Well, the silence continues.

Still no updates or code pushes mentioned in the ezboard CEO WordPress Blog and no apparent sign of Robert Labatt since 9 May 2006 on Yuku. Perhaps it’s taking all his time to come up with his hour’s presentation scheduled for tomorrow night, being “the Communities Expert” he is. Apparently.

So let’s just have a recap on where they’ve got to with Yuku, shall we?

1. Shared Advertising Revenue.

Well, despite ezboard now admitting they run “adult” advertising on some of the ezboard network (as ezboard apparently has trouble selling “normal” ads. on its “adult” boards), there’s still no word on when, how and what proportion of the advertising revenue generated by Yuku boards will be shared with the board ‘owners’. Let’s not forget this was supposedly Yuku’s USP and why Yuku would be “better than free”.

2. Yuku Charges.

Putting the advertising revenue sharing to one side now, there’s still no definitive pricing structure available for potential Yuku board owners to see when making their decision as to which message board system to choose. Likewise, Yuku hasn’t announced the pricing for its ezSupporter equivalent either.

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And now … timetables!

a) 13 March 2006 CEO Update

“During the next two months we will help you move your board over and build custom board skins.”

Does anyone know of any regular, public, non-development ezboards that have been helped over to Yuku? I certainly don’t.

“In the next few weeks there will an easy to follow board migration process available in Yuku.”

No yet, there isn’t.

b) 14 March 2006 CEO Update

“We are on a weekly development release calendar with Yuku. Every Monday we release new code and bug fixes.”

Of course, this might still be the case, but reading the lack of updates on the CEO Blog itself, Labatt’s Yuku Blog and the Developers’ Blog it doesn’t look as though much is being done.

c) 19 March 2006 CEO Update

“We expect that ezOps will be able to copy their board over nearer the end of April.”

It’s now May 23rd…

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So, it looks as though ezboard/Yuku has missed out with all the timescales they’re quoted thus far, excluding the real biggy: being ready for “prime time” during 2006 (fabulously inexact that).

It’ll be interesting to see if all the promised features are actually available when it comes out of beta…