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Here is a post from an insider giving some of his oppinions about what's going on:

http://media.orkut.com/articles/0100.html

Don't forget Orkut, a lousy Friendster/Tribe clone which is Brazil's #1 source of server errors.

Orkut is only "in affiliation with Google," but Google mentioned it in a presentation to prospective shareholders, so it's fair game.

Given that similar policies have gone(hint: "trusted friends" is really an euphemism for something else related to where Orkut came from) on in other places in that area of the States, why is this surprising? At least somebody accurately hits the nail on the head on this kind of issue - where else do you get such arrogance that results in good code being sacrificed for California style political games, where you win by excluding the most people while presenting the best facade to the public of what you do.
Sure, there is more than a shred of validity of checking code, but when you use politics instead of quality to determine what goes in, it's not a meritocracy anymore, it's not even about the code. At that point, things like the Xorg/XFree86 split and the various BSD splits happen. Not minor code forks, but major splits.

To preempt you nuts who think nothing can be forced, fine. You just mindlessly confuse theory and practice as being the same in any situation regardless of politics, especially if it deals with places too exclusionary for their own good.

On the first part, you probably mean the folks down at Berkeley (if that could count). On the second, Google, known for hiring too many of these kind of uppity folk who pull off stunts such as this make me think that they're not the type that have the mindset to do so. Given their lack of anything that doesnt exclude people deliberately, it is safe to say Stanford, Google and Orkut are just different departments working towards the same goal - to be closed minded and closed to all who arent bluebloods.

It is insightful if you get an eyefull of the hot women. Like for instance..

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And yes- you can get to know people enough to get free places to stay if you want to visit.

It is insightful if you get an eyefull of the hot women. Like for instance..

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And yes- you can get to know people enough to get free places to stay if you want to visit.

It is insightful if you get an eyefull of the hot women. Like for instance..

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And yes- you can get to know people enough to get free places to stay if you want to visit.

It is insightful if you get an eyefull of the hot women. Like for instance..

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And yes- you can get to know people enough to get free places to stay if you want to visit.

and let them know how much their project Orkut utterly stinks?

If I was Google I would have those developers all sacked, hire a new agency and have that shitty piece of software all re-written in anything but .NET (PHP would be a good choice)

Orkut's lameness brings Google such a bad image.

and let them know how much their project Orkut utterly stinks?

If I was Google I would have those developers all sacked, hire a new agency and have that shitty piece of software all re-written in anything but .NET (PHP would be a good choice)

Orkut's lameness brings Google such a bad image.

I liked Froogle the first time around, when it was called Yahoo! Shopping. (There are lots of other sites that do the same thing, too.)

Google Image Search is nothing unique, and it often fails on anything more complex than a person's name.

If Google can't come up with anything better than Yet Another Web Mail Service and Yet Another Social Networking Site, they'll teeter dangerously over the cliff of irrelevancy in 2005. It's hard to get revved up over yet more mergers and acquisitions, an amazingly-inflated stock price, and ugly downgrades with a "BETA" logo slapped on top.

Like C#Develop
Like Enterprise Manager

Because .NET is so piss easy to program.
I mean you get more enthusiasm of people joining projects and submitting code.
I mean how many of us can submit code to GIMP or code filters?

What about Open Office have you seen their perverse "VB" - how stupidly unintituive? How can company-apps be easily migrated? That is not Open Basic that is sick-Java mutated
But again because .NET is so slow and fails to be truly manageable on a larger scale (take Orkut for example) projects like this may die soon. Microsoft constantly changing the protocols and APIs doesn't help much either..

Still there are some absolutely IDIOTIC companies migrating their win32 apps to .NET - are you mad ???

Microsoft is like a mediocre daddy .. ah so many promises.

Well, it seems Google felt comfortable dealing with people of equally exclusive nature. When they start indexing colleges that dont require your soul(Yale+Harvard), $20k/year(all of them), or a bribe to the right person to get in(Stanford+MIT), Google will be doing no evil. But since their background precedes them, you might as well count them on doing evil, even if it looks like misplaced philantrophy.

"Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat."

Frankly, I'd rather have a Google IM client (with a Google searchable archive of logs) than a broken social networking service.

