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Orkut Goes Dark, At Least For A Bit
caferace writes "As quickly as it went up, Orkut is offline, as least temporarily. Google's experiment in social networking had a huge rise in members over the last few days, and things got chaotic pretty quick, revelaing some scaling issues not well anticipated. It still ran quickly, but like infestations of mice, people were going where they shouldn't, exposing the systems weaknesses. :) Smart to pull the plug and work out some of the kinks. From the notice: 'We've taken orkut.com offline for a few days as we implement some improvements and upgrades suggested by users. Since orkut is in the very early stages of development, it's likely to be up and down quite a bit during the coming months. None of the information you've entered will be deleted, and none of the connections you've made will be lost. And, if all goes well, you should see some significant improvements when we come back online. We'll send an email once everything is ready and running again. Thanks for your feedback and for bearing with us as we work our way up the learning curve. The orkut team'"
I don't understand how this Orkut thing is better in any way than IRC.
Sorry, this is "innovation" in the same way "returning pages of unrelated adverstisements" is.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
God, you're a whiney little bitch. I was going to check out your Stupid website, but I don't need to anymore. I know all there is to know after reading this post.
This is doomed to fail..
I mean come on.. Geeks know nobody.. so they pass it to their geek friends who pass it to their geek friends.. They make up these special clubs and languages so they can feel special.
So funny
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Membership to orkut is by invitation only.
If you have a friend who's a member of orkut, have them invite you to join. "
bah hahaha
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