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VooEasy is a new network that has taken bits and pieces from a variety of social networking concepts in order to create a centralized location for communicating with your existing groups that you interact with outside of the Internet. Not yet launched, VooEasy is currently in private beta and has already gotten some seed funding from angel investors. We've got ample invites here for Mashable readers. Just click this link and provide your email address at the bottom of the screen--an invite will promptly be sent along.
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]So getting down to the review of VooEasy: the network is comprised of multiple teams that you create upon sign up. This essentially allows you to make a mini world of your own, that touches whatever aspects of your life you'd like to reflect in your online expression. This isn't entirely different from a groups option on an existing social network, but each team is still very much intertwined into your VooEasy profile.
Now this concept is one that's being experimented with on a couple of different levels. While social networking came along with a one-size-fits-all approach to profile management, we've now found the benefits of enabling a permission-based approach to letting users select who sees what aspects of their profiles within a single account. This retrofitting of added customization on an individual level is being tested by the likes of collectiveX and Friendster. But what VooEasy has done is offer this option, to some extent, right from the start.
As the success of Facebook hinged on the reality that physical, offline groups found an online space in which to interact for practical purposes, VooEasy is hoping to bank on this tactic by encouraging you to create teams based on your interests and actual lifestyle. So you can create a team for work, school, hometown, clothing brand, book club, television show...anything you find of interest to you. Where VooEasy differs is the fact that all of your information is aggregated onto your profile.
Once you get to your profile, you may be a bit overwhelmed, because it is extremely centralizing in its approach to offering you a one-stop-shop for the activity going on throughout the site, and how it relates back to you. Your profile as well as your teams each have "cards," which act as visual representations of your online presence and social graph, to a certain degree.
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Pulling the update feature from Twitter, you can always share your status. Adding instant sidebar chat options similar to meebo, you can make yourself available to converse with others at any given moment. Mixing in microblogging, you can share your thoughts, and much like Yahoo Answers, you can leave a question for the community to answer at any time. Share links and photos, view your chat history (which is also viewable by other users), sell items, hold discussions with other users, vote items up and down, save favorites, start groups (different from teams), and a whole lot more.