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:: Saturday, January 24th, 2004 @ 3:18:49 am

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Jeremy just sent me a link to join Orkut, Google’s friendster-killer. It’s fast, it looks good, and their HTML is probably to spec. ;) Join! They don’t spam. Or so they say. :)

| San Francisco, CA | link | trackback | Jan 24, 2004 03:18:49
  • syndromes

    Uhh… isn’t it like, invite only? If so, you gots my 411 if you’re feeling saucy :>

  • http://www.aaronlogan.com Aaron

    I learned of Orkut yesterday. Apparently, it’s named after one of the engineers who worked on the project: Orkut Buyukkokten. Good thing they didn’t use his last name, eh?

    At a new year’s party, Natalie and I decided that we would get on friendster to serve as conduits for our single friends to meet other peeps, so my experience with it is only over the last couple weeks. I don’t know if it used to be faster, but right now, calling friendster a smelly dungpile would be an insult to smelly dungpiles everywhere. Maybe Orkut will have a google server farm to handle traffic rather than the single 100MHz Pentium 1 with 128MB RAM that friendster acts like it runs on. If that’s the case, Orkut probably will kill friendster. I don’t know if this is true, but I’ve heard that google tried to buy friendster at one time, but the owners of friendster wouldn’t sell. They may end up seriously regretting that decision. :)

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  • echeng

    I don’t know Orkut personally, but he was at Stanford. Friends know him. Hear he’s a strange one. :)

  • http://aspragg.blogspot.com AdamS

    Invitation…? :)

  • http://www.jozjozjoz.com/ :: jozjozjoz ::

    Who will invite me?!

  • http://www.ihatepink.com pinkhatei

    “friendster-killer”? that’s not very friendly is it? :)

  • echeng

    that’s my name for it, cuz friendster is often so slow that it’s unusable. :)

  • Chester

    Orkut’s pretty cool. Too bad Orkut took it down for a few days to make revisions.

  • http://aspragg.blogspot.com AdamS

    Orkut goes down just when I was getting interested… bummer. Hopefully it will be back soon! (Thanks for the invite, BTW! :)

  • http://balanceinmotion.net Fred

    The problem is that Friendster is actually big enough now that it’s not entirely improbable that you can find a person with whom you’ve lost touch, or whatever. I’ve only recently been impressed by this. Originally I was like “I don’t get it …” Orkut would have to grow to be useful. And then add load to their own servers …

    Chicken, egg, orkut.

  • + w a t l e y +

    Orkut sounds like my kind of place…finally a friend site worth its salt. Um, invitation please?

  • echeng

    Found an article about orkut:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1026_.....g=nefd_pop
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