KaZuum uses locations to provide its users with information about what's going on their area. Your location can be as specific or general as you would like it, and you can always modify and change your locations in your Profile.

In this digital age, it's pretty darn easy to create a ton of fake email accounts and use them to overload a website with unwanted (and potentially dangerous) spam.
By verifying your email address, it's a small effort that helps our users determine if you're a real person or not. It's not an absolute test, but it's a baby step
and when taken in concert with other things we're doing, a useful measure.

Announcements are messages from the admins at KaZuum where we let you know about new features and respond to issues you may have been experiencing.

The post watchlist is where you can view your posts that you're currently keeping tabs on. You can add a post to this list anytime by clicking the "add to watchlist" or "add to favorites" buttons while viewing any post.

We keep track of the favorite posts in all of KaZuum and post the top 10 in the Top10 listing.

The feed is where we help you track everything that's going on around you. It lets you know when a friend has created a post, updated their profile, or changed their picture.

If someone responds or comments on any of your postings, you'll also find that information here. We're always working on making this information more relevant and useful to you.

If your feed starts to get out of hand, or you just want to clear it, you can use the "clean up" and "clear all" buttons. "Clean up" removes all alerts that are over a day old, while "clear all" removes them all. Use responsibly.

You can change what displays in your feed in your Profile.

Posts are the heart and soul of KaZuum--
they enable you to share information, offer things for sale, rant, rave, organize events, all within the confines of your social network or friend groups.

There are 9 post types on KaZuum - services, wanteds, stuff, barters, activities, rents, soapboxes, employment, and resumes.

With all posts you can create groups or simply use the ones we've created already to make sure only select people in your network receive your post information. You can also inform non-KaZuum users with the "share this post" links and email form.

Services involve things you can do either for free or for a price, they can be at a select location, or within a radius of that location. You can let people know your schedule for this service (e.g. M-F, Weekends, 9-5, 10pm-6am)

Wanted posts indicate that you want something - it can be a service, an item, or something in between (not sure what that really is). You can specify the time and place you would want to receive that want as well.

Stuff postings are for items. There are 3 subtypes in this genre - Auctions, Sale, and Free.
Auctions are time limited and run out after 7 days. You set a starting price and an incremental price, and users can create bids on this item until the post is either expired or you close it.
Sale items have a set price, allowing people to respond with their own price or a comment; you decide who is selected.
Free stuff helps keep our landfills empty, saves everyone a buck or two, and is a great way to help our friends or make new ones.

Bartering involves the exchange of stuff and services without any money being involved. Post what you want, with what you have in mind to trade for it and see who responds.

Activities allow you to invite your friends, groups, or friends of friends to events and outings. You can set the number of participants, tell people the time and place, and even remove people from the response list (not very nice, but sometimes you just gotta do it).

Rental posts can be anything you've got or anything you're looking for- just tell people what's available, and for how much. Find roommates, a buddy with a truck for a couple hours at IKEA, or a Ruby on Rails programmer for some ad-hoc consulting.

Soapboxes are announcements, discussions, questions, rants and raves that you can make amongst your friends. You can also use them as blogs, message boards, kazoos*, or pizza cutters*.

Employment posts are made by businesses or individuals with serious requirements for permanent employment (not slavery).

Resumes can be posted by people seeking employment.

This lists your current posts
Post#s are unique, you can always view a post by URL http://www.KaZuum.com/post/POST#.

Status can be one of four values - active, closed, de-activated, and editing.
Active posts are viewable by other users, and you can place comments and receive responses on them.
De-activated posts are viewable, but no one can post comments or respond to them.
Editing posts are viewable only by the owner of the post.
Closed posts are viewable by all, but cannot be further commented or responded to.

Views list the number of unique user views of your post - this includes yourself.

Actions allow you to switch the status of the post immediately from this screen - you can set it to (E)dit, (D)e-activated, (C)losed, and (A)>ctivated from this list.
(X) will remove a closed post from your list, but not from the system (we don't ever delete posts)

You can always click on the name of the post to take you to viewing it.

Stats views your total activities on KaZuum - the number of posts you've responded to and commented on by day, week, month, and year.

Responses lists all the posts to which you have responded, how long ago that response was made, and the response you made.

Comments lists all the posts to which you have made comments, the age of the comment, and the comment itself.

To send a new message, click "New Message".
The "to" field will autocomplete with a name if you start typing the first name or email address of someone in your friend list.
Subject and contents are as with any email - they'll show up as expected.
Click Send to send this message.

Click these links to change which types of messages are viewed - those in your inbox, those you've sent, or those you've put in the trash.

You can sort your messages using the select links, or with the checkboxes. Then use the drop down "with selected..." to create actions for your selected messages.

KaZuum is all about friends, so we have a place where you can keep track of all of them.
This is the list of all your friends on KaZuum, listed by name, status, last activity, groups they belong to, and actions.

Actions include:
(x)- removing a friend from your friend list
(+)- sorting a friend to a new private group
(k)- not sure what to do with k yet.
(b)- banning a not so nice friend from ever seeing your posts again.

Pending Friends are users on KaZuum who have requested your friendship and addition to their social network. You can either ignore, message, or accept them.

