Comments on: on orkut http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html making connections where none previously existed Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tom anderson http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html/comment-page-1#comment-3687 tom anderson Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:06:24 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html#comment-3687 can someone invite me ? i wanna see :) can someone invite me ? i wanna see :)

]]> By: scott http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html/comment-page-1#comment-3686 scott Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:21:06 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html#comment-3686 Orkut's got too much quantification. Lists of friends are ordered by how many friends they have (the cool kids are the whuffie-magnets at the top). Karma icons (what is this, the care bears?) appear only after some threshold of friends contribute some threshold of coolness. Most appallingly, you need to be invited to join, amounting to the worst social quantification of them all: binary. (Tho, maybe the invite thing is only during beta. I dunno.) Slick site. What Friendster should have been. But still smacks of high school cliques. All the marginalized geeks have come back 10, 20 years later to marginalize the non-geeks. Liberals become conservative, etc, etc, all predictable outcomes of the arc of social maturation. Orkut’s got too much quantification. Lists of friends are ordered by how many friends they have (the cool kids are the whuffie-magnets at the top). Karma icons (what is this, the care bears?) appear only after some threshold of friends contribute some threshold of coolness. Most appallingly, you need to be invited to join, amounting to the worst social quantification of them all: binary. (Tho, maybe the invite thing is only during beta. I dunno.) Slick site. What Friendster should have been. But still smacks of high school cliques. All the marginalized geeks have come back 10, 20 years later to marginalize the non-geeks. Liberals become conservative, etc, etc, all predictable outcomes of the arc of social maturation.

]]> By: joe http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html/comment-page-1#comment-3685 joe Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:04:19 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html#comment-3685 Doesn't Google ask all their engineers to devote a little bit of time to personal projects... which is what orkut is... and the terms of service/ privacy policy are straight out of Google's book... right down to DMCA 512 safe harbor procedures. That's why I call it "Google's this..." ... not to mention the "in affiliation with Google" footer at the bottom of each page... Hey Zeph! I'm going to make a list of what I think could be improved with orkut and I'll post it here and on my blog tomorrow morning... Doesn’t Google ask all their engineers to devote a little bit of time to personal projects… which is what orkut is… and the terms of service/ privacy policy are straight out of Google’s book… right down to DMCA 512 safe harbor procedures. That’s why I call it “Google’s this…” … not to mention the “in affiliation with Google” footer at the bottom of each page…

Hey Zeph! I’m going to make a list of what I think could be improved with orkut and I’ll post it here and on my blog tomorrow morning…

]]> By: Richard Soderberg http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html/comment-page-1#comment-3684 Richard Soderberg Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:23:37 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html#comment-3684 Orkut is the personal project of an engineer at Google, first name "Orkut". It's interesting, however, to watch tens of weblogs call it "Google's this" and "Google's that". There appears to be a presumption floating around right now that Google asked Orkut to work on this project; as I understand it, that's false. Orkut is the personal project of an engineer at Google, first name “Orkut”. It’s interesting, however, to watch tens of weblogs call it “Google’s this” and “Google’s that”. There appears to be a presumption floating around right now that Google asked Orkut to work on this project; as I understand it, that’s false.

]]> By: joe http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html/comment-page-1#comment-3683 joe Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:50:01 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html#comment-3683 man... Orkut has got problems... they should open-source the code so that we could mess with it! (an unreasonable request I'm sure) man… Orkut has got problems… they should open-source the code so that we could mess with it! (an unreasonable request I’m sure)

]]> By: joe http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html/comment-page-1#comment-3682 joe Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:18:53 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html#comment-3682 Check this out from a <a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=94024&cid=8068934" rel="nofollow">slashdot comment</a>: "In finnish, the word 'orkut' is the plural form of the slang word for orgasm." (I realize it's also an engineer's name) Check this out from a slashdot comment: “In finnish, the word ‘orkut’ is the plural form of the slang word for orgasm.” (I realize it’s also an engineer’s name)

]]> By: metamanda http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html/comment-page-1#comment-3681 metamanda Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:03:01 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2004/01/23/on_orkut.html#comment-3681 One thing that I did like is that you can give your friends props, both publicly (in testimonials and declaring fandom) and privately (those weird karma things). At least he understood the need for discretion on who is rating whom as sexy, etc. One thing that I did like is that you can give your friends props, both publicly (in testimonials and declaring fandom) and privately (those weird karma things). At least he understood the need for discretion on who is rating whom as sexy, etc.

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