The latest social networking websites news: UNTHINK, nearly four years in the making, announces its imminent launch just as the public’s discontent with Facebook reaches an all-time high and Google enters the social media arena with Google+, which experts have described as a rushed-to-market Facebook copycat.
UNTHINK (www.unthink.com) is not another social network; it is a social revolution. UNTHINK was built ON purpose – WITH purpose. It is the product of the foresight of its founders, who in 2007 realized that social networks were headed for a dead end because of their arrogant behavior and total disregard of users, and that Facebook would evolve into what some call a cyber-dictatorship.
Now, the social networking websites news is this: just as the whole world is coming to realize the problems plaguing current social media – such as compromised privacy, endless redesigns, profiles turned into commercial junkyards, ever-changing terms of use – and the inherent danger of these dictatorial structures to our freedoms, UNTHINK is preparing to launch the solution.
“I realized this was a revolution waiting to happen,” says UNTHINK founder and CEO Natasha Dedis. “Here was a huge market with most of its growth still ahead of it; with the market leader taking advantage of users through an outdated and exploitive business model; a market built on the business ‘logic’ that user profiles, relationships and conversations are CONTENT to be exploited for profit.”
Realization to solution takes years, as former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo recently explained. He stated that it would take two years for 250 people to build a Facebook competitor and, by then, Facebook and the whole market would be completely different. Therefore, for Facebook to be challenged, it would take the foresight to anticipate future market needs and the ability to visualize a solution and bring together all the necessary resources to make it happen. But more than that, it would take a team so passionate about setting things right that they would be willing to face any risk and go up against insurmountable odds to give people a CHOICE.
And that’s exactly what UNTHINK did.
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UNTHINK Corporation is a technology company based in Tampa, Fla. It is also the parent company of two wholly-owned subsidiaries: UNTHINK Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a development center based in New Delhi, India, and UNTHINK International Ltd., an international delivery center in Dublin, Ireland. UNTHINK is not a start-up. It was founded after a year of research on April 22, 2008 by successful entrepreneurs with experience in re-inventing markets, and is supported by a dedicated team of more than 100 cutting-edge techies and rebels.
In 2007, UNTHINK’s founders studied Facebook’s terms of service and business model and decided to research further. “We came to discover that they were baiting users by offering them a ‘free’ service and in exchange they were taking away their FREEDOM,” says UNTHINK founder and chief legal officer Spiro Verras. “Users were then subjected to endless redesigns and term changes, in effect treated as guinea pigs as Facebook tried to make money.” The UNTHINK team realized that this was a platform of control with the intention of creating a “walled garden” with the potential to undo the democratic web.
As UNTHINK prepares to launch, it invites all the Unthinkers of this world to rise and declare the emancipation of social media, paving the way for a social revolution. “We worked hard for more than three years to research people’s needs and present them with a solution that will empower them,” says Dedis. “We believe that anyone can be extraordinary; that anyone can bring the change they want to see in the world. Our mission is to emancipate social media and unleash people’s extraordinary potential. Our – not so covert – mission is to spark a social revolution. We believe in people.”
Are you an Unthinker? And would you like to lead this revolution? Go to UNTHINK.com and register.
A video just released today by UNTHINK illustrates the enthusiasm and trust Facebook users placed in Facebook when they first joined, the letdown, the problems, and calls people to action:
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
“You told us this is our world, this is our show; you set it up, invited us in. A performance for all by all. I couldn’t wait to strut my stuff, to stand out in my share of the spotlight. I couldn’t wait to tell my story! I couldn’t believe all this was free!
But I never knew that I’d be part of some damn puppet show …that you thought you could own me!
ENOUGH with your endless dictating, arrogant attitude, disrespecting me, imposing your rules on me, moving my things, jerking me with endless tricks, controlling my news feed, caging me in, making money by interrupting me, constantly spying – yes, spying on me! I’ve seen through your illusion of free.
How lame can you be?
You even called me a dumb f**k just ’cause I trusted you!
All you greedy giants fighting over my turf, yanking me around, trying to intimidate me: I’m nobody’s fool.
The gig is up. You broke my trust.
So now YOU listen to ME: It’s FU time! I’m not gonna live under your tyranny.
This is my turf, my world, my story to write, my turn to lead. I am finally breaking free! Come on world, let’s write our own story!”
Look for our upcoming videos and press releases to find out more about UNTHINK at http://www.UNTHINK.com or on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
Coming Next: a video featuring Unthinkers explaining why “Anyone Can Be Extraordinary!”
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About UNTHINK
UNTHINK Corporation is a technology company based in Tampa, Fla. UNTHINK is not a start-up. It was founded on April 22, 2008 by successful entrepreneurs with experience in re-inventing markets, and is supported by a dedicated team of more than 100 cutting-edge techies and rebels. It is a product of the foresight of its founders who three years ago realized that social media was headed in an alarming direction. UNTHINK.com is a social media revolution. It is built ON purpose WITH purpose to better serve people and brands, empower them, and make their lives easier. It disrupts existing market ‘think’ and shifts social media in the direction of Win-for-All.
