Yuku
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Type of site
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Hosted Internet forums |
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| Owner | Tapatalk |
| Created by | ezboard |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 4,768 (Global, June 2015)
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| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | September 2005; September 2006; January 2008 |
Yuku is the latest version of ezboard, Inc.'s internet forums. Yuku describes itself as "Message Boards 2.0". This tagline was most likely derived from the Web 2.0 features of Yuku message boards, such as tags and RSS.
Yuku was owned by KickApps, the acquisition being announced on February 13, 2008, until the end of 2010, when Yuku was sold to Inform Technologies Inc. The acquisition was announced to all board owners on December 24, 2010.
On September 8, 2011, Crowdgather, Inc. publicly announced acquiring the domain name, website and assets related to yuku.com including the ezboard domains and its integrated forums.
In 2016, Yuku was acquired by Tapatalk, which migrated the contents of all its boards to their own platform in July 2017. Yuku.com addresses now redirect to Tapatalk.com, and Yuku no longer exists as a separate entity.
Yuku has been in development since 2005 and was revealed as being "available now" at DEMOfall 2005 in September 2005, although it was in Alpha at that time.
At the DEMOfall launch, ezboard, Inc.'s CEO Robert Labatt's presentation explained that advertising revenues would be shared with the individual board owners. Labatt estimated that "an average large community" could receive $3,000 to $5,000 (speculated) a month. The launch was reported by media outlets such as Computerworld, USA Today, Bloomberg and CNN Money.
More demos were given at the New York City Blogon 2005 event where it was selected as a "BlogOn 2005 Social Media Innovator". Another demonstration was more recently given in November 2006 at a monthly technology networking event in San Francisco: SFWIN 1.10. Instead of the revenue feature mentioned at DEMOfall 2005, only the integral approach of combining message boards and blogs with multiple profiles per person were highlighted.
As with ezboard, free Yuku boards are supported through advertisements.
Some of the key features of Yuku are listed below.
Yuku's user profiles are interactive and similar to those at other Social Networking web sites. Friends can be added or removed, comments can be posted, and private messages exchanged between users. Each account offers the possibility of having five profiles.
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