The Friend Finder is uncoded, but wil probably let you search for friends in your area, by name, email address, or interest.

Groups help you manage your friends list - not all friends are interested in your car posts, not all friends want to know about your problems with your cubical neighbor's B.O. (sorry James). Use groups to split them up and provide more relevant information (and save yourself embarassment).

This is the list of all your groups on KaZuum, listed by name, number of members (size), and actions. There are two types of groups - private (only visible to you) and public (visible and joinable by others).

Actions include:
(x)- dissolving a group you own
(E)- editing stats on a group you own
(b)- banning a group of friends. I'll probably take this out.

You can add new groups here with the nifty form. Give your group a name and description, an optional location, and a category.

Pending Invitations are requests you have to join groups, or requests by other users to join a group that you own.

The Group Finder is uncoded, but will let you search for groups based on name, location, keyword in description or category.

Your public profile is what is viewed by other users or visitors to KaZuum.
Any profile is always visible by the URL: http://www.KaZuum.com/profile/[LOGIN]
A profile consists of several pieces of information:
your default picture- selected in manage pictures
your city and state for your default location- we reverse map it
stats- the number of members you've added through invitations, and the number of times your banner ads have been clicked on.
birthday- display is set in Settings/privacy
status- from Status Messages
about me- a description you can enter with full html markup in your profile.
feedback- from posts that you have had closed with responses
post list- about the same as the one in your My Posts, but without controls toggle their statuses.
your friends- links to who your friends are so people can discover ones they might not have known are on KaZuum.

This is where you can add and remove locations.
Locations are kept so you can more easily add and remove them from posts, as well as help others determine where you are.
KaZuum uses your default location as your "home base" when originating searches within a radius.

This is where you can add and remove pictures.
Pictures right now serve only to give your postings and notices a face, making you easier to trust to strangers, and perhaps more easily to add to friend lists.
(more on this coming soon!)

This is where you can manage your Alerts Feed.
There are two options to managing your feed - managed, with the rules set on this page, and unmanaged, which means showing all the alerts that are available to you (drinking from a fire hose).
You can specify how many alerts you want in your feed with "number of alerts to display".

And for each type of alert, you can specify your interest-
Never- means you will never see these alerts in your feed.
Hardly- these are not deleted, but will have lowest priority of display in your feed.
Sometimes- These are given preferential treatment to the "hardly" alerts, but not as important as "mostly"
Mostly- These will be shown if you have enough space in your feed after showing the "always" alerts.
Always- you will always see these alerts in your feed if you have enough space to display them.

These adjustments are on the fly - if you change these options, then go back and view your feed in Home, you will see it updated to your new conditions.

Your profile is your user information available to other users on KaZuum.
edit your First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Date of Birth (DOB), and About Me (Description) here.
You can also change your password with the link provided.

Your friends list is a quick reference to your friends on KaZuum.
The symbol next to their name tells you what their current status is, and mousing over the icon tells you their status message. Clicking on their name takes you to their profile.
:) means they are currently online
:| means they are idle (not doing anything)
:( means they are offline.

Your status message is available for you to change at any time. Simply click on the text underneath your login and you'll be able to edit it right there.
Use it to broadcast how you feel, show links to the world, or write haikus to your goldfish.


Oh wondrous goldfish, swimming so delicately, floating...upside down?!?!

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Kazuum hosts their blog courtesy of Google at http://KaZuum.blogspot.com. We'll eventually get around to moving to here, but until now it's there, and there it stays.
Check there for musings by the KaZuum team.

This is our legal notice - the terms of service to which all KaZuum users agree when using the site. If it ever changes, you will be notified at login, and forced to agree again to the updated version before logging in.

This is our privacy statement, our promises to you regarding how your information is used on the site. We hate spam, we hate phishers, we hate fraudsters.
Please see to how we use your information to make sure you're in agreement, if there is ever any question about what we do with your information, contact us immediately.
KaZuum will never ask for your login or password via any @KaZuum.com email address. This is because we don't even know what your password is, it's SHA2 one way encrypted along with another secret code (so even if we had it, it would be useless to us).
Unfortunately this makes the fastest way for someone to get your password to just ask you, so be careful.

Contact us is essentially the form you see below - send us a message about anything, we would love to hear from you!

This tells you about KaZuum - who we are, our thanks, KaZuum in the press, notice to potential investors, careers at KaZuum, and our Mission Statement.

This page shows the 10 latest posts in each post category, as well as the top 10 favored posts on KaZuum, and the last 10 posts made by your friends.

Browse all gives a Craigslist style view of KaZuum. As time goes on, these views will be upgraded.

You can browse only certain post types by clicking the post type. You can view previous dates' posts by going back in time with the links at the bottom. Click the category name to view posts only from that category, or cick the name and description to go straight to the post itself. Clicking the name of the poster takes you to the poster's public profile.

You can also browse via URL with the following syntax:
browse by date: http://www.kazuum.com/browse/[YEAR]/[MONTH]/[DAY]
browse all for a month: http://www.kazuum.com/browse/[YEAR]/[MONTH]
browse all for the year: http://www.kazuum.com/browse/[YEAR]

To reset browse and start over, click "all".