Comments on: Former Facebook Executive Adam D’Angelo Confirms New Google Social Networking Effort

By: Is Quora, ‘The Answer’ to all Questions ? « VT’s Tech Blog

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:08:48 +0000

[...] the buzz around GMail when it was launched.Quora was co-founded in 2009 by Adam D’Angelo (from Facebook) and Charlie Cheever; and soon they began attracting big names like Dustin Moskowitz (Facebook [...]

By: Corey McMahon

Corey McMahon — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:45:35 +0000

Google definitely have the internal resources and smarts to pull this off. Hopefully they learned some important lessons from the failure that was ‘Buzz’.

By: With Slide Acquisition, Google Continues Building a Credible Social Threat to Facebook

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:09:11 +0000

[...] to use in creating a credible social platform rival to Facebook. The product is still unclear, sounding something like a combination of Facebook’s home page and profile features and a developer [...]

By: Luigi

Luigi — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:47:25 +0000

Orkut is a place of brazilians and fake profiles. Orkut sucks!

By: Wörterrauschen im Blogger-Sphere « project-LEV

Wörterrauschen im Blogger-Sphere « project-LEV — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:57:07 +0000

[...] Adam D’Angelo, Gründer des Q*A Dienstes Quora ist es ein “echtes Projekt”, was von Google CEO Eric Schmidt [...]

By: Wörterrauschen im Blogger-Sphere « project-LEV

Wörterrauschen im Blogger-Sphere « project-LEV — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:09:24 +0000

[...] Adam D’Angelo, Gründer des Q*A Dienstes Quora ist es ein “echtes Projekt”, was von Google CEO Eric Schmidt [...]

By: What Would It Take to Get You to Leave Facebook for Google Me? | 40Tech

What Would It Take to Get You to Leave Facebook for Google Me? | 40Tech — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:02:43 +0000

[...] on Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech, Rose repeated the assertion. Then, SF Weekly and a former Facebook executive also confirmed that their sources had provided the same [...]

By: Stephen McCurry

Stephen McCurry — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:07:50 +0000

Don’t Google already have a social network – Orkut?

Facebook have proved that social networks are a natural monopoly. Switching costs are high and viral growth rules.

Google are going to have to do something really radical to stop Facebooks social graph becoming even more integral to online activity.

By: Phil Bronstein: Is the Next Hot Social Media Site "Real Life?" | Blog All Over The World.com

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:10:28 +0000

[...] Google is taking another shot at social networking, after earlier efforts fizzled. Their model, says Quora's Adam D'Angelo, is…Facebook. Which is hugely successful but also digitally sterile. No need to meet that old [...]

By: Google Me – Loadingdata | Daniel Bos

Google Me – Loadingdata | Daniel Bos — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:01:22 +0000

[...] general consensus on the different tech-blogs (Gizmodo, InsideFacebook, Huffington Post, and others) is not very favourable as to the success of a Google Social Network, [...]