The Last Message Sent on AIM

Re:The Last Message Sent on AIM by ridaj on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:31PM (#26305405)

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.

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Re:The Last Message Sent on AIM by soneca on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:43PM (#26305562)

I 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+

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Re:The Last Message Sent on AIM by int_19h on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:45PM (#26310100)

It did steamroll some, but others are very much holding onto their users. VK is still way more popular than FB in Russia, for example.

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