Orkut was mentioned in Google's pre-IPO presentation to prospective investors. Google is obviously proud enough of it to showcase it to investors, but from a usability standpoint it is absolute garbage.

Orkut is another Google project still in beta, and I'm surprised a) how friggin slow the site is and b) how problematic routine tasks like logging in are. Nearly half the time I try to log in I get a runtime error.

Now I realise the server(s) are under stress with the growing population of Orkutites, but come on, the amount of problems makes me wonder how seriously they want to make this social networking scheme work.

Btw, the only way you can join Orkut is by invitation. Ask me and I'll endorse your membership.

www.orkut.com
and
www.okcupid.com

For friends or dating.

Well, it probably hurt that you werent some uppity Stanfordite. No wonder you got kicked out. It's one thing to have preference as a person to their college, it's another to base your entire company around the people from there and the practices of said university. Given how Google was, it's no surprise we have some of their side jobs as they are. Uppity people in need of a constant humbling.

With Google Groups 2, Gmail, and Orkut, Google has proven that they have three distinguishing characteristics in any new marketplace.

1. People who know JavaScript well.
2. Server errors.
3. A legion of fans who brush away the server errors by saying "It's BETA! What do you expect?!"

A year from now, when My Google and Google Messenger launch, Google will be nothing other than a less graphical, more geeky version of Yahoo!. The Slashdot crowd will tire of the new sell-out "evil" Google and move on to another search engine. I suggest Teoma. It's unpopular, so it must be good.

Google seems to be expanding with their own projects, but I'm betting it will be a while before they start buying up outside companies like this

How is this more than a zip-code structured Orkut community system? Besides pre-defining the communities before any participants arrive, it's really not.

How CAN you improve on the orkut-style social networking system?

1. Dont be so DAMN slow. Friendster, orkut, etc are all so slow at this point it's almost worthless. They all start off fast but load kills them.

2. Create an easy 'port' system whereby you can just 'point' the new site at an existing profile to have the new profile auto-created and friends added automatically. Filling out 4 page profiles and spamming your friends multiple times a year = no fun.

Well, since it's invitation only. . . how is anyone without an invite supposed to know? Orkut's about page makes NO mention of a blogging feature. It specifically states that it is "an online community website designed for friends" and a "social network".

Satoshi doesn't seem to be making blanket assumptions, but provisional ones that could be based on information available on the Orkut website. (You'll have to ask him where he got his information.)

Cool your jets, big boy. Nobody has been pissing in your cornflakes, at least not here.

Speaking of 2D deathmatch, I found Jump'n'Bump very fun and skillish.
I even supports four people playing on the same computer! I tried with three. It's cute and full of gibs and blood.
It's also on Orkut.

I commented about Iran being number 3 on orkut a month ago today. My comment still stands - I wouldn't classify it as a "very repressive police-state", I think you have to visit yourself to see, and being French it is easy for you to visit. And even without being an orkut member you can see that those 6.05% are all IN Iran (of 929,894 right now).

It is official; Netcraft confirms: English is dying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered English speaking community when Slashdot confirmed that English use has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Orkut members. Coming on the heels of a recent Slashdot poll which plainly states that English has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. English is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Orkut census.

You don't need a foreskin to predict English's future. The hand writing is on the wall: English faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for English because English is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, English continues to be lost in the Portuguese babble. Long vowels and hard consonants crumple like Volkswagens facing the SUV juggernaut which is Brazil.
American English is the most endangered of them all, having been overwhelmed by 93% of all Brazilians. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time American English scholars Daniel Webster and Noam Chomsky only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: American English is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.Theo, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, states that there are 350,000 speakers of American English. How many speakers of Portuguese are there? Let's see. The number of English versus Portuguese posts on Orkut is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 350000/5 = 70000 Portuguese speakers. Japanese posts on Orkut are about half of the volume of Portuguese posts. Therefore there are about 35000 speakers of English. A recent article put
Portuguese at about 80 percent of the Orkut market. Therefore there are (70000+5000+700)*4 = 302800 Brazilians! This is consistent with the number of Orkut messages to English speaking groups.

Due to the troubles of Google, abysmal sales and so on, America went out of business and was taken over by Canada who speak two dying languages. Now Canada is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that English has steadily declined in users. English is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If English is to survive at all it will be among Minnesotans and survivalist groups hunkered down in Montana. English continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, English is dead.

Fact: English is dying

like THIS!

This Orcut thingy, therefore, may be good or bad, but since they are a closed (secret) society I see no way to judge it. I just walk away, not to be back any time soon.

O SAO PAULO, Brasil (Reuters) - Brasil butted as cabeças com os estados unidos este ano nas edições que variam dos subsídios do algodão à guerra em Iraq. Mas talvez nenhuma das batalhas foi assim que pessoal como essa que está sendo lutado no Internet. Os milhares dos brasileiros têm os devotoes tornados de Orkut (http://www.orkut.com), um local novo popular do social-social-networking do líder Google Inc da busca da correia fotorreceptora. Orkut permite que os membros organizem-se em comunidades em linha dos amigos, e dos amigos dos amigos, para discutir tudo do chess aos sanduíches. Mas as arremetidas dos brasileiros para juntar Orkut e locais sociais do networking do rival viraram alguns usuários em linha, que se queixam de um proliferation das mensagens afixadas no português, lingüeta nativa de Brazil's. Alguns usuários começaram mesmo comunidades especificamente para que os povos arejem seus gripes nesta edição. Os estados unidos têm ao menos 153 milhão usuários do Internet, comparados com o Brazil's 20 milhões. Ainda, os brasileiros ditos Orkut dominaram seu roster da sociedade em junho, outnumbering americanos para a primeira vez. O local diz que tem mais de 769.000 membros, fazendo lhe um do maior e mais popular de seu tipo no Internet. Aproximadamente 23.5 por cento dos usuários são dos estados unidos, quando outros 41.2 por cento forem brasileiros. Iranians são um terceiro lugar distante em aproximadamente 6 por cento.

SOCIEDADE SELETIVA Orkut, nomeado após a Software Engineer Orkut de Google Buyukkokten, feito seu debut em janeiro e está ainda nos estágios testando. A parte de seu fascínio é seu exclusivity -- um pode somente juntar no invitation de um outro membro. o "Orkut traça o prestige social de one's, e os brasileiros são pela natureza gregarious, " Beth dito Saad, um professor na universidade da escola do sao Paulo's das comunicações e de artes. Embora mais de um quarto dos brasileiros vivam na pobreza, aqueles que podem ter recursos para o acesso do Internet têm surfers de correia fotorreceptora avid tornados. Nos termos do tempo gastados no Internet, os brasileiros afiaram para fora dos estados unidos em maio para o segundo mês em uma fileira, de acordo com Ibope/NetRatings. O investigador de mercado estima que o uso do Internet para brasileiros calculou a média de 13 horas e de 51 minutos em maio, oito minutos mais do que para americanos. O número de visitantes brazilian aos locais da comunidade e aos diários em linha levantou-se 14.6 por cento a 3.5 milhões em maio de janeiro, Ibope/NetRatings dito. Tammy Soldaat, um canadense, começou uma amostra do wrath brazilian recentemente quando afixou uma mensagem que pergunta se seu local da comunidade na perfuração do corpo deve ser exclusivo povoar quem falam o inglês. Os usuários brazilian de Orkut etiquetaram-na rapidamente um "nazi" e "xenophobe." "After que eu compreendi porque todos se está queixando sobre estes povos, porque they're que está sendo chamado o 'plague de Orkut, "' disse em um local chamado o brasileiro "Crazy Invasion." John Gibbs do Mountain View, Califórnia, fundou uma comunidade chamada o "So muitos brasileiros em Orkut." "When o usuário de Orkut da média vai olhar listas da comunidade para ver para fora what's lá, he'll vêem uma lista povoada com muito bonito todas as comunidades portuguese, " Gibbs dito. os "This estão frustrando altamente desde que Orkut não é um service." brazilian; Mas Mateus Reis, um publicist que viva no sao Paulo, os usuários ditos deve estar livre escrever o que querem, na língua de seu escolher. "Since nós podemos convidar qualquer um que nós queremos em Orkut, e meus amigos são brasileiros, ele doesn't fazem o sentido falando a eles em inglês, " Reis d

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil has butted heads with the United States this year on issues ranging from cotton subsidies to the war in Iraq .

