Comments on: irritated by my own Orkut profile

By: cera

cera — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:27:28 +0000

i want wona of these but icant get it on my screen

By: squeek

squeek — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:55:49 +0000

i don’t know. i’m stuck on tribe. and even wrote a sarcastic review of the orkut party.

http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2CViewListing.vm?messageid=76ad3256-4a64-465c-8361-8147a3c6a1ad&nextpage=%2Ftribe%2Fservlet%2Ftemplate%2Fpub%252CListings.vm%3F

but i understand. i never meant to be a star. i haven’t invited a person that i don’t know outside digital for months. but i accept all those that ask me. now i don’t feel i can say no. i thought about trimming too, but it’s people i’m friendly with and think are interesting so i don’t do anything.

i also keep a separate profile for just professional. they don’t really need to know more about me.

i’m glad i found your blog through orkut. i’m just starting one myself but this is a lovely way. cheers!

By: squeek

squeek — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:55:33 +0000

i don’t know. i’m stuck on tribe. and even wrote a sarcastic review of the orkut party.

http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2CViewListing.vm?messageid=76ad3256-4a64-465c-8361-8147a3c6a1ad&nextpage=%2Ftribe%2Fservlet%2Ftemplate%2Fpub%252CListings.vm%3F

i also keep a separate profile for just professional. they don’t really need to know more about me.

i’m glad i found your blog through orkut. i’m just starting one myself but this is a lovely way. cheers!

By: Notes from my terminal

Notes from my terminal — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 06:03:42 +0000

Orkut

So, no blogging from the conference I mentioned earlier. Maybe I’ll write something about it later, maybe not. But now for something completely different: Orkut hit my social group heavily in the last days. I know, a bit late, but…

By: Notes from my terminal

Notes from my terminal — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 00:49:43 +0000

Orkut

By: xian

xian — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:18:24 +0000

i knew you were just pretending to be my friend!

By: colin

colin — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:41:30 +0000

Um, well, I was going to ask you to be my friend so I wouldn’t forget to visit your blog once in a while. But now … Seriously, I agree that numbers are useless (especially when it comes to friend-of-friend broadcast messages: I’d like to be able to broadcast to all my friends who are also in a given network, for instance) but from a user-centric perspective having someone in your friends list is useful: These are the people I am supposed to keep up on. It’s like a birthday reminder bot. On the other hand, Orkut also has bookmarks. Maybe that feature’s not branded properly. “People to watch”? “Stalker list”? It would nice to be able to see you has bookmarked you to see if you want to become friends with them (or get a restraining order).

By: Blogumentary

Blogumentary — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:14:22 +0000

ORKUT: NOW I’M SPECIAL

I resisted as long as I could, but here I am on Orkut. (I keep wanting to call it “Orkster.”) Others have griped about its flaws more fluidly than I can. For one thing, it’s biased towards Orkut superstars. In

By: Patrick Gavin

Patrick Gavin — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:00:25 +0000

I was just invited to Orkut, so it hasn’t sunk completely in yet, but I am finding the whole numbers game to be so ridiculous that it is incredibly easy to ignore. Numbers are so impersonal and do nothing to express the quality of friendship.

I don’t know if it is just me, but it seems like people are not writing testimonials as much on orkut as on friendster. I think this is primarily due to YASNS burnout (and maybe winter depression The whