Hurox - The NEXT BIG Wave in Social Networking ?
May 21st, 2008 Posted in Social Application
by Prashant Sharma
by Prashant Sharma
What’s that
Today,majority of the web-addicts can be found twittering,blogging or roaming in their social networks(Facebook,Myspace,Orkut etc) and most of them find it refreshing as well.
But the need of introducing novelty in conventional social networking is ever demanding.
Hurox(pronounced as “who rocks”) , promises to fulfill this need.It assures to be not-so-average social network,inculcating many features and utilities into your “New Social Network”.
With their tagline as… “Create,Share and Sell” ,Hurox pitches it’s ability to blend a usual social network with creative and profitable aspects associated with every user.
What it offers…
- Customize your profile in appearance to the maximum extent possible
- Create web pages,using In-built easy-to-use tools within your account
- Earn money for whatever you create.It may be a webpage, an image,video etc which you created and got sold as well
- Explore your network with all the usual tools provided in major networking sites
Why it can be the NEXT BIG THING !
- Utility inclusion - Utilities like twitter,blog and related stuff are packed within Hurox to let all your friends know your current status and blogs created, within Hurox only to improve your visibility.
- Money incentives - No social network,till date facilitates the users to earn from from what they may create.This clearly adds to the pros of Hurox
- Vitrified UI - The user interface has been given a prior attention by Hurox team as the sensible and sophisticated application of ajax and javascript makes it a hassle-free interface to experience
- Novelty - It’s for the first time that a social network has been conceptualised to let its users sell their creativity by the use of easy-to-use tools and in-built money transaction system
Why it may prove to be a Web Struggler !
- Lack of practical approach - The tools that Hurox provides are good to have fun with but can hardly produce something really extravagent.In a situation where napster is forced to sell its music for $0.99 per song,it seems impractical for a user to buy a funny webpage for even few cents
- Saturation - Talk about a social network and here comes the answer : Myspace,Facebook,Orkut…what else ? .The major problem is that social networks take time to build and majority of the web users are bound to the mentioned sites in some way or the other.It’s a hard-rock task to create an identity in this sector
- Too sophisticated - Different people,different opinions.A tech-savvy user may take the involved technology and overall experience as a positive point but a conventional(still in majority) web user may find it a bit uncomfortable,with loads of unnecessary technology involved in it.
