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I wouldn't romanticize Orkut. It wasn't that great and I think Facebook would've steamrolled it all the same, much as it did numerous other regional social netw
by ridaj 6y ago
I wouldn't romanticize Orkut. It wasn't that great and I think Facebook would've steamrolled it all the same, much as it did numerous other regional social networks around the world.
- soneca 6y agoI think the causality is that it was not great because Google did not care about improving it. So it got stuck in time and then Facebook kept improving. Even a strategy of copying Facebook’s innovations (like FB does in Instagram and WhatsApp) would an improvement. Of course we will never know, but I think that betting on Orkut would have a better chance of facing Facebook than starting from scratch with Google+
- int_19h 6y agoIt did steamroll some, but others are very much holding onto their users. VK is still way more popular than FB in Russia, for example.