Ever wish you could find one web site that works as a social networking site, an IM service, a way to discover new music, sell your artwork, or store files online using a web-based desktop? Yeah, neither did we, but those are just a few of the services offered by
Hurox, a site that's so jam-packed with features that it almost defies description.
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]
