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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'"
So that explains why nobody invited me--the site's down.
google's cache in case you missed it.
help fill in hidden movie endings @ End of the Credits
Google's experiment in social networking had a huge rise in members over the last few days...
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what do you expect when posting a dating service story on
The IT section color scheme sucks.
Just when the geeks with Orkut accounts thought they'd finally made a friend ... WHAM! Gone! I'd say Google has built the first truly realistic social network.
Because girls actually get on it, unlike IRC where guys just pretend to be girls.
On the intraweb? Chaos?
Say it ain't so.
"..people were going where they shouldn't, exposing the systems weaknesses.."
No, again I say! No!
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Dear orkut.com users,
Wow.
I can't believe how buggy my software was. People have been flaming me non-stop since it launched!
Based on your suggestions, I will be deleting everyone I don't like/agree with. There are so many of you it will take a few days. I also hope you didn't notice that it was slowing down to friendster-esque speeds right before I shut it off. I'll have some nice surprises in the way of criminally ugly UI components when I bring it back online. I'll spam you to start using it again once I've deleted all references to how insecure the service is.
Thanks for being guinea pigs in my side-project of seeing how much press I can personally get by dropping Google's good name.
stay beautiful,
Orkut Buyukkokten
Then join the invite only channels ...
Oh wait !!! Nobody is gonna invite us !
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
It still ran quickly, but like infestations of mice, people were going where they shouldn't, exposing the systems weaknesses. :)
:)
Translation: Users were able to do things they weren't supposed to... no need for security holes when you have wide open doors.
since you seem to already be in... how bout inviting everyone who is asking in this thread?
<pathetic>like me?</pathetic>
Don't call me back. Give me a call back. Bye. So yeah. But bye our, well, but alright we are on a shirt this chill.
there were ~1500 females with pictures out of ~9000 total users.
WOW! I want in. That is like four times better than all the places I ever worked in or went to school to...
Membership to orkut is by invitation only.
If you have a friend who's a member of orkut, have them invite you to join.
Damn their elitest ways... didn't want to joing their stupid cult anyway *stomps off*
Mark,
There's no way I'm wasting my time on your shitty website when I can build up my own social network much better on sites such as isketch.net or games.yahoo.com.
I don't really give a crap about a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend. And branding your Friendster clone like Slashdot is just fucking ridiculous.
Regards,
Steve
...and without Friendster's poor stability...
Recapping our top story: Orkut is down at the moment.
Orkut Buyukkokten's pic
How orkut.com users want Orkut Buyukkokten to be
He seems to like PDAs: His projects
His publications
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
No Homers...
This sig is in Spanish when you're not looking....
Orkut - Kaput?
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George W. Bush in 2004!
My friends list on Orkut was more female than male.
Yeah, that's what they told you...
Put identity in the browser.
So I'm curious and join slashter. Then I do a search for women, any age, any dating status, picture not necessary. It pops up with "No Users Found". Would someone please join and at least pretend to be a girl?
riding round the world on an old motorcycle
Frankly it sounds like a B-movie horror flick.
Best Community for Gaming and Gadgets!
they'll stop innovating once they become a part of Microsoft
Dear Orkut Users,
Unfortunately, my parents came back from vacation, and they immediately noticed the tire marks on the lawn, even though we did our best to paint them over in a matching color. Things went downhill from there, as my mother caught the little bit of remaining vomit smell from the bathroom, and then my dad decided to check the four bags of trash that were stacked up on top of the cans. Fortunately he didn't find the bong, but the six cases of empties were pretty hard to deny - all three of my cover stories were rejected out of hand. I think the neighbors told him about the police coming by.
As a result I'm grounded, and my root password has been revoked, so orkut.com will pretty much be offline for the next few months. It's a real bummer, because my vision for revolutionizing online social networks will have to be postponed while I repaint the den.
Sorry my parents are so uncool.
0rkut.
As a joke, I created a couple of communities like "Community For People Who Don't Join Communities" and "Orkut, for people who are users of Orkut." Turns out I got about 15 members of the Orkut community, who actually began discussing stuff! The nerve!
So I renamed the community to "Barry Manilow fans", and changed the image for the group to this. Alas, I went out for the day soon after, and by the time I came back, Orkut was down, so I never did see what happened, if people noticed or what.
That being said, it was nice to be able to create them for legit groups, like "Computer Authors" and so on.