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"I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"

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Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"

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Post by brandong »

shaddi wrote: post #26
danilocampos wrote: post #3

The website actually exists, too: http://globalcommunity.me/ It's worth checking out. It's almost as though someone built this as an object lesson in the horrors of losing focus. This idea is terrible – and the design tells you all you need. Look at all that. It's like a piñata full of services exploded all over their homepage. Wal-Mart also has one of the worst customer experiences ever – so we can snark all we want…

You can even watch a video from the founder on their "videos" section. http://www.globalcommunity.me/videos/video/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/Cedrick751

More videos about the site in his youtube account. I feel a little bad for the guy...

Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"

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Post by darinpantley »

jacoblyles wrote: post #17
jballanc wrote: post #2

That's easy: This person has no idea why Walmart is successful. Walmart's success has little to nothing to do with convenience. It has everything to do with economies of scale, being able to apply pressure to your suppliers, and efficient inventory tracking and prediction. The proposed website benefits from none of these...

I disagree. In the physical world, a "one-stop shop" like Walmart adds value because it costs time to travel between many different stores. What our author fails to realize is that there are already "one-stop shops" on the web: namely Google and Bing.

Even if you have to go through the arduous task of typing a website into your browser's address bar to get from YouTube to eBay, it's still a fraction of the effort required to get from Ace Hardware to Target, no matter how close the stores are situated to each other. The Internet doesn't need a one-stop shop as badly as "real life".

If that was THE website to go to for all of the services they offer, saving a couple seconds of typing might be advantageous. But they're not. Why should people switch? It's not particularly superior, as far as I can tell.

I applaud the effort, but will most likely never use it, and I doubt I'm alone.

Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"

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Post by darinpantley »

VBprogrammer wrote: post #23
msquared wrote: post #11

Holy hell... I thought I was a scope creeper...

Actually, he has come up with an ingenious way of avoiding scope creep...start off intending to do everything !

I'm sure they have more features planned.

Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"

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Post by megablast »

Legion wrote: post #15

Here's a hint, dear webmaster. If you find yourself saying things like, "I am shocked that no other website has thought of doing this", you're probably missing something.

You have a point, but lets be glad Larry, Sergei, Zucker did not let that stop them.

Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"

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Post by secret »

OK, I felt compelled to check some of the source. Aside from references to tripod.com and every js library out there, here's what I saw where there were credits:

Auction: Professional Auction Script Software by PHP Pro Bid

Microblogging: scritter

Classifieds: not sure, source credits BearBones.us (which accepts barter: http://bearbones.us/index.php?p=1_14_Barter)

Social Network: partuza

Dating: not sure, but seems to be the same script running webtryst based on a quick google search

Jobs: scribble

Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"

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Post by krakensden »

megablast wrote: post #36
Legion wrote: post #15

Here's a hint, dear webmaster. If you find yourself saying things like, "I am shocked that no other website has thought of doing this", you're probably missing something.

You have a point, but lets be glad Larry, Sergei, Zucker did not let that stop them.

There were search engines before Google, and social networks before Facebook- Google had better algorithms, Facebook had a better UX.

Re: "I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"

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Post by krakensden »

Legion wrote: post #15

Here's a hint, dear webmaster. If you find yourself saying things like, "I am shocked that no other website has thought of doing this", you're probably missing something.

He's not even right- he's basically just made a Yahoo clone.
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