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Yahoo! Tunes into Blogging and Social Networking
aarthi_r writes "The social networking wars have finally begun, with Yahoo! coming out with it's very own Yahoo! 360, which combines blogging, social networking, music, mobile connectivity, local searches (for restaurants and businesses) as well as photo-sharing. With stiff competition from the early starters like Orkut it will be interesting to see if Yahoo! will succeed." If you want to log in, don't hold your breath- they aren't opening until the end of the month.
Orkut is a closed network, it is not meant to compete.
And IIRC, it was rendered unusable by Brazilians, no ?
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I first tried Orkut when it was the "new hotness"(tm) and it was all good and fun. However, for some reason the novelty wore off rather quickly.
I think it had to do with their by-invitation-only policy. Just like GMail (which I love and still use on a daily basis, by the way), people wanted to use it really bad not because of its' features or out of curiosity but primarily because they couldn't. I guess, in a way, it's akin to a little child who wants something just for the sake of having it. After you have it, you use it for a while and move on to the next new thing.
And I have to admit I haven't logged into my Orkut account for about half a year (and that was only to see for myself what all those "Brazilians take over Orkut" blogs were about). It will be interesting to see where Google goes with this (afterall, it's still in beta and not very tightly integrated into Google's other services, if I'm not mistaken).
Orkut is pretty much dead. It is without question the least-reliable, worst-maintained, most-ignored beta that Google has ever released. The interface doesn't even have anything to suggest it's a Google property other than the "in association with Google" tag at the bottom, which is non-evil-speak for "a Google employee wrote this, so we own it."
Orkut is a very poor Friendster clone that has had server problems from day one. The only reason why it gets any press is because of the small-print "association with Google."
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In order for the entire site to be connected to each other, Orkut can't make an open registration policy. It will destroy how it works (everyone is connected to everyone).
The biggest problem is they can't handle the traffic. If Brazil is awake, you can forget about logging in. The server issues have resulted in many people giving up on it, it was fun at first but many of the good commnities I was in went dead, not a post since the server problems kicked off.
I wonder what they are doing (if anything) to remedy the situation. I heard they put squid boxes infront of all the web servers.
If the site worked, and people were using it, I imagine more people from the US would be joining. I'm reluctant to invite more people because they won't be able to log in.
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Actually not. That would be the uppercase Semantic Web, but the point of the "lowercase" is that it is already working, far away from academia. It's evolutionary, not designed.
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