I'm the age Of Snapchat and Instagram Stories I'm not sure how a Facebook clone can be successful
It's actually teenager-oriented snapchat clone with gamification. And phone-only too.
The gamification alone would be a reason for me not to join.
Hello from Orkut
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#102Don't really care for yet another social network, but the letter Orkut wrote was beautiful.
File under “refined marketing ploy”.
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#103Maybe 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.
Or the letter was written by one person and the presentation and app were designed by a group, and the latter's type of work rarely is as cohesive.
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#104I'm just sitting here wondering how much they paid for the domain name hello.com
That was exactly my first thought when i read "hello.com"
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#105I must say it's light & easy to use. Most importantly really fast and minimal taps. This is very important for any new app. As for the mobile only situation I would say this is a good business decision to minimise (not eliminate) spam accounts and possibly would be a good idea if people get indexed into search or people share this will promote installations. It worked well with IG this concept so I'd say in its early…
Teach me. How did you get through registration? (I'm on Android, and typing in my 4-digit code just whites everything out. I can't finish registration!)
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#106Orkut was our go-to social network as teens, before we all moved to Facebook in 2009. I'm was going to join this out of sheer nostalgia, but it appears to be lacking a web app. I'm curious as to why they went with ONLY native Android / iOS apps. That will not only drive away people like me, who prefer to use things from a desktop web browser, but also people in developing countries who might not have access to a smar…
It's easier to suck up your information, access your contact lists and physical location, when you're stuck on a mobile app.
This, I believe, is the correct answer. I refuse to give most companies that much power.
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#107If you click on the turkish version of the announcement, "gay" is replaced with "different" (in Turkish of course). Do people in Turkey say "farkli" (different) when they mean "gay"? Checked and all other translations actually say gay or homosexual.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160708083122/http://orkut.com/...
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#109Tagschat.com is just the same concept, but web-based. We are about to exit beta with a completely new UX in a few days. Meanwhile you can subscribe! We'll launch the mobile app in a few months too.
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#110I'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…
And even the android app is limited to "Android 5.0 and up" and to a few countries and it has low ratings and reviews from users.
So it looks like a really weak "launch" :(.
And from the descriptions I don't see how its "features" are different from the other social networks.