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I'm just sitting here wondering how much they paid for the domain name hello.com
Hello.com was a product of Picasa when it was acquired by Google. Given Orkut's history at Google, I assume he was able to get a good deal on it.
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…
No, I read it exactly the same way - I guess the problem is that we probably need something paradoxical - we want to connect to things we know, but also to new things, people, places and experiences. But when we want them - otherwise they're an inconvenience. I think just talking to people you meet at random will probably be a better solution. (until I get murdered by a stranger!)
If there is some way for people to "opt in" for random encounters such as Tinder, couchsurfing Meetup.com, it makes things much smoother.
What other sites are there that facilitate things happening in the real world? The MP3 experiment is perhaps my favorite.
I love how confident people seem to be that this won't be successful (the truth is I'm still shocked that airbed and breakfast was so popular ;-D). I for one don't mind a gamified version of Facebook that's about real world interaction.
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.
The new service is written in lowercase, and Orkut is the guys name, so the title should be: 'hello from Orkut'
HN capitalises the first letter of the title if I remember correctly
I must say, I loled at this: > hello is the first social network built on loves, not likes. I know that the intention is great; it's just that I automatically pictured this as a scene in "Silicon Valley" (the TV show).
"We are living in a strange time. We hide behind our devices, ignoring the people around us." So... a mobile app is the solution?