AnyBeat First Impressions
By Roland Quitalig
I finally received my AnyBeat invitation today. Staring at my measly CRED score of 2, I’m already researching how to increase it. I posted a picture, answered two questions, changed my relationship status, and liked a random stranger’s forum post. I was able to increase my score to 5.
Taking focus of this figure, I realize that Dmitry Shapiro’s site is not much different from Facebook or Twitter. You first login to a newsfeed where people can share posts and links. You maintain a profile that has a feed, about, photo, and questions section. The networking schema uses a follower and people you follow system. How is AnyBeat going to draw users from these popular social mediums?
For AnyBeat to be successful, it is going to need to offer its users something different from what’s already provided. Its campaign for anonymity is a good start. Both Twitter and Facebook discourage users from using pseudo identities. Pairing anonymity with a CRED system, however, shows to be pointless. People already gauge credibility on these type of sites by the number of friends, followers, fans, and likes.
AnyBeat is going to really need to play out its strengths wisely before its official launch. Still in development, it is still too soon to predict whether it’s going to make the cut.