But perhaps none of the battles has been so personal as the one being fought on the Internet.

Thousands of Brazilians have become devotees of Orkut (http://www.orkut.com), a popular new social-networking site from Web search leader Google Inc.

Orkut allows members to organize themselves into online communities of friends, and friends of friends, to discuss everything from chess to sandwiches.

But the rush of Brazilians to join Orkut and rival social networking sites has upset some online users, who complain of a proliferation of messages posted in Portuguese, Brazil's native tongue.

Some users have even started communities specifically for people to air their gripes on this issue.

The United States has at least 153 million Internet users, compared with Brazil's 20 million. Still, Orkut said Brazilians dominated its membership roster in June, outnumbering Americans for the first time.

The site says it has more than 769,000 members, making it one of the largest and most popular of its type on the Internet. About 23.5 percent of the users are from the United States, while another 41.2 percent are Brazilians.

Iranians are a distant third place at about 6 percent.

SELECTIVE MEMBERSHIP

Orkut, named after Google software engineer Orkut Buyukkokten, made its debut in January and is still in the testing stages. Part of its allure is its exclusivity -- one can only join at the invitation of another member.

"Orkut maps one's social prestige, and Brazilians are by nature gregarious," said Beth Saad, a professor at the University of Sao Paulo's School of Communications and Arts.

Although more than one-fourth of Brazilians live in poverty, those who can afford Internet access have become avid Web surfers.

In terms of time spent on the Internet, Brazilians edged out the United States in May for the second month in a row, according to Ibope/NetRatings. The market researcher estimates that Internet use for Brazilians averaged 13 hours and 51 minutes in May, eight minutes more than for Americans.

The number of Brazilian visitors to community sites and online diaries rose 14.6 percent to 3.5 million in May from January, Ibope/NetRatings said.

Tammy Soldaat, a Canadian, got a sample of Brazilian wrath recently when she posted a message asking whether her community site on body piercing should be exclusive to people who speak English.

Brazilian Orkut users quickly labeled her a "nazi" and "xenophobe."

"After that I understood why everyone is complaining about these people, why they're being called the 'plague of Orkut,"' she said in a site called "Crazy Brazilian Invasion."

John Gibbs of Mountain View, California, has founded a community called "So many Brazilians on Orkut."

"When the average Orkut user goes to look at community listings to see what's out there, he'll see a list populated with pretty much all Portuguese communities," Gibbs said. "This is highly frustrating since Orkut is not a Brazilian service."

But Mateus Reis, a publicist who lives in Sao Paulo, said users should be free to write what they want, in the language of their choosing.

"Since we can invite anyone we want at Orkut, and my friends are Brazilians, it doesn't make sense talking to them in English," Reis said in Portuguese. "I use the language I know."

His compatriot Pablo Miyazawa has a more moderate view.

"Brazilians have the right to create anything they want in any language they want," Miyazawa said. "The problem is to invade forums with specific languages and write in Portuguese. Brazilians are still learning how to behave in the Net."

AN INTERNET FORCE

The Brazilians' ardor for the Internet extends to other community-based sites, and Web ent

The New York Times first opened up their archives to the bloggers over a year ago. At the time, I really wondered why the Grey Lady would give it away like that. Kowtowing to the blogosphere (barf), while ruthlessly nickel-and-diming all the poor schlubs who just wanted to do some research or get their work done.

But now it makes perfect sense! They were in it for the PageRank(TM)! (At least they didn't resort to a lawsuit, unlike these guys!)

However, in view of the upcoming IPO and Google's increasing attempts to work their grubby little fingers into every facet of your life, you have to wonder if Google is gaining more power than any publicly traded mega-corporation should have.

Better yet- the Bukkake Community on Orkut:

http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=43375

The community theme poem:

I like bukkake!
I like bukkake!

I'm a lucky for your love!
I like a fucky!
You like a funky!
I like bukkake!

Oooooooh.... Bukkakeeeee....
Oooooooooh... Bukkakeeeee....

I don't know too many software engineers that don't keep at least a library of souce code from one development job to another, regardless of the "rules". However, it seems really bold to me to say your not going to create a competing service and then create one that is named after you.

