non-intrusive but required (Google) ad block. I like being able to move this around because some layouts it looks better on top and others not. Just the freedom is nice.

The userbase is on the smallish side but one must keep in mind they're still developing it and working out the kinks, and they haven't tried advertising it much. As slick as it is, I think the userbase will grow easily and organically but that's just my $.02, so we'll see!
pogopuggie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I'm... just gobsmacked. Using my profile to give an example of Zoints.com's capabilities is just, in my opinion, selling it short.

I was impressed immediately by this place. It's steadily growing, better features and bigger options. You can do just about anything with this site. I can keep everything in one place. My journals, my forums, my photos... It's less a blog site than a community site- I log in almost every day now.

I'd had a MySpace for a long while and just found it impersonal, unfriendly and limited. I've never been able to get into a "blog site" and I really thought it'd be one of those things I'd sign up for and forget about, but once I'd signed in it just clicked for me. Greeted immediately, help at every corner, the most friendly and open atmosphere, and 25megs of free image space is hard to stay away from.

For anyone thinking about it, or curious, there are no obligations and no harm in checking it out just for the fun of it.
pogopuggie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Hello Mister McBride,

I don't disagree that it could easily be interpreted as spam,
but I recognise a few of these members and they're real and different indivuduals who in all honestly I expect will continue to be active on this site.

I fail to see how any post that would encourage interactive memberships to your own site could be slotted into the category of spam. Perhaps the mentioning of this site has been a valuable tool in propogating an awareness of your own site in forums and pages (and reaching people) whom would otherwise be unaware of it?

All I want to say is that there are alot of people excited about this "Rising young Star" of a site.
We (virgin diggers brought to you by the =spammer=) are excited enough about something new to want to yell it out. Really, it's non-profit standing and breaking through quite a few barriers in the way we look at "blog sites" -or the way I have.
I'm not staff, I don't get paid to talk it up, I just wanted to give my opinion and feedback.
I honestly wouldn't have registered with you had I not intended to have an on-going and active membership (...which I still do, so I hope this post doesn't get me into hot water :S )

I strangely fathomed that it was one of the purposes of your site to share and discuss that kind of information that intrigues, explores, and excites. I hope I'm not wrong and that you might reconsider. Maybe write your own 'less spammy' article?
TidusAlmasty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I don't like the fact that I was negatively dugg just for saying I may join. Jeez that is unfair. I decided not to join though....I probably will next week though.
- JC4P, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You were negativley marked because it's obvious that all the commnets on here are just spam.
- TonyEberly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tidus, I apologize for your inconvenience but you can't use digg as a way to spam links for your social networking site. We're happy with myspace and facebook.
averagedesi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Woohoo! I joined zoints... and yeah, its actually pretty cool. for those of you who are going to be like "oh look he's spamming lets vote him negative lolol," you can go screw yourself. In all seriousnes, a friend of mine told me about how he saw zoints on digg, so I showed some of my other zoints friends, and one other guy who I was talking to about zoints just a a few minutes earlier. Nobody ever told anyone to digg it positively or anything. You guys need to lighten up, jeez.
- JC4P, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3LIES
  you're friend didn't tell you nothing, and you didin't just join zoints. Look at your profile, you dugg a story about zoints 122 days ago, and you've dugg the story about profilepixies that most of the other new users that have dugg / commented this have dugg.
  
  I smell spam.
- TonyEberly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2jc4p is right, this kid is pure garbage. he just wants people to join his site. undigg while you still can, and be sure to spam his site
- hygraed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"undigg while you still can, and be sure to spam his site"
  
  Hey! This is spam! We don't like spam, so let's do EXACTLY THE SAME THING in retaliation! We're eight years old!
averagedesi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Yeah, zoints was on digg again, so I came and saw it and dugg it again, because I like zoints. I don't get how this is spam nor do I get how this is unethical in any way shape or form. I don't really remember about the profile pixies, but hey, if I post something on my AIM or something about how zoints is on digg, and people come to it, its probably going to be the same people. People who like certain things go to things that have to do with things thye like. ya dig?
- JC4P, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg articles are not made to be linked to people telling them to digg it. Digg articles are made, so that if digg users see it on the site, and like it, they can digg it.
ronoxQ, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0JC4P-

I Dugg Zoints because I like it, and because I think it's worth promoting. Shouldn't that be enough for you?
DaiTengu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I've been a member of Digg for quite awhile. I don't appreciate being dugg down just for saying I like something brings something new to the table.

To be labeled as Spam, this particular article would have had to have been submitted by a person who worked for the company, correct?

How is a group of people digging a story like this who, quite possibly may be Zoints users and are probably quite thrilled with it any different than a bunch of people clicking a link on someone's blog that says "Digg this!"

It's not.
- TonyEberly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If your not happy with the way this site works then leave. No one is keeping you here. No one wants to hear your non-sense about the next myspace or whatever. Carry on.
  
  So long, farewell, Au'voir, auf wiedersehn,
  I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne
  So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehn, goodbye,
  I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye,
  Good bye
- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1PSA: complaining about being dugg down is a good way to get dugg down
dressedindecay, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0To everyone tha'ts complaining about spam- pull your ***** tampon out of your ass.

It's just a website, who cares.

Maybe you should try going outside once in a while.
renzodesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2myspace :) but nastier looking (if possible)
yea im a myspace whore :)
http://www.myspace.com/advertiseyourlies
TonyEberly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"he sounds smart, uses a thesaurus, so lets digg"

this message brought to you by your uneducated, pretentious groupthinkers @ digg

btw, by modding this down, it only ensures people will read. pretentious kids.
itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is stupid , for one i cannot see what it looks like without having an account. another, the shiny flashyness is web 2.0 trash. the light text on a dark background is faux pas.

just a wannabe, show me something new.
- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ok, i checked out abit more. deviant art is better designed. i feel cramped.
- mtgmaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You do know thats someones profile dont you? They dont all look like that.
- pogopuggie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha! thanks, I'll bare that in mind when I revamp my profile spash page.
BostonLWS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I also have been a member of Digg for awhile and I guess my post hasn;'t been dugg down as the others have, but I frequent here very often for the Apple news and I came across this. I liked it because it was very OSXish, so to say. Sleek, easy, and very user intuitive.
whereswaldo1234, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I understand why other members have been negavoted, but why have I?

My post..."Doesn't look that much different than myspace, and lacks the huge userbase. But I tried it out and I like the system they use for designing profiles. I give it like a 7/10. Hopefully they can make it better.
whereswaldo1234, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0:"one i cannot see what it looks like without having an account."

You can't just click on the link?
John5618, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is spam: http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=184909&page=1

Very unethical to do such a thing.
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