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Two College Students Aim to Connect People Across the World with Zaang

Michael Markarian and Alex Kravets founded Zaang in 2007 while students at Babson College. They saw tremendous opportunity in bringing people together who share something in common – something lacking in the social networking and microblogging space.

Zaang.com Aims To Zing Cyberspace

Do you love to talk "Lost," but your friends just don’t follow? Want to show off the giant fish you caught, but your family doesn’t give a hoot? Zaang.com lets you connect with people who understand just how you feel.

Get A Room Already

Michael Markarian was an undergrad at Babson College in 2007, sitting around with friends in his dorm room, when the idea for a social networking site called Zaang came to him. Zaang, as defined by urbandictionary.com, is "something that is both awesome and amazing (which is why there are two a's)." Yesterday Zaang went live...

Startup Watch: Five you should follow

As part of each week's Startup Report, Mass High Tech highlights five startup companies, and their business goals, that are profiled in the New England Tech Directory. With each week's Startup Watch, Mass High Tech will choose the weekly featured companies by soliciting nominations through

Zaang Beta- Bringing Forums to Web 2.0

Zaang (beta) is a brand new service which brings discussion to the next level. Released as a private beta earlier last week, this service reboots our perception of discussion to web 2.0. I received an invite code to preview the site last week. (Note: at the bottom of the post, we'll be giving away free invite codes)

Invites - Zaang Wants To Host Your Topical Conversations

Zaang, a company that is still in private beta, is out to reorganize the way that you discuss topics. The company is centering discussions in individual 'worlds', which are similar to FriendFeed rooms without the real-time aspect. Each room has a main genre, such as Poker. I founded the Tech Blogging room, so far it's just me.

Zaang Lets You Socialize In Worlds

You come across a a topic or lets say a controversy that has been there for ages, you search for destinations where there are groups dedicated to talk and share thoughts on. What if you could actually create one destination for the like minded and have conversations and not just like, share.