Nice Woody Allen quote. I actually knew of Orkut when I was at Stanford. He's been working pretty much by himself on the software for about 3 years or so. (I joined because I know all the people at google who were the first ones to join.) (And yes, Google sounds like a great place to work.)
But let's, be clear, at the current moment it is not Google sponsored. All the attention is pretty well overblown and based on speculation. But Orkut is still a great CS engineer and the software does have inherent value...but still I am sure he would agree he did not expect all this press attention.
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Nice Woody Allen quote. I actually knew of Orkut when I was at Stanford. He's been working pretty much by himself on the software for about 3 years or so. (I joined because I know all the people at google who were the first ones to join.) (And yes, Google sounds like a great place to work.)
But let's, be clear, at the current moment it is not Google sponsored. All the attention is pretty well overblown and based on speculation. But Orkut is still a great CS engineer and the software does have inherent value...but still I am sure he would agree he did not expect all this press attention.