Comments on: Minions Get Ready To Battle Google’s Orkut

By: valmiki

valmiki — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:42:41 +0000

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By: Binaryday

Binaryday — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:14:24 +0000

Awesome review. The problem is social network is one of those products where network effect plays a huge role. Hence the only way to take on orkut is to create a product that will spread virally. BigAdda may be doing a mistake by depending too much on advertisements to get users.

By: Renu

Renu — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:24:58 +0000

I have been a member on Orkut and Facebook for quite a while and on BigAdda as well.

I joined BigAdda bcos i really loved the ads on TV.

I think the really nice thing abt BigAdda is that they have a lot of videos and photos and now music. That effectively merges the social media side with the networking side.

As an online media professinal, I feel that Orkut & Facebook are mostly getting the seasoned, more mature audience form the internet, while BigAdda is getting more new users.

The issue BigAdda will face is that of building more networking and community activity, both are a function of how many “friends” i manage to swing over to this network. @ 3-4% internet penetration, I doubt that the networkign and community peices will grow to rival Facebook/Orkut that have primary users from markets that have over 67% [US], 40%+ [EU] internet penetration. This means that if I invite 10 friends to the site in case fo an indian site the total universe of only abt 0.3 will respond, in the US/EU scenario as many as 5-7 of them would respond. [not withstanding the other factors like whether these invitees like me enuf or not, whether they join me on BigAdda or on Facebook or Orkut and so on]

So in all i think BigAdda seems to be heading the right way, wouldnt worry abt the lack of community activity, more utility has to come in here.

Early days yet!

By: Ramar

Ramar — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:21:47 +0000

cool review. I think no one in India has it in them to compete against Orkut, let alone bigadda. Orkut is a monster.

as you said, I think to startwith bigadda is not bad. Decent site. I wouldn’t agreee with ‘Aniche’. I loved bigadda ads. pretty cool ads man.

Personally I think bigadda will be way ahead of other indian soc net site. They have the power to execute. Money is the ultimate power.

By: Aniche

Aniche — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:14:47 +0000

even their ads are crappy.although, truth be told all social networking sites suck ass!but urs is a fair review i guess!