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Hello from Orkut
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#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
The website where you share content based on your interests is called Tumblr. It solves the personas problem too.
What's the solution to the personas problem on Tumblr? (I'm not an active Tumblr user.) Interestingly enough, we did see a lot of the type of content relevant to this on Tumblr. We built a Tumblr import tool to allow people to pull in their content from Tumblr. We also cross-posted some of our content out to Tumblr.
You make sideblogs. Accounts can make as many blogs as they want, and viewing them doesn't give any links back to the owner, so they're private.
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#313A _social_ network built by "ex-Google" engineers.
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#314Wasn't Orkut dominant in Brazil? I suppose they killed it to pump Google+? Anyway it makes you wonder if Google Cloud will really survive. Can the world's #2 public tech company by market cap really afford to be a distant third (fourth?) in a market?
It was big in Brazil and India. I saw the transition from Orkut to Facebook in India. I arrived in India with a Facebook account in 2005 and nobody was on Facebook, so I created an Orkut account. By 2008 Orkut was gone, Facebook was all everyone knew.
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#315All you "Hmmph! No Web UI!" people are old. They don't need you.
Not having a desktop interface means all the typing on the platform will be done on soft keyboards on tiny phone screens, which will hobble discussions and lead to at-best superficial interactions.
Phone-only means this is an "Ow! my balls!" social network. You're right, they don't need me.
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#316Strange move. The social networks are dying afaik. To me it looks like social is integrated more and more with other things you do every day. Even Facebook seems to be struggling. This is not the time for another social network. Maybe there won't be any serious time for social networks again.
Maybe a businessmodel would be to think of social networks not as a standalone thing but as middleware that connects other services like video, short messages, quotes, cat pictures, games, work environments. Make a social middleware business model, not a new app.
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#317All you "Hmmph! No Web UI!" people are old. They don't need you.
Not having a desktop interface means all the typing on the platform will be done on soft keyboards on tiny phone screens, which will hobble discussions and lead to at-best superficial interactions. Phone-only means this is an "Ow! my balls!" social network. You're right, they don't need me.
> Not having a desktop interface means all the typing on the platform will be done on soft keyboards on tiny phone screens
Mobile OS's power more than just phones, including devices that not-infrequently are used with separate keyboards rather the on-screen variety.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you believed HN users' tech predictions, Snapchat would've shutdown a month after launch.
What is snapchat? ;-)
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#319I'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…
> no web version means I won't bother at all. They are building a web version, they're just doing mobile first. And that may be a pretty smart move. "You will work with our product designers, mobile engineers, and backend engineers to create a distinct web version of our mobile offering." ( http://www.hello.com/en/jobs/ ) Orkut was global, and in a global context, mobile devices may be more heavily used than laptop /…
"Orkut was global, and in a global context, mobile devices may be more heavily used than laptop / desktop web."
Mobile devices have web browsers. In fact, by some measure, the ability to run a web browser would be the defining characteristic of a "smart" phone.
We had a name for phones that just ran little applets - they were called "feature phones". Some of them had very interesting, even great features.
But it's the browser, and things like the browser, that make the smartphone smart.
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#320> 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.
As a side note, meaning of the full name:
Orkut: Blessed city (old Turkish)
Büyükkökten: from big root (Turkish, literal translation)