Looking Backward from a User Perspective
Social media until now:
-A popular activity spoiled by a business ‘logic’ that clashed with users
-Compromised their privacy
-Plagued by endless redesigns
-Profile pages turned to commercial junkyards
-Ever-changing terms of use
-Segmented into multiple one-dimensional niche networks
-Unable to live up to its core promise of empowerment
-Lacked a strategy to stimulate collaboration between people and brands
-A non-transparent business, which used people as guinea pigs in its pursuit to exploit the social graph for profit
Looking Backward from a Brand Perspective
Social media until now:
-Consumed by privacy controversies
-Forced brands to build pages and fan bases they didn’t own
-Deleted accounts at will
-Subordinated brands to ever-changing policies and constantly dictated terms of use
-Segmented into multiple on dimensional niche networks
-Kept brands hostage to an unrealized promise of direct engagement
-A ‘business’ without a sustainable business model, which used brands as guinea pigs in its futile pursuit for profit
ON THE WEB:
http://www.UNTHINK.com
http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
http://www.twitter.com/iUNTHINK
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CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
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Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454
SOURCE: UNTHINK.com
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It’s almost like we thought of it…
Hi Unthinkers,
I didn’t touch the internet until I was 45. (yes, Im an old-timer) and I see the effect the social-media has. I remember visiting instead of calling on the cell. Calling instead of texting. Sending a card with a little something instead of a text. Facebook is just that. A book of faces. It cannot replace the real world. The fresh air, sunshine, trees, flowers, and saying hi to passer bys.
Our God-given love for these things will never leave but can be starved out of us by relentless nags of the social media giants to get more of this or that. I don’t NEED the internet. The internet needs me. I am who I am. Not what they say I am. And….so are you.
Looking forward to a new experience.
I think its wonderful that these people are working hard to create a competiton to face book, well google is there already.
But i am getting the feeling this is yet another social network. Everyone like to say “we are for the little guy”
Social network is synonymous to privacy invasion, the only thing i can “think” of is that they will have a good privacy policy, but then again it’s called “unthink”
IMHO “unthink” is not creative at all, but thats just an opinion
There’s already Diaspora. Unthink is yet another social network, right. You can’t control your data on Unthink. So why the hell would I put my data on it while knowing that I don’t know what happens with it?
There’s already Diaspora. Diaspora allows you to host your own data and integrate with other networks. Unthink is a Corporation, it has a ‘brands’ component to its operation which means it is seeking to making money, like selling t-shirts with the face of Guevara on them. It’s a meaningless propaganda ploy, reverse psychology at its most clumsy. Twitter offers more to users than what I think Unthink is promising. Besides I like to think rather than unthink. It’s more Web 3.0.
Unthink looks promising. Facebook and Google+ need someone to give them a good run for their money. Like some of the users here, I am skeptical that it is as altruistic as it seems. There’s money hidden here somewhere.
That said, Diasphora remains mainly the toy of a group of intellectuals and programmers. I have been waiting for over 2 years anxiously for Diasphora to ‘come of age’. Even if Diaspohora does go live, they appear to have zero ideas on how to go about building a community and convincing people to ‘make a move’.
On the other hand, Unthink has done a great job, via a couple of YouTube videos and some blogging, of communicating their message and position. They appear to be building momentum.
Next step? Who can build a social networking aggregator so users, owners -WE- can read and integrate all of these sites without losing our minds? Now that would be cool.
I signed up for the Unthink invite. Right before I hit the “Invite Me” button I paused and thought “god, I hope Facebook doesn’t delete my business account when they see I’m signing up for Unthink”.
Until that moment I hadn’t realized how much power I have been giving to Facebook; how much I had just accepted the knowledge that they spy on me, bully me and keep me in fear of being forced to live with changes and “improvements” that I do not want or worse, of just waking up one day to find my business page had been deleted altogether. I guess I just accepted these “terms” as part of the price I had to pay in exchange for staying in contact with my customers.
Thank you Unthink. I look forward to meeting you. And if FB deletes me as punishment for trying you out, I hope you’ll be there for me.
facebook ,google +,orkut now unthink lot of option for user..so quality work we see in these days
I’m sorry, but Unthink working is unthinkable.
The reason is simple. The masses simply DON’T CARE and DON’T KNOW that their information / privacy is being disseminated.
That is the fundamental reason that unthink will never work. It’s business is predicated upon the fact that people care and are smart.
THat’s not true.
Your average facebook user is the average person. Your average person is a retard.
Someone once said, and I forget who, “No one ever went broke betting on people’s stupidity.” I’m paraphrasing. But that’s basically the gist of it.
It’s ridiculous.
Unthink is too small. Who are their investor’s? Facebook’s got top dawg VC’s and companies highly invested in their survival. I mean, You think Goldman Sachs is gonna let its 500 mil investment just die?
No, they will destroy and unseat unthink and that is the reason unthink cannot work. Unless unthink has Google / Apple / Microsoft and a list of other fortune 500 companies backing it, unthink will just be another company that maybe, acquires 100k users, 70k of which tried it for fun and dies in a year.
That’s how companies work and the start up world works. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. You need people supporting you to make it big.
“The people that make it in this world have someone older and more powerful take interest in them”
I don’t see it yet. And coming to the game so late, I don’t see it.
Mark my works, I will bet anyone anything that unthink will NEVER unseat facebook.
nuff said.