Is cloning Facebook in Django feasible?

[Olzhas....@gmail.com]

Is it possible to develop a Facebook functional clone in Django? What
parts of it are provided out of the box? Any third-party contributions?

[James Bennett]

On 7/27/07, Olzhas....@gmail.com <Olzhas....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to develop a Facebook functional clone in Django? What
> parts of it are provided out of the box? Any third-party contributions?

This is like going to a company that sells construction equipment and
saying "is it possible to build a copy of the Empire State Building
with your tools?" ;)

Yes, it's possible. But it's going to be a lot of work, it's going to
take a lot of time and there's already an Empire State Building that
people know and love, so people are left asking exactly what it is
that the cloning project would accomplish...

--
"Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct."

[Olzhas....@gmail.com]

a localised version would make sense in a country where people mostly
don't speak English

On 27 июл, 19:55, "James Bennett" <ubernost...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Duc Nguyen]

You can clone facebook in any programming language using any framework
you want. Django is one of the many frameworks which you can use to do
it.

And yes, facebook has been cloned in other countries, many, many times.
The most famous one is from china: http://xiaonei.com/ Not only did
they clone the features, they cloned the interface. It even got
acquired for lots of money.

[John DeRosa]

Ick! Why would you want to? Isn't one facebook in the world enough? :-)

[Duc Nguyen]

John DeRosa wrote:
> Ick! Why would you want to? Isn't one facebook in the world enough? :-)
>

One facebook in america is enough. There is plenty of room for
competition in other countries.

[James Bennett]

On 7/27/07, Duc Nguyen <d...@nuggien.com> wrote:
> One facebook in america is enough. There is plenty of room for
> competition in other countries.

Yes, but a straight-up clone of Facebook isn't the way to do it.

Facebook succeeded because it chose a specific target market and
oriented itself to that target market; in this case, the market was
American college students from (mostly) affluent backgrounds. In other
countries the market will be different, and so simply "cloning"
Facebook likely won't result in a site that's appealing enough to the
target market in that country (if you target students, for example,
you must deal with the fact that the educational system and culture
vary widely from one country to another). You also have to face the
likelihood of competitors -- Orkut in Brazil, for example -- and be
prepared not to say "we're just like that other site", but to say
"here's how we're different from that other site, and why we're
better".

[Michael Elsdoerfer]

> And yes, facebook has been cloned in other countries, many, many times.
> The most famous one is from china: http://xiaonei.com/ Not only did
> they clone the features, they cloned the interface. It even got
> acquired for lots of money.

Or in Germany StudiVZ, which also got acquired. As some server path-leaks in
PHP errors revealed, they apparently called their app "Fakebook" internally,
which I thought was kind of clever ;)

Michael

[Duc Nguyen]

James Bennett wrote:
> On 7/27/07, Duc Nguyen <d...@nuggien.com> wrote:
>
>> One facebook in america is enough. There is plenty of room for
>> competition in other countries.
>>
>

> Yes, but a straight-up clone of Facebook isn't the way to do it.and be prepared not to say "we're just like that other site", but to say

> "here's how we're different from that other site, and why we're
> better"

I'd say the fact that you are available in the local language is enough
of a difference :) But it does help to be from the country and know the
culture of your users and what they want etc.