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ORKUT!!!!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Not this again. Friendster of 2004, I gather?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it actually works.... want an invite?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got one kicking around already, thanks. But how does it work, then? Or do you mean it doesn't seize up every two minutes?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

JON THE ASSMASTER wants to be your friend!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm on Orkut. But the name is terrible, and Friendster has been behaving better.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

friends with this guy?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

checked friendster the other day: still very slow for me.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

there's so many of these things now: tribe, orkut, myspace, friendzy.

nowadays all the action's on myspace. tribe and orkut just haven't been doing it for, don't have the time to build up 4 and 5 different networks.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

don't orkut make marine bearings?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought they killed roaches

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

It's like Ubik.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The "communities" thing is sort of interesting. So that actually might now be unique to orkut; I haven't logged onto friendster in a while, do they have communities now?

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

tribe had them first and they are obviously more fleshed out there. friendzy has them too but that name bugs me.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

oh god, the ROVO community is full of cute japanese hipster girls wtf ::((((

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

did Momus invite them?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

No, Momus likes and makes crappy music!

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

about me: i'm rock star. i'm cover of wire magazine. no johnny cash, i'm man in black. i'm orkut community. cool.

WHO AM I?

answer

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I want an invite.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I just invited you, Mel.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bi-curious", Jon?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

After reading this thread and their about page it seems orkut was designed to accomodate people at large and their different ‘lifestyles’ (good x-post, that) but I have heard it was made to be google's cashcow, a slashdot like social network system mainly for I.T. pros, anyone have heard about this?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds like hell on erf

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Um. I don't know abuot IT pros, but I think it did help my friend get laid.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

OH NO I'M GAY

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

more google conspiracy please! "they pretended orkut was a grassroot thing but they lied! they aren't cool anymore etc"

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

They pretended it was a conspiracy but they lied! It was exactly what it claimed to be all along! The bastards!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just heard betty crocker was in charge of this project, in her spare time, yes, but *on the job* at google inc so that would make you right, maybe.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I want in!! Pleeeez...
The homepage is so soothing and makes me feel all fuzzy..

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Orkut is rub dude!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,64046,00.html?tw=rss.BIZ

A small social networking software company filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that much of the source code behind Orkut.com, the search engine's popular social service, was stolen by a former engineer.
In its lawsuit, Affinity Engines, based in Palo Alto, California, said engineer Orkut Buyukkokten illegally took the code the he had written for the company -- which he co-founded -- with him when he joined Google. Affinity Engines also claimed that Buyukkokten promised Affinity Engines that he wouldn't develop a competing social network service for Google. Affinity Engines, which filed the claim on May 25 in Santa Clara Superior Court, is seeking unspecified damages and royalties.

I'm going to wager that this is BS.

― ex machina (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

I noticed someone mentioning Orkut today, for the first time in years. Apparently, it not only still exists, but there are more than 67 million members! (Facebook: more than 34 million , MySpace: more than 200 million - all according to wikipedia)

So, how come I don't hear more about it?

― StanM, Sunday, 30 September 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

because you don't live in Asia

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

or south america

― Heave Ho, Sunday, 30 September 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. I had no idea. Thanks and sorry for the useless revive :-)

― StanM, Sunday, 30 September 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

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