Orkut
 

I was just wondering if Orkut has penetrated into the tilted community yet.

http://www.orkut.com/about.html

It was a project done by a Google employee during the 20% "do something creative not directly related to work" time they have.

More of a curiosity thing than anything else. =) From the stats I've read, something like 1 in 1000 people in California are now in the network. *boggle* (possibly off by a few factors, but 30,000 accounts list california as their location, which has about 30,000,000 people in it).

This is like freindster i think.

Very neat concept, but freindster was laggy as hell!

http://www.friendster.com/index.jsp


If anyone wants to join freindster let me know via PM and I'll invite you :)

This is the first I've heard of this.

If you haven't yet received an invitation to join, please be patient. We'd love to immediately include everyone who wants to participate; however, we're also trying to ensure that orkut remains a close-knit community.

Hehehe...cool...an online gated community.

There was a buzz a few weeks ago, but I think people were generally unimpressed. And, at least at that time, there was no way to delist yourself.

LiveJournal was once a gated community. Invite codes were needed to join for free. But then, the LJ gods decided to open it up to everyone, and the service remained the same, if not better because of more people joining. However, this Orkut thing has a different purpose, I guess, so maybe that model will work for it better.

Blah.

It's really boring.

There's a 'Tilted Projects' community on there that I created a while back.. other than that, I've stopped using it

Orkut is a plural of a Finnish slang word for orgasm. Hence it caught my attention. Never been to that site...what's it about? Another Friendster?

Friendster is open to everyone. anyone can join friendster, and find a way to meet new people, without ever knowing anyone ourside of friendster.

To get into Orkut, you have to know someone who is already in Orkut. So you really will be connected to someone, through a person who actually knows both of you.

Neat concept. Never have been able to get into any of those sort of meeting places.

I seem to have forgotten my Orkut username. Hopefully, the password recovery email will include it.

Crap. Can someone on Orkut PM me on TFP and let me know what my username is?

It was revealed a week or so ago that Orkut is a project for a graduate student's dissertation. It was all ever about data-gathering for him. Which explains the very odd terms of service (basically everything you ever wrote or said there was theirs to do with as they please, including retransmitting, republishing, selling, etc).

Since that hit the news, the buzz has been dramatically less.

I'm on it.

It's pretty fun, and the political communities are pretty active.

If you liked the idea of friendster, but want one that works, try Orkut.

Halx, myself, and several other TFP members got on Orkut about a month ago. There's not really very much interesting about it, other than that it generates a pretty cool social network. I'm in the open-source community so it was cool to see who else knew who. And I got hooked up with a few friends who'd gotten out of reach some time ago. :)

I just logged in for the first time in a week or so. I had 9 messages in my inbox. They're (almost) all inane. Heh.

I like TFP better, for the real conversations that people try to have. ;)

Orkut was fun for about two weeks, and then it wore off. The communities are not active enough, and not too many of my friends are on it.

If anyone can send me an Orkut invite I'd be super appreciative. I've been wanting to check it out and asking around. PM me and let me know what info you need. Thanks in advance!!!