TODA SUA BASE EH NOSSA!

Iran: I throw this in for contrast. If a US citizen/resident alien, your biggest problem will be explaining yourself to Uncle Sam. Consult with an attorney to make darn sure you aren't in conflict with US economic restrictions on trade with Iran before you go. Don't hit on local women, bad mouth Islam or the government, or take pictures of any thing that even resembles a government or military installation. In fact, this is more of a normal overseas posting, so it's not nearly as lucrative. There are some up to date tourist guide books on the country, and good poop from the British and Australian Embassy web sites.

I'm an Australian who lived in Iran from March 2002 to October 2003. I don't think I was ever in any physical danger - I don't see why it would rate hazard pay now. I mean, people, we're talking about the third biggest country on orkut, where women post pictures of themselves without hijab and everyone lists their drinking frequency. Many Westerners have strange misimpressions about the place, and the Western media typically emphasise only aspects that stand out, not everyday life. Because of this, I have to come to believe and tell others that the only way to understand Iran is to visit personally.

Google owns Orkut, Blogger.com, the largest search engine on the 'net, and is now offering free, high quality web-based email accounts with a gig of storage. Except for a few lone voices, I haven't seen any serious discussion about why this huge corporation is spending so much resources on providing these services for free.

The advertising revenue couldn't possibly amount to a significant fraction of the costs involved with these services. The value must lie in the personal information that people are donating to Google, Inc.. What are their plans for it? They obviously plan to datamine it - but how will and how can it be used? What new knowledge can be generated by correlating and cross-referencing your orkut, blogger, gmail and google search information?

It is troublesome that it seems to be popular and hip to be totally unconcerned about privacy. Attitudes like "we have none anyways" seem to prevail, and its funny to criticize those who voice some concern as tinfoil-hat-black-helicopter-seeing schitzos. It looks like people have forgotten that privacy matters. Like many other companies that try to collect personal information, Google's privacy policy is subject to change at any time. This makes it almost meaningless! It is effectively the same as saying, "We respect your privacy right at this moment, so have complete trust in us. Tomorrow we might change our minds."

It must be a wonderful discussion, because as pointed out by Nathan himself: It's a safe place to rant without being contradicted by apologists, toadies, people worried about their unwise career choices, or even facts.

Anyone who wants to join Orkut, but hasn't gotten an invite, please post your (spam-mangled) email address, and you'll get an invite. They do take awhile though (I've sent two out so far, and only one has appeared, so give it time). So go ahead, post away.

Just make it obvious how to demangle your email address. They also want your first and last names, you can give me real ones, or I'll just fill them in with something fake (you can change it later).

• I believe Gmail came directly out of somone's "free time" - I'll try to find the article...

The company who puts a cookie on your computer that doesn't expire until 2038, has the ability to see lots of personal information about you, and who is interested in storing and indexing all of your email correspondance until the end of time, now wants to index my hard drive for me?

Call me paranoid, and mod me down because I'm sharing a negative opinion of Google, but I don't think I'm going to be giving this same company the ability to sift through my entire hard drive.

I think the best way to keep the RIAA out would be to have filesharing networks based upon social networks (like orkut). You trade with your 'trusted' friends and their 'trusted' friends. You could set how many hops you were willing to spread.

This is what you get when the staff's doing it the Stanford way, thanks to Orkut. Orkut started the whole "invite and hype" model with the service of same name, and continues this policy today under Gmail. If anything, it'd do good to come clean before people who have enough clout to force it to happen, no matter what your euphemism or excuse is, given your common denominator. Obviously, they need to read up on true security, versus putting the backbone of things on close circles that are easily broken when people start bragging about them. Refer to Operation Fastlink, something that would definitely clean house out of Orkut, and Google if applied to them. If you are going to run a private service, dont advertise.

The thing that gives me the heeby geebies about Google is how they make all of this look so effortless. Okurit just sort of popped out of the open one day. gMail appeared on April 1 with such an "effortless" air about it all that Google didn't even bother to take the press release seriously.

