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

[yummyfajitas]

Google already did clone facebook.

http://www.orkut.com

[bombs → yummyfajitas]

Orkut launched two weeks before Facebook.

[stcredzero → bombs]

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

[chengas123 → stcredzero]

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.

[stcredzero → chengas123]

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.)