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Impressions on Orkut

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I decided to pass on Scoble's offer to send an invitation to Orkut to anyone who wants one and wait to see how long it would be before I got one through my usual channels. The invite came on Thursday or Friday through one of my geeky friends in the bay area. I am on Friendster too, but haven't tried LinkedIn.com. Overall, pretty neat. Fast, which I appreciate, but parts of the UI are difficult to find. Took a bit to figure out where all the profile sections were. There are sections of profile information that can be secured by groups (ie, viewable by friends only or friends of friends or everyone) so for instance, you can display your address to your friends and maybe your email to friends or friends. I like that feature, but it seems not all sections can be secured like that, which I would like. I also like the idea of the “terminate” button. With these social network sites, I like to sign up and see who is connected to the people I know and see what they have to offer, but after a time I just want off because the site fails to be useful or interesting. Communities are pretty cool as well, if only to find people you know to build your network. I am also enjoying seeing who is on the friends list of the industry “players”. For fun check out Newsweek's Steven Levy's friends list. It's a who's who list of the industry bigwigs. Wow.

(feel free to add me as a friend if you want to network or just for fun)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2004
    I have yet to have receive an invitation through usual channels. Any ideas on how to "crash the party"?
  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2004
    yeah, send me a note with your first name, last name and email address and I'll send you one.
  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2004
    Tosh, any chance i could get an invitation? (dont even know if you'll see this as you posted it a while ago).
    I'm currently a student, but will be joining MS in September.
    Thanks,
    David
  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2004
    Sure. One sec.
  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2004
    Hey Tosh,

    Any chance you can do that one more time and send me an invite? E-Mail is ralmex123@hotmail.com

    Thanks.
  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2004
    is it possible to send me an invitation for Orkut too. :)
  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2004
    Sure, just did. I removed your address from here as well so it won't get scraped.

    - T -
  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2004
    Adeel, I sent you one. I am going to remove your address from the comments to avoid scrapers.

    Send me an email via the contact link if y'all want an invitation and put Orkut or something in the subject so I notice easier.

    http://blogs.msdn.com/tmeston/contact.aspx
  • Anonymous
    July 05, 2004
    Can I have an Orkut "invite" you?
  • Anonymous
    July 05, 2004
    Can I have an Orkut "invite" you?
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    June 08, 2009
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