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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'"
What is down about it? I don't see that notice and everything looks like its working.
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It doesn't sound like its thier webservers, more the software running Orkut.
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It's hard to call orkut 'innovative', when it appears to be an exact clone of Friendster with Crushlink-sans-spam thrown in for good measure (and without Friendster's poor stability and abyssmal performance). I wouldn't be surprised, though, if orkut got some blogging capabilities integrated.. that could be kind of interesting