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Google Social Network: Orkut

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-rule-of-orkut-is-you-do-not-talk-about-orkut dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Friendster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, but do some looking on this site...

    It is written in ASP! The webserver is running IIS! Google's solution to Friendster's bad JSPs is to launch a Microsoft ASP-driven website!?!?

    I can't believe that google would put their name on some IIS P.O.S. like this. The respect I had for google just got taken down a notch...

    Is this an early April Fool's post?