Its been a interesting time for us here at Kwanzoo. In early 2008 we were busy building a website for Entertainment Fans to come play trivia games on Kwanzoo.com. We then built out Kwanzoo quiz widgets. We experimented with Kwanzoo Gadgets on iGoogle, Kwanzoo widgets on WidgetBox.
The idea was to give our users an easy way to take our quizzes with them, no matter where they wanted to be, on their personal Blog, their Facebook page, Myspace profile, and so on.
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We’ve told you about what Kwanzoo is doing with WhatTheyPlay and Glam Media. Let’s take a look at what we’re doing with web-based instant communications company Meebo.com.
Meebo lets people IM from a web browser, supporting everything from the standard AOL Instant Messenger and Google Talk to Jabber and ICQ. The Meebo leaderboard ad unit runs at the bottom of the IM window.
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Today is an exciting day for all of us at Kwanzoo. Last November, we opened our site. We’re thrilled that many of you have already played our movie and TV trivia games. Watching you climb the ranks, gain points and win gear just for playing is better than any reality show. Well, we’ve just given you one more reason to stay and play or to invite your friends. We just went live with our new video game trivia channel!
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Hello Everyone! Thank you for being a part of the Kwanzoo community. As we begin 2008, it’s time for us to look back at the year that was, and peek ahead at what’s coming soon.
Kwanzoo 2007 Milestones
October 2007 - Private Beta. 3000 movie & TV questions
November 2007 - Public Beta. “Free-to-Play” with no sign-up required. We know you love this!
December 2007 - Nearly 3000 members; 5000 movie & TV questions
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As we keep building the site, we hear about so many interesting ways that you all Kwanzoo! Well, we know we are not a “verb” yet (like “I googled you this morning!”), but what’s to stop us from dreaming big, right?
To Kwanzoo (v) : to play trivia by yourself or with friends, while having fun, chilling out.
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It’s the weekend, and we wanted to share a few of the details on how Search works as you play social trivia games on Kwanzoo. You’ve probably seen the Search box right on top. Kwanzoo lets you search on all of the categories that we support, viz: movie, TV show, actor, actress, director, character and other. Search will pull results for you for all trivia topics that contain the text that you type in. Try typing “Frat” and you will get: Frat Pack and Lothney “Sloth” Fratelli!
We all sometimes mis-spell the word or topic name we want to search on. Try typing Caribean instead of Caribbean in the search box (say you want to play on Pirates of the Caribbean). Surprise! The search comes back with the correct results! This works on Kwanzoo as we have built in support for Aliases.
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We are delighted that we are seeing so many new Players coming onto Kwanzoo! Welcome! We are now starting a new series of posts, where we hope to share with all of you a little bit of the design of the site. Let’s first talk about Browse on Kwanzoo.
Our first trivia channel covers movie and TV trivia. We wracked our brains and came up with the following categories for browsing the movie & TV channel:
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Every so often we hear something from you guys that gives us that extra boost! It is what helps us wake up every morning, and go back to building the kind of social trivia site we believe you would want to be on!
Here are some of the comments we’ve picked out that caught our eye!
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When we first started working on Kwanzoo, we visited a whole lot of trivia sites out there. We still do. There are some good ones, to be sure. But the better ones we’ve seen do not allow users to submit content into their trivia game. And the ones that do allow user-submitted content have at least some of the following issues:
Give me 10 questions on 1 topic. Or don’t give me any questions at all!
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Update: Nominations are closed as of Dec 12th 2007 midnight PST. Thank you all for your support!
In the startup world, something new came along today. We had Techcrunch, GigaOm, Read/Write Web and VentureBeat announce that they were seeking nominations for their new Crunchies Awards. They are looking for the best startups from around the world. There are several nominee categories. While we do not know what exactly they are looking for, the one award we would love to get is their Best time sink site award!
And the reason is simple. If you guys feel we are worthy of this award, we are doing our job! If we really had our way, we would be quite happy waking up every day, clicking over to Kwanzoo, and seeing our Leaderboard movin’ and shakin’. See, that would tell us that you guys love the site, and want to keep coming back!
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