Increasingly Bizarre Behaviour from Yuku
Well I'm fairly gobsmacked at some weird and wonderful developments over on Yuku.
For his latest update, ezboard, Inc.'s CEO has decided to update his Yuku 'blorum' instead of his WordPress blog, presumably to stop me from pointing out an apparent lack of faith in his own product.
Mind you, that lack of faith is probably well-founded given that some of the hyperlinks in his latest 'blorum' update don't actually work, having been broken up by Yuku itself.
Anyway, he points out that they've been really quiet for the last six weeks - I began to fear they might have simply run out of money - but that they've been beavering away on the froth (the user profiles) whilst seemingly ignoring the platform itself. He actually says:
"...the core engine has been extensively revised to be faster and more flexible and ezboard users can now import their accounts with the click of a button."
Well looking at the first of those, I haven't seen any improvements in speed: Yuku still crawls loading a 'page' or the elements that make up a page. It's a case of click and wait. Maybe that's just me, but I doubt it.
The "click of a button" actually just starts the process: there are a few more clicks involved than that. On the machine I tried it from, it seemed not to have worked and I still can't actually log in from it using either Internet Explorer or Firefox. I can log in with Firefox on this machine - I assume its security level is more lax than my main PC.
But still no details of pricing for Gold boards and no mention whatsoever of how Yuku intends to share advertising revenues; the Unique Selling Point from DEMOfall.
