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Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by jogjayr »

philsnow wrote: post #162
kid0m4n wrote: post #116

Why oh why limit it from being available in countries like India? You want users, we got users. Can never comprehend behind a geo wall for things like this (and can totally understand why Netflix wasn't earlier). PS: I wonder how much hello.com cost, and how did he have control over the orkut.com domain?

I wouldn't surprised if this is an attempt to get it established in the states / Europe before it gets popular in India / Brazil. One of the reasons a lot of people left Orkut is because it got too popular in Brazil and the default language on a lot of user groups / communities became Portuguese.

That would make sense, except that most Indian Internet users use English online. Especially those who have been on the Internet long enough to have used Orkut when it was around.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by benhardy »

Been fooling around with it. The UI is very buggy (using iPhone). Despite this, it is attractive. I would like to see better support for doing purely text posts. Otherwise I don't see much of a difference to Instagram. I like the personas idea, but I'd like it to go a step further: say if I had a writer persona and wanted to have a nom de plume different to my own, that would be very useful.

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Post by exadeci »

dack wrote: post #183
throwanem wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It doesn't exactly fit Google - there are definitely several products that are a Google thing, but many other aspects that diverge. I think not naming them has multiple benefits. 1) Less likely to get sued, 2) They want to be able to diverge where it makes sense for the story, 3) They don't want to distract viewers with the real companies (since people have preconceived notions and might be pulled out of the story if…

It's a new company but it's a caricature of Google or Alphabet and Alphabet has a link to Hooli hidden on their page source https://abc.xyz/ as if they acknowledge it or as a joke.

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Post by exadeci »

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…

Based on the size of the app and the interface, it's not native but some sort of webapp bundled with it's engine which means they could have done a mobile website, but my guess is that they know that if they do this no one will download the app atm.

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Post by data37 »

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…

People don't need more connectivity. Excess of anything is bad. Social networks and connectivity is already in the realm of being evil and eating away all the time from people's lives.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by goldenkey »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #263
hasenj wrote: post #261

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Basically yet another one trying to jump on the social network bandwagon.

I would argue he's not really jumping on the bandwagon considering that Orkut was one of the first social networks.

Orkut was produced by him under Google as an employee. Now he's trying to run with it again even though the whole thing is gamified and the letter is an ingenious as it gets. My guess is that he got a kickback to advertise and be the figurehead for someone elses shitty new social network. I would not be surprised if some celebs get paid off to start advertising it.

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Post by djsumdog »

kordless wrote: post #201
erlehmann_ wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real federated social platform is WordPress, which has millions of deployments and serves a quarter of the most popular websites: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management... I still remember the time around ten years ago when a lot of people had independent blogs mostly free of clickbait and advertising. Nowadays, many post on social media only.

Wordpress is not a federated platform, unless one wants to redefine federation.

RSS can be considered a federated protocol, maybe...if you stretch the definition.

With RSS, you can subscribe to feeds with any standard reader. Interestingly enough, YouTube channels all have RSS feeds, so you can subscribe to them without needing to do so via a Google account.

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