Brooks Bayne

ZobZee a hoax? Probably

Sometimes tech hype gets retarded. Robert Scoble sends a message and we just sign up for any new beta Scoble mentions. Here’s the email from ZobZee after I signed up for the “beta”. They claim to be a killer in the social space. Raised $50 million from unamed investors…sure you did. Pics, or it didn’t happen…

Thank you for requesting to be part of our beta. Our team has been quietly working in stealth mode for 6-months building the app that will kill both Twitter and FriendFeed overnight!

While we can’t tell you exactly how it will work right now, you can be guaranteed that it will blow your mind. We’ve taken social media to the next level. ZobZee will be like plugging your brain right into your friends brain and actually knowing their thoughts as they think them.

The tech is so revolutionary that we had to get special government permits to test it. Initial testing was done on a few select, not to be named, a-list tech bloggers. The response? Total and complete mind melding with the most important geeks in the world.

Imagine being able to know what Scoble is hungry for the moment he thinks it? He doesn’t even have to type it… just think it, and you’ll know.

Imagine you could know what Jason Calacanis is thinking in the
shower. If you are his Zobzee friend, you will know immediately
and you could share all of his secrets.

But that’s not even the most killer aspect of Zobzee.com. We’ve
developed a way… wait, we can’t even tell you that yet. It’s
simply… unbelievable!

As you may or may not know, we just received $50 million in funding from a group of unnamed investors in the valley. So expect ZobZee to be up and running soon. Techcrunch and Mashable will be featuring Zobzee within the next few weeks so stay tuned.

Want to help? Please pass the ZobZee.com link to as many friends as you can. When we do finally open for beta testing, you’ll be the first to test it out.

Yours Truly,

The ZobZee.com Team

2220 Superior Viaduct, #3, Cleveland, OH 44113, USA

Edit: The email came routed from http://www.aweber.com/ an email marketing company. Thank goodness I use gmail so the spam that will ensue will bypass my inbox.

Update: Definitely a hoax. The first mention of ZobZee on twitter was from Jim Kukral. http://twitter.com/jimkukral/statuses/824949557 in which he wrote:

I’m tired of twitter being down. Can’t wait for http://www.zobzee.com/ to finally come out of beta. Anyone got an invite for me?

Subsequently, within hours, Kukral sends a tweet to @Techcrunch and says he can facilitate an invite to ZobZee. However, Kukral registered the domain ZobZee.com yesterday.

Registrant:
jim kukral
3669 alla drive
seven hills, Ohio 44131
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: ZOBZEE.COM
Created on: 01-Jun-08
Expires on: 02-Jun-09
Last Updated on: 01-Jun-08

Administrative Contact:
kukral, jim jim@jimkukral.com
3669 alla drive
seven hills, Ohio 44131
United States
(216) 272-4383

Technical Contact:
kukral, jim jim@jimkukral.com
3669 alla drive
seven hills, Ohio 44131
United States
(216) 272-4383 

Additionally, Kukral runs a blog titled, “The Daily Flip, Jim Kukral - Marketing Ideas Online”. I wonder how marketing hoax ideas online will work out for Jim.