iYomu
Stuff reports on the latest social networking site, with the difference being this one is designed for adults! iYomu.com launches in a few weeks. The name stands for I, you, me and us.
I got a preview of the site last week and was impressed with the look and feel of it. It presents some information graphically in a pretty neat way. The feature that most appealed to me was the 1 GB of storage space which operates almost as a virtual hard drive. One can just drag your “my documents” icon over to back it up. I can see that being pretty popular, especially in areas without data caps.
One can check the beta site out for yourself with the password being iyomubeta.
Mauricio on Geekzone has also blogged on it. NBR profiles it also as does Peter Griffin in the Herald.
I am always impressed with entrepeneurs who are willing to take a risk and invest their money in a good concept or idea. It is thanks to them we live in a dynamic world – people like Rod Drury with Xero, and the people behind iYomu. Of course not all succeed (and there is no reward without risk) but innovation is how we move forward.
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 am
David, who is involved in this business?
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:08 am
scrub that, I did a company search.
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:16 am
It is in most of the articles I linked to.
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:35 am
Oh, unfortunately I rarely click through David as the info you provide is normally all relevant details
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Oddly, “yomu” means “read” in Japanese.
August 2nd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
I’ve signed up (hardly a recommendation). Looks good and the idea is certainly worthwhile.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:53 am
You can do that virtual HDD feature on Facebook too… just add the Files application
August 3rd, 2007 at 8:17 am
I have signed up. Think its a great concept and a really cool site. Always like to get behind NZ business as well.
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:56 am
Your NBR link links through to geekzone
August 5th, 2007 at 11:52 am
I’ve signed up and enjoy using it. Can’t wait for its full launch this month.
August 5th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Great to see a quality alternative for people who want social networking without the hassle of Myspace, Bebo etc. It also has some cool concepts such as the “vault”.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Hmmm funny to note that kiwifiedpom has put the same comment on a lot of other blogs… Is there a student sitting at an iyomu desk getting paid $10/hr to post? Or maybe that’s part of the PR strategy? Or, to go one step further – isn’t founder David a NZ based Brit?
August 15th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Wooah people are a touch cynical… Afraid I am only one iyomubeta user who really liked the site and wished to spread the word about it. The conclusions based on a couple of copied comments on near identical blogs…