Connect with your friends using Zorpia

Zorpia History:

Zorpia is a social networking website to connect people around the world. Zorpia was started in 2003 with a goal of bringing people together and allowing to share their ideas and interests. The headquarters of Zorpia is based at Hong Kong, China.

Zorpia was launched by Jeffrey Ng on December, 2003. Jeffrey started Zorpia on his own from 2002 and eventually it become a global influence. Zorpia was called Photopointz initially but later renamed.

Zorpia has about 5 lakh registered users and growing fast. It receives 2 million page views per day. Zorpia has most of its user base in United States.

Zorpia development:

Zorpia started in 2003 has evolved since then. Zorpia was named Photopointz initially during 2002 year. Photopointz based on point system. The main feature of point system is to rate suggest keywords for improving photo search.

In 2003 summer, Photopointz was renamed as Zorpia. New features are added to Zorpia to turn into a social networking website.

The final version of Zorpia was released on December, 2003 to the public. Zorpia released an updated version of it named “Zorpia 2.0”. The Zorpia 2.0 includes features such as drag and drop content, customizable profile pages.

Jeffrey Ng took of the point system after several usability tests. With the help of usability tests, he added features such as skin feature and “Rate a zorpian”.

The members of Zorpia reached 3,127, 033 on July, 2006. The user base of Zorpia are mainly concentrated in USA, UK, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and Mexico.

Zorpia current usage:

Zorpia is currently used to connect with other users. Zorpia is currently ranked 4,188 by Alexa.com(as on 22 September 2009).

Zorpia offers royal membership, which allows ad-free profile, extra profile options and unlimited messaging. The royal membership costs are $8.85 per 3 months, $13.95 for 6 months and $17.95 for one year. The privacy options allow you to set to whom your profile should be accessible. Privacy option can also be applied for your photo album and video collections.

Zorpia future benefits:

Zorpia released recently its re designed user interface “Zorpia 2.0”. The latest version includes features such as draging and drop content and more customizable profiles.

The future releases of Zorpia can include:

1. New Profile section

2. More powerful Zorpian search engine.

3. Premium membership.

4. Group feature.

Zorpia benefits to user:

The main goal of Zorpia is to bring together users from all over the world. Zorpia also allows them to share their ideas and interests.

The main features offered to Zorpians (user of Zorpia) are:

1. Photo album.

2. An Online journal or blog.

3. Social networking.

4. Discussion forums.

5. User groups.

Zorpia offers users unlimited storage for photos. The popular photo album categories include:

1. Personel.

2. Art.

3. Celebrities.

4. Comics.

5. Entertainment.

Through Zorpia companies can market their product/service by using advertisments to reach the target audience.

Zorpia offers a feature called “Rate a Zorpian”, which encourages Zorpians to cast vote to randomly selected photos from other Zorpians.Rate a Zorpian has become so famous to become a most active feature on Zorpia.

Zorpians can receive email notifications through subscription. Zorpia provides free email notifications about their profile, photo album and comments from other Zorpians.

Zorpia technical explanation:

To access Zorpia you need to register. Registration needs to provide user name, first name, last name, password and email.

Zorpia offers “Express Sign Up”, which enables you to directly sign up with your Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL account. You need to confirm your account by clicking on the verification link sent by Zorpia. After your account is confirmed you are taken to profile home.

You can do all task's from your profile. You can upload photos, videos, edit your account settings. Groups can be searched or browsed from the Groups button.

Your friends are listed under the “My Friends” section on the profile page you can click on your friend profile image to navigate to his page.

“Guestbook” allows you to post a comment to your friend.You need to provide a subject and body for this.Zorpia allows you to send a private message to a friend through “Send Private Message” button on your friends home page.

Zorpia worldwide usage:

The members of Zorpia reached 3,127, 033 on July, 2006. The user base of Zorpia are mainly concentrated in USA, UK, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and Mexico.

Zorpia receives more than 2.5 million page views per day. As Zorpia does not limit on the amount of photos you upload, it has 9.5 million stored and 20,000 are added daily.

Majority of Zorpians are in the age group of 15 years to 25 years.

Content by Mark Anderson, www.websites4results.com.au