Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Hurox: One social networking site that does everything
Don't get us wrong, Hurox is hardly the only company trying to control all of your online activities. Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and others would like you to use their email, IM, calendar, photo, and video sharing services. The difference is that most companies don't try to cram everything into a single URL. And there's a good reason for that. Hurox is kind of pretty, but it also seems horribly complicated.
When you first sign up for a free account, Hurox asks you a series of questions to determine whether you're more interested in things like celebrity gossip or tech news; folk music or heavy metal; reading or watching movies; and so on. Then you get a little tour that attempts to explain what you can do with the site, but it's hard to keep everything straight when you can do everything from creating and sharing personal web pages to creating an online marketplace for selling goods.
We're all for all-in-one solutions. We love programs like 8hands or Flock that let you manage multiple social networking services at once. And Digsby does an awesome job of acting as n email notifier, chat client, and social networking monitor. But Hurox is something else altogether. It doesn't let you manage activities you were already doing online. It asks you to join yet another social network. Sure, it's a social network that's full of features, but it has so many features that we can't help but think of Hurox as a kitchen sink site. It seems like the company just added every feature they could think of without taking the time to make sure that they all make sense together.
[via Mashable]
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Pete said 8:20AM on 2-12-2008
Another social network, ha?
Well, I wish them good luck though I can't help but thinking that a reasonable person won't join another social network. There's way too many as it is.
8hands is a great app to deal with the social overload. That's the one I chose for my social management.digsby sounds nice too, but it's still has lots of bugs and currently it's unusable.
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Zhoubobby said 5:15PM on 2-12-2008
Thing about Hurox like this...
If you are a small local garage band trying to sell your music online, you are probably faced with quite a few obstacles.
- How do I create a website?
- How do I accept credit cards?
- How do I get people to buy my music?
Hurox is an attempt by 5 people working on their own free time to solve all of the above.
This is why we created a drag and drop website building tool, a desktop to manage all of your content (upload some stuff and give it a try, it is actually pretty easy to manage). A shopping cart system built in to accept credit cards, and a recommendation system to help you get the word out for your music.
Now Hurox is at a point where we need funding to really polish up the site and to address alot of the issues you have pointed out. The interface needs to be simplified and everything basically needed to be made easier.
Keep checking back on us, we will work hard to listen to your feedbacks and improve the site.
Thanks for the review!
Zhoubobby
www.hurox.com
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