# The irony of Orkut and Wallop's platforms

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2004-03-29T14:48:16Z


Isn't it funny/interesting that Wallop, Microsoft's social networking project is built using flash, xml and sql while Orkut, Google's social network project is built using .Net and C#? Microsoft avoids being locked into the Microsoft platform while Orkut is completely locked in. hmmm... What does this mean?





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