BTW, it's Orkut. Google is showing themselves as having excellent business and marketing savvy by putting out the press release on April Fool's Day. What better way to stir up speculation and cause a lot of buzz by releasing something which sounds like it could be a joke, or it just might be true. They probably received much more exposure by releasing a flippant press release on April 1st which turned out to be true, compared to various other companies which only had various pranks.

I think you can safely put the tinfoil hat away. Google's business is quite clear. Have an awesome search engine and other services. Charge advertisers for listings. It's basically eBay in a search engine. eBay gets a lot more revenue from each transaction than Google does, but Google makes it up bigtime on volume.

The gigabyte of storage sounds like a big deal, but really it's not. 100MB and a decent spam blocker would also equate to a "lifetime" of e-mails for anyone whose e-mail is sufficiently unimportant that they use a free-as-in-beer service.

The searchability and management of the thing is the key.

I know lots of people who use free e-mail, and a lot of my friends have "free" e-mail on one of my servers. Not one of them is geeky enough to even use folders.

If Google can leverage the search technology and come up with a better UI than their Orkult Dating Service, they're home free. I've not yet checked out Gmail personally, but it seems obvious they will need a different search concept than they use in Google.com - and I wouldn't be surprised if it was based on what they do for their corporate intranet customers.

I think they've probably gotten the message about creepy AdWords, so I don't expect you will see Viagra ads when you're reading your love mails. And as for seeing travel agency ads when you're discussing your next trip, I think people will get used to that very quickly.

Of course this will bring forth a whole new breed of spam: messages designed to show up in your Gmail searches. But hey, no free lunch...

Anyway that's my four Forints. Off to RTFA now...

true, but google seems to be the one company that has managed to really make money with advertising on the internet. consider their constant creativity and innovation in what they provide the users and realize that they do the same thing for their customers- the advertisers, as well as themselves. I'm sure they've worked out how to make advertising profit them as much as possible, just like they've figured out how to do it without pissing users off. The reason gmail will be wildly profitable for them is that they'll have the same non-intrusive AdWords/AdSense ads based on a scan of the words in your e-mail. I'll take that- they'll probably be extremely successful at blocking spam.

I imagine the client interface will also be as fast and powerful as google, too. A lot of the reason why I've hated web-based e-mail in the past is that (at least with a lot of the larger services like yahoo and microsoft) they're f'in SLOW. Google has the server infrastructure to make it fast, and because they'll be using text-based ads and probably a google-esqe lightweight interface it may just be faster than using Outlook on my desktop.

I'm sure their other incentive is that this would give them a lot more information to work with. Consider their creation of Orkut- they want more info to tie together. Having your e-mail means having who you e-mail. Sort of an auto-social-networking tool... I'm sure they'll figure out more cool stuff to do with the information they get from your e-mail.

The only question is- can they be trusted?

There's a discussion about this discussion over in the Gmail community at Orkut.com.

There's a discussion about this discussion over in the Gmail community at Orkut.com.

It's surprising one can even survive to 10 cups of coffee, when most coffee is contaminated with DHMO.

For those who are not aware of the dangers of this substance, dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO.
Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Exposition to it gaseous form may cause burns, permanent scars and even death.

Symptoms of DHMO ingestion include sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance.
For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Dihydrogen monoxide is also known as hydroxyl acid, and is the major component of acid rain. It has been found that malignant cancer cells only develop in its presence.

The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation.". It's commonly used as an industrial solvent and coolant, as a fire retardant, in the distribution of pesticides, in abortion clinics,and lots more.

I created a community against DHMO in Orkut. You're all invited to join it.

You can also check the official Dihydrogen Monoxide FAQ

I need Charlenes here people. Claires. Colettes. Tortured twentysomething souls who lean forward in sleazy web cam shots just to show a little cleavage.

I think you're looking for Orkut.

Some days ago I created an Orkut community named Coalition Against DHMO.

You're all invited to join it and discuss this amazing topic.

Headed to here, as one of the targets.

I seem to have missed the facts part... too.

Orkut is another example of a .NET system that is getting scaled right NOW to zillions (approx.) of users.

Granted they are hitting some bumps, but I've seen java based shopping sites with bigger problems and fewer active users. They ended up taking the site down for weeks. Not to mention the site was unusable while up.

Just goes to show that it's not the language... it's how you use it.