Online communities have since been known as tribes. Thanks to Seth Godin’s famous book of the same title, it’s forced us to think of our online networks and communities in a unique light. Much like primitive tribes of earlier times, we’ve now formed digital tribes where we’ve found comfort in connections with people of similar interests, habits, hobbies, and histories. The tribes we belong to have a simple connectivity of communication that we long to maintain, enter Gigatribes.
The concept of communicating with your tribe is easy to see in networks such as Twitter, Facebook, or even LinkedIn. What if you wanted to share files in a local depository where all of your tribe can have access to? Or what if you only wanted to share with certain members of the tribe? Gigatribes allows you to build your community, much like any other social network, but now you’re able to share large files seamlessly and with out problems.
But there is a problem. How is this different from DropBox? Or maybe ZumoBox? Or any other of the hundreds of file sharing sites. In looking at the application itself I didn’t see anything that really stood out to make this the go to community file sharing network out there.
What it’ll come down to is comfort level and ease of use for your needs. DropBox and Zumobox both have mobile apps that give you access to your files on the go. No such app was found for Gigatribes which already puts this network at a disadvantage.
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I have never really understood Linkedin and what they are ultimately trying to achieve. They are a business social network, in which is great for keeping in contact with your business associates and find new potential associates. However, apart from the basic social network and job board, they still don’t seem to have any great features that will keep users going back to the site. I tend to only venture to Linkedin when someone either sends me a message or adds me as a friend, apart from that it doesn’t do anything for me at all! Can someone enlighten me on what other key features they have and what they are ultimately trying to achieve with the site?
Company Name: Workology
Type of Industry: Career and Recruitment
Based: UK
Founded: April 2008
Competitors: LinkedIn and Xing
About: Workology is a peer-to-peer website that enables professionals to control the way they work.
There is no such thing as a job for life; freelancers, portfolio careerists, working parents, start-up entrepreneurs and retirees still feel they’ve got value to add and want to create and realize their way of working. They currently do this by relying mainly on the referral economy or the fragmented recruitment industries and that is hugely inefficient.
Workology simplifies the current process by offering people a free platform to create work opportunities and gain support to suit their individual work styles.
Crenk Thoughts: Everyone wants to control their own working style, but wanting alone is not sufficient. Because we all know that it’s simply not possible for some professionals to work flexible times e.g teachers, doctors, firefighters etc. Therefore, Workology is suitable for those professionals that have been listed above (i.e freelancers, entrepreneurs, retirees etc) – professionals that if they work flexible times, their productivity won’t be affected. In contrast, their productivity might even increase.
Also, Workology will have a tough time competing with niche websites like oDesk and RentACoder. Because these sites give a better marketplace for programmers and IT professionals to land a job. I also noticed that there are not many established companies posting job opennings in Workology. In that sense, I think Xing is doing a great job of attracting big players like Dell, Samsung, Sedo, Hitachi, 1&1 etc.
So, will Workology be around after 5 years? If they want to, then they have a lot of work to do…
