Cloning Is Lame. Google Should Do It To Facebook Anyway.

Re:Cloning Is Lame. Google Should Do It To Facebook Anyway. by yummyfajitas on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @08:48AM (#1471183)

Google already did clone facebook.

http://www.orkut.com

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Re:Cloning Is Lame. Google Should Do It To Facebook Anyway. by bombs on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @09:22AM (#1471277)

Orkut launched two weeks before Facebook.

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Re:Cloning Is Lame. Google Should Do It To Facebook Anyway. by stcredzero on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @09:29AM (#1471299)

They could Re-architect Orkut so that it can run P2P and give the result to Diaspora.

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Re:Cloning Is Lame. Google Should Do It To Facebook Anyway. by chengas123 on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @10:24AM (#1471485)

I'm so sick of hearing about Diaspora. These kids don't have any product yet and as far as I can tell there is no reason to expect what they're building will be successful.

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Re:Cloning Is Lame. Google Should Do It To Facebook Anyway. by stcredzero on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @10:52AM (#1471580)

These kids don't have any product yet and as far as I can tell there is no reason to expect what they're building will be successful.

Most of the challenge will be in marketing. If they can get a hipster fringe to adopt it and give them real value, they can use this to bootstrap themselves. (Much as Facebook did with the college crowd.)

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