Some commenters on TechCrunch are asking the usual question: what’s the business model? I think it’s obvious: Ziki has commission-based deals with sunglass-manufacturers.
If you visit the site, you’ll see it yourself – but not for long, your eyes will burn (sans shades).
On a more serious note: I will soon write about a truly innovative business model (by another company).
Update (4/24). Nobody else seems to have discovered the “secret deal” – they talk about Zikis social networking, tagging ..etc features. 
- Ziki : people newsmaster
- Ziki – Finding People by Tag, Name or Web Address
- Zikified
- Ziki – Your Digital Life in a Box
Update (4/27): Ziki listens: they toned down the colors – there goes the sunglasses-deal ![]()
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Apparently that’s what Folgers think. In an ill-fated New York City commercial they placed photos of coffee-tops on steaming manhole covers. Yuccckkk….
OK, let’s just all come clean. Blogging is a hoax. It’s just a cover to hide our primary business: selling our bodies. First Robert and Shel got
Then came Chris Pirillo, renting out his chest for 20 bucks… I have not seen his complete price list for other body parts, but check out his pix at 

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