Comments on: Zoopy: South Africa’s First Video/Photo Sharing Social Network http://pulse2.com/2007/03/11/zoopy-south-africas-first-videophoto-sharing-social-network/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:47:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Zoopy Blog » Blog Archive » (x) + you + Zoopy = 2007. Find (x). http://pulse2.com/2007/03/11/zoopy-south-africas-first-videophoto-sharing-social-network/comment-page-1/#comment-10868 Zoopy Blog » Blog Archive » (x) + you + Zoopy = 2007. Find (x). Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:44:33 +0000 http://pulse2.com/2007/03/11/zoopy-south-africas-first-videophoto-sharing-social-network/#comment-10868 [...] feedback until now. We survived a couple of critical reviews, made some improvements, got a bit of international Web 2.0 attention and dusted ourselves off. At least, and at last, we were live and [...] [...] feedback until now. We survived a couple of critical reviews, made some improvements, got a bit of international Web 2.0 attention and dusted ourselves off. At least, and at last, we were live and [...]

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]]> By: Jason http://pulse2.com/2007/03/11/zoopy-south-africas-first-videophoto-sharing-social-network/comment-page-1/#comment-8127 Jason Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:24:45 +0000 http://pulse2.com/2007/03/11/zoopy-south-africas-first-videophoto-sharing-social-network/#comment-8127 Hi Amit! Fantastic review - by far on the most in-depth we've received and very, very welcome. We're still in Live Beta stages, which as you know means that there are some kinks to iron out here and there - but the response from users and industry colleagues has been very encouraging. To answer your question regarding relevancy and our points of differentiation, the immediate distinguishing characteristic of Zoopy is that it houses South African content AND content that interests South Africans. Rather than trawl through millions/billions/gazillions of YouTube videos to find something that's relevant to us, South Africans (wherever they are in the world) now have a single hub where videos and photos are ALL relevant. If something happens locally that makes local news at 10am, a video could be up on Zoopy before the news stations have a chance to broadcast on the 6pm TV news, for example. But it doesn't end there. Our competitions are local, meaning that unlike YouTube, South Africans CAN enter to win our prizes, and the winners could even come from your hometown -- not Canada or Japan or Idaho in the USA. BUT even having said all that, we're not stopping at differentiating ourselves purely by virtue of us hosting regional content. We have a feature list that will be rolling out over the next few weeks and months, and some of the items on it aren't even happening at the social networking giants like YouTube and MySpace. They're 100% unique and we believe this will provide even greater value to our members, beyond simply sharing the same nationality. Please have a look through our blog at http://blog.zoopy.com, particularly at this post: http://blog.zoopy.com/?p=25. All the best - and thanks again for the constructive, very welcome review :) Jason Zoopy - Share it with someone! Hi Amit!

Fantastic review – by far on the most in-depth we’ve received and very, very welcome.

We’re still in Live Beta stages, which as you know means that there are some kinks to iron out here and there – but the response from users and industry colleagues has been very encouraging.

To answer your question regarding relevancy and our points of differentiation, the immediate distinguishing characteristic of Zoopy is that it houses South African content AND content that interests South Africans. Rather than trawl through millions/billions/gazillions of YouTube videos to find something that’s relevant to us, South Africans (wherever they are in the world) now have a single hub where videos and photos are ALL relevant. If something happens locally that makes local news at 10am, a video could be up on Zoopy before the news stations have a chance to broadcast on the 6pm TV news, for example.

But it doesn’t end there. Our competitions are local, meaning that unlike YouTube, South Africans CAN enter to win our prizes, and the winners could even come from your hometown — not Canada or Japan or Idaho in the USA.

BUT even having said all that, we’re not stopping at differentiating ourselves purely by virtue of us hosting regional content. We have a feature list that will be rolling out over the next few weeks and months, and some of the items on it aren’t even happening at the social networking giants like YouTube and MySpace. They’re 100% unique and we believe this will provide even greater value to our members, beyond simply sharing the same nationality.

Please have a look through our blog at http://blog.zoopy.com, particularly at this post: http://blog.zoopy.com/?p=25.

All the best – and thanks again for the constructive, very welcome review :)

Jason
Zoopy – Share it with someone!

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