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Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by basisword »

drdaeman wrote: post #31
themihai wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People use mobile more than desktop on social apps so it makes a lot of sense. Eventually there will be a web/desktop version as well(if it catches on). Shortly said mobile web sucks so a native app is better than a broken website.

Doesn't it suck for anything but simplest forms of communication? I mean, I just can't stand touch-typing anything but very short messages. Whenever there's any conversation that involves more typing than posting a meme picture and replying with "lol" I run for a real terminal, with a real physical keyboard. I don't know about others, but for me being significantly slowed down with typing is frustrating. And I hope t…

>> "I don't know about others, but for me being significantly slowed down with typing is frustrating. And I hope to believe I'm not an outstandingly slow with touchscreen keyboards..."

Just anecdotally watching people type I think that the general consumer who isn't typing on a real keyboard all day, is actually much quicker on a phone. Look at teenagers - they spend much of their day communicating on a phone hence they get quite good at typing on it. I'm shocked at how quickly a lot of people I know reply to me from their phone. So I don't think it's that you are outstandingly slow, just that you and I spend a lot of time using real keyboards so we can use them efficiently and a lot of other people spend most of their time using touch keyboards and can use them more efficiently than us.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by elros »

eknkc wrote: post #41
timje1 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.

My last name is koc (turkish..) and it's funny to observe english speaking people trying not to spell it like "cock".

But wouldn't Koc be pronounced something like "Kodj"?

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by andy_ppp »

I love how confident people seem to be that this won't be successful (the truth is I'm still shocked that airbed and breakfast was so popular ;-D). I for one don't mind a gamified version of Facebook that's about real world interaction.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by arkitaip »

andy_ppp wrote: post #53

I love how confident people seem to be that this won't be successful (the truth is I'm still shocked that airbed and breakfast was so popular ;-D). I for one don't mind a gamified version of Facebook that's about real world interaction.

HNers are just as terrible at predicting the (tech) future as regular people. Maybe even worse because they tend to be biased against social software.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by mda »

timje1 wrote: post #12
mikkom wrote: post #3

> We even got married and had kids because of orkut. This has a totally different meaning in finnish as orkut means "orgasms" in casual speak.

Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.

Ufuk Uras is also Turkish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufuk_Uras

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by xorcist »

TekMol wrote: post #46
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #23

I'm echoing what others are saying: no web version means I won't bother at all. My phone has access to multiple great browsers. Building a good lightweight web app means I can access the content from anywhere without having to deal with annoyances of push notifications or (as much) creepy tracking. My favorite example of a mobile web app is currently Twitter Mobile [0]. I even like using it from my desktop. It's very…

Seconded. Is there a way to run Android apps in a VM on Linux? A VM for phone applications would be similar to a browser. A browser runs websites in a safe environment. A way to run apps in a safe environment would be nice.

Many. I've used Android-x86(.org) on KVM which worked so well I didn't pursue others. There is some semi-commercial fork called Remix OS that's more polished.

If you only need to use an app and not the rest of the environment you can also run it as a Chrome plugin under ARC and not mess with virtualization at all.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by curried_haskell »

icebraining wrote: post #16

Maybe I'm just being cynical, but I see a large dissonance between this message and the 'hello' presentation. He laments that "we stay with locals when we travel abroad but we don't even know our neighbours at home", yet the new social network seems to push more in that direction (it talks about connecting people based on their interests, not their proximity). He says "we are afraid of what we don't know [...] we are…

Because guess what, the letter is just a promotion for this new social network that they hope to sell everybody on. It doesn't matter if he really cares about any of those things, only that we think that he cares about those things and then go use his social network and divulge our private lives to yet another foreign entity.
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