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- Flawed, but fun and promising -- Plus a link to a detailed review
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orkut.com is off to a slightly rocky, but still quite promising start.
I've been playing with the service for several days (though it's now down for maintenance / upgrading), and have already been fascinated at the friendly and informative communities that have sprung up.
At around 3,000 members the day I joined, it jumped to over 8,000 members just a couple of days later. I have no doubt that it'll be over 20K strong within a week after it reopens.
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orkut.com is, indeed, a bit of a Friendster clone, but that's not entirely bad. Sure, the interface looks more playful than business-like, but it's deliciously speedy and already quite a bit more powerful than what the feature-poor and molasses-slow Friendster has offered to date.
Additionally, the service has -- with a few exceptions -- been peopled with quite thoughtful and interesting folks (not counting yours truly here, so cut me some slack :D)... again, in pleasant contrast with the uber-hipper-than-thou feel of Friendster.
The questions I'm pondering now are:
- Will both social and business networkers be encouraged to co-exist successfully on orkut in the future?
- Will the overall civility and openness of the service survive a crush of new members (witness what happened to Usenet, for example)?
In the meantime, I humbly invite you to check out my early review of orkut, and I welcome your feedback!
Regards,
Adam
DISCLAIMER: I am in no way affiliated with Google or orkut except as a pleased user of both services. - Posted by: ThatAdamGuy Posted on: 01/26/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
So much attention for something that's not even open to the public
cocobongo | 01/22/04
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Google needs some graphics people.
jimk_z | 01/22/04
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Flawed, but fun and promising -- Plus a link to a detailed review
ThatAdamGuy | 01/26/04
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Okay, HERE is the link this time
ThatAdamGuy | 01/26/04
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Many clones
lud0vic | 04/24/04
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