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I was given an invite to Wallop and wanted to see if anyone here would like to join... if so, drop me a Whisper with the e-mail address i should send the invite to.

What is Wallop?
Visit www.wallop.com

From their site:
Wallop is the exclusive on-line social experience where it's easy to be yourself and connect with the friends you choose. Wallop makes it easy for you to customize your online environment and share stories and media with friends, without having to learn any programming and without any banner advertising.

For Flash Developers:
Wallop offers an innovative business model that enables Flash designers and developers to create and publish interactive and animated content (called "Mods"). Mods are purchased by Wallop members who use them to customize and express themselves on their personal profiles.

From Wikipedia:
Wallop is an Internet social network service that originated from Microsoft Research. The company itself however is a separate startup entity.

Business Model
Created by Microsoft, Wallop is backed by $13 million from Microsoft and venture capitalists including Norwest Venture Partners, Bay Partners and Consor Capital.

Wallop stated that they will allow users to purchase software through their social networking site from an online shopping marketplace, the mods will allow you to add characters, graphics, games, backgrounds, and more to put on their “personal profiles.” The ad ons will cost anywhere from $0.99 to $4.00 a pop said Karl Jacob the CEO of Wallop. Oddly, users will only be able to sign up for the site if an existing member invites them (an approach that Facebook abandoned in October 2006). The majority of the website is currently rendered in Adobe Flash. Wallop is in the beta stage.

So if you want to check it out too, drop me a Whisper with the e-mail address i should send the invite to.

Posted by mrspoomp on Jul 11, 2007 in Blab | 4 comments