Yesterday the Dow was -1.63%, Nasdaq -3.10%, S&P 500 -2.09%. Pre-Market Indications point right now to around -0.5% for all three. I am glad I sold all my stocks when the Crimea crises started.
Finally! I have been looking forward to posting this on HN and I am very excited to hear your comments.
Zanda is a rating platform where you can do the following:
- Rate and review everything: items, people, places, events and more.
- You can create compares between two or more items and have the users or your friends cast their vote on an item.
- There are toplists which sort highest rated items based on all Zanda users.
- You can follow items, toplists, compares and users. All new actions around the items you follow will show up in your stream.
- You can earn badges for adding reviews, photos, ratings and many other actions you take.
- Zanda will rank you for the keywords you interact with. For example, you could be #1 in books because you comment and rate several items with the keyword “books.”
- If you do a search or check out toplists you will see items the people you follow have interacted with.
- You can see lists of trending items, compares, toplists and users.
- All items you own, have experience with, viewed, visited, listened to, etc., you can check as “Have” and they go to your achievements list
- All items you set as “Want” will go to your wishlist
Apps for iOS and Android are currently under development and are planned to launch in the near future.
Yes it is for Zanda :), I agree SEO is one of the most important things or maybe the most important thing. I keep improving and optimizing everything and I am working on it all the time.
Thanks, I started already playing around with Facebook ads a while ago and I really do like it but I noticed that some of the users do create accounts they don't interact too much with the site or visit just one page. Of course this could be also a problem with the site and not the traffic. Since the tests I did a while ago I have improved the site a lot and I will start soon testing this more heavily again.
I use Google Analytics and I was also trying out clicktale but couldn't get much value from it using their free plan, they don't offer a full trial or something like that, you would need to buy it for a full year to test it and I think it is too expensive, at least for me...
We are working on a social rating platform where users can add items (things, products, people, companies, events, abstract things, places...no limits), review the items, rate them and create compares between multiple products so other users can vote. Those users can follow other users, items and compares and if there are new interactions with those items or by the users they follow it will show up in their stream. They gain experience points with every action they take for certain items, they get badges and rankings for certain keywords, so for example the person doing the most ratings, reviews etc. for video games will be the #1 on the video games list. Users can select that they “have” certain items which then go into their achievements list or “want” and they go into your wish list. When you search the site you can see if you friends (people you follow) have interacted with items in the search results.
We have the chicken and egg problem, we need a lot of content so the site will be useful to the users and to have a lot of content we need many users. Imagine if you had 30 friends on our site who all reviewed and rated items or you could see your wife’s or girlfriends wish list the site would be very useful to you as you know all those people but if you are the first on the site you don’t see the point why you should add items or rate or review….
I am aware that every user generated content site has the same problem but I believe the concept is good (or maybe I hope?) and I am wondering how long it will take to users understand the full idea behind the site and the concept.