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Google Social Network: Orkut
shelleymonster writes "According to CNET, Google has quietly released its own version of Friendster, called Orkut. About 3 months ago, Google entered into talks to acquire Friendster, but was turned down. Named after one of its engineers, Orkut Buyukkokten, the new social network looks even tougher to get into than Friendster. An initial 12,000 invitations were sent out, and new users can only join through an existing user. Someone want to invite me?"
To get invited, just go to a Dave Matthews concert...duh!
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Friendster was hard to get into because of all those JSP errors. Orkut is by invitation only. Slight difference.
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I thought those went out of fashion years ago...
So those of us who no one likes will never be let to join? And I thought my life was bad now! First I'm kept out of all of the real world social places... not the online ones too? Could it get any worse?
Yes, the above is sarcasm!
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Named after one of its engineers, Orkut Buyukkokten
:(
They should have named it Buyukkokten!
Never argue with an idiot, he'll just lower you to his level and beat you with experience.
Alright! Now thru the golden graces of Google, they've amassed all the collective might of the PhD's they employ to re-create the negative social effects of high school cliques and elitism!
YAY!
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Orkut? They'll have to do quite a bit of work to give their members the prestige that's associated with having a Slashdot fan.
An invitation-only society will always become cannabalistic and/or inbred.
I don't want to be invited into that!
Don't believe anything I say. I crash test crack pipes for a living.
google continue their world domination attempts, next thing you know we'll have google linux, google word pro, and google tunes (gTunes?) ... they'll release it all in a single package and call it googogogol
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I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member. =)
about these things. I met my best friend, my wife and my rabbi on friendster. I'm not even jewish!
;-) Sorry.
Quack, quack.
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Just kidding! :-P
Next time someone questions the educational ability of the internet, simply respond with that one word. It is proof that we've all learned something new, which we probably never would have.
I especially like the "join orkut" page... I was expecting it to say "haha, loser! go away!"
Google put up a network to compete w/ Friendster.
Riiiiight
Twelve thousand initial invitations went out to join.
Riiiight
Only members can invite new members.
Riiiight
This is the BEST vaporware campaign EVER!
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Yeah. I really want to be part of Orkut. Please, someone invite me. Not.
...by working on it about one day a week--an amount that Google asks all of its engineers to devote to personal projects
Is it the Sunday?
Mobster: you must be a member of a gang or Mafia. To get in, you need to have a rap sheet with at least 20 entries. First 12,000 invites went to email addresses in Federal prisons.
Witchster: you must be an initiate into witchcraft. To get in you need to have posted at least one spell of your own creation, with details on the underlying operation principles. First 12,000 invites went to the High Priest/Priestesses of covens registered as nonprofits.
Govster: you must be a politician who is, or recently was, running for any public office in the United States of America. To get in you must have a public web site that contains the slogan "Vote for America! Vote for me!". First 12,000 invites went to the list of people who ran for Governor of California in the latest state election.
=^..^= all your rodent are belong to us
Thanks!
- Google Orkut Development Team
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It's the Eric Cartman business model... we've built this really great thing and YOU CAN'T USE IT!
People will be clamoring to try and get access to this thing only because they're being told they can't have it.
What a great country!
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
yes, but it's a good thing it's not called "Google Friends".
Can you imagine the confusion, if it were name something that would be shortened to "GFriends"?
Maybe its a secret plot to analyze internet communities and relationships, from which to extract information on quelching those upstart query ruining bloggers!
All they really had to do was invite Kevin Bacon, and we'd be all set....
I'm surprised that Google doesn't create more plays on its own name for various functions. Besides the Froogle shopping site that could have:
Whoogle -- social networks
Oogle -- porn
Doogle -- jobs
Zoogle -- info on animals
Choogle -- food, recipes, and restaurants
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
I think you are confusing balding 40-year old men who pretend to be teenage girls online with actual women.
Or maybe I'm confusing AOL chat rooms with friendster.
Not true.
I had one friend on Friendster...he's a real kind of savvy guy who's totally well adjusted. Joining via him added a bunch of new contacts, some of whom I got on very well with.
So, I join friendster with one friend, and suddenly I have ten more. I introduced a few others to my wife, who used to complain about not being able to meet people.
Friendster is just another way to meet people you might like. It's like a digital party, only you don't have to clean vomit off your couch.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
And remove upstream until all associations are removed, to the root invitee. Then Remove all the association down from that same invitee.
Call it "Pruning the tree".
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Never thought I'd say this on Slashdot, but it's "loose" not "lose"!
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and the point of the join button is...to take you to a "no, you cant join actually.." page weird
I saw on your web page the offer to "expand the circumference of your social circle." That's great and all, but can you help expand the circumference of my little Urkel?
thanks!
Jaleel White
If it responds with "invalid e-mail address", then you struck out; if not, score!
Now, next thing to do is to automate this with your mailbox, and then see which of your "friends" didn't invite you!
So let's see, this great site that noone can even see is the next big wave?