Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (2014)

Re:Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (2014) by rwmj on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:48AM (#13426241)

Yawn. mixi.jp was doing Facebook before Facebook was widely available. It even had the much-vaunted news wall. Mixi screwed themselves in a few ways, mainly by being a Japanese-only site and (later) requiring a Japanese phone number to register, but still, Facebook was hardly an innovation. Mixi was written in Perl. (In fact Mixi has/had features which even now I've never seen in social media sites, such as the "ashiato" feature where you can see who has been looking at your profile)

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Re:Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (2014) by spdionis on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @09:07AM (#13426349)

I don't think seeing who looked at your profile is a hard feature to build. Odnoklassniki (russian social website) has it.

It's obviously a conscious business decision.

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Re:Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (2014) by InitialLastName on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:08AM (#13436833)

LinkedIn, any number of dating sites, and I believe MySpace all have (had) it.

When a site is focused on "social", like MySpace or Facebook, it comes across as invasive. When a site is focused on personal "marketing", like LinkedIn or dating networks, it can more be useful feedback on your reach.

EDIT: I hate the word "creepy"

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Re:Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (2014) by aclsid on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:56AM (#13427230)

So you are saying that the Wright brothers did not innovate because Alberto Santos Dumont among others did the first experiments regarding aviation (or heavy aviation as they say)?

This is the first time in my life that I have heard about mixi.jp. Facebook was able to capture not only the US but almost the whole world for that matter. Again, dismissing those achievements as if they were nothing really does not give them proper credit.

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