Social Spark Now Released

IZEA released Social Spark Today. I was one of the first to hit their site and see if it promises to live up to all the hype.  The one thing I did notice off the bat that the control is now in the business owner’s hands.

I was a little disgruntled that they offer a video tutorial. Click the link. No tutorial.  That said, I love a challenge. I created a dummy account and went on a mining expedition.  Within minutes I saw something that no other advertising site offered. I could pick posts one at a time. No minimum campaign. No minimum number of posts. No down payment. There were even more than 30 ‘free’ opportunities.

I clicked through to a blog and took  my first look at the controversial pop up. It wasn’t as bad as I expected.  We’d been made to believe this popup resembled the Devil’s own attempt at viral marketing. Instead I saw a neat, clean lined box with a YouTube music video on one side, and an invitation to join Social Spark on the other.

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Homepage is the application

About two years ago, I stumbled onto jotform.com a fantastic web application that builds web forms in a wysiwyg formant, better than any offline program I have ever seen, it includes easy to start-with templates, the ability to implement payment options and a breath of form input options all without having to do a single bit of php or cgi. Just copy the code into your web doc and you’re good to go.   

While the jotform web application is a sturdy, and excellent resource - That wasn’t what first struck me about jotform.com - It was the homepage, or the lack of a homepage rather. The application is the homepage, actually, it’s the  entire site really.

I’ve seen this quite a bit lately for web applications. The idea that the url is just a gateway to using the application, finding out more about it is just a small side note. While a simple concept its so smart, immediately immersing you into the utility of the program.