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Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by whatever_dude »

jaxondu wrote: post #66
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…

Bad move for not having a web version. I just don't feel like downloading apps nowadays. A few of my friends are also like that.

You're probably not the target audience. I'd bet ~98% of the people on HN aren't.

The app is aiming at the Instagram, Snapchat crowd. Instagram didn't have a web front until recently, Snapchat still doesn't.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by richmarr »

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…

Gamification... because we know our app isn't interesting enough without it

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by tommorris »

throwanem wrote: post #129
avckp wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is hooli?

Silicon Valley 's theoretical-lawsuit-friendly version of Google. It's interesting to me that a lot of shows do this, and I'm not sure why. Silicon Valley has Hooli. Veep has Clovis. Person of Interest had "Fetch and Retrieve", which honestly guys are you even trying. None of these shows seems to shy away from portraying other large tech companies, and it's trivially obvious even to someone nowhere near the industry…

Strange, I always thought of Hooli as Yahoo, but that might be because I know a lot of programmers who used to work at Yahoo and have heard the dysfunctions first hand over beer more.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by hobo_mark »

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.

There is a way to run Android apps in Chrome [1], which I refused to believe until I tried it with a random APK and worked perfectly.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/apps/getstarted_arc

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

technomancy wrote: post #133
prajjwal wrote: post #13

Orkut 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…

> people in developing countries who might not have access to a smartphone I live across a river from Burma, and I can tell you it's at least an order of magnitude easier for people there to get access to a smartphone than a desktop or laptop. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-fa... I mean, I agree that it's a deal-killer for people like you and me, but the idea that it would make it less suit…

I live in a first-world country, I do have an Android phone, but I'm always out of internal storage and need to delete apps. Most people in my friends/family circle are in the same situation. So even if we have Android, services based exclusively on mobile apps have an accessibility problem for us. I suppose this problem will be larger in places like Burma, where smartphones will be cheaper and older on average.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by djsumdog »

jaxondu wrote: post #66
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…

Bad move for not having a web version. I just don't feel like downloading apps nowadays. A few of my friends are also like that.

No web version which also means there's probably noting really new or revolutionary. No federation. Not open.

I've been messing with some of the old federated projects that never seemed to go anywhere. GNU Social, Diaosapra, etc.

I'd like to just get a few nerd friends on one, just to say I'm at least trying to get away from the current model.

Hello just looks like another ello.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by stronglikedan »

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…

That is the one thing I absolutely hate about Amazon's Alexa app. They have a super-fast browser version that, to date, has executed everything flawlessly for me with speed and precision. Then there's the native Android app - a slow, clunky, POS (when it even starts properly - usually after 30 seconds of watching a spinning circle icon). But hey, guess what? Trying to access the great browser version from your 1080p mobile device with a fully capable web browser? NOPE! Just a button to download the POS native app. Really, Amazon, I expected better.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by [deleted] »

ffggvv wrote: post #138
manuelleduc wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK it might be more common than you think. I have a female friend who's firstname is Fanny and another one who's lastname is Cocq. They both expect a few laugh when they introduce themselves in english speaking countries.

Dick is a english name. I don't see the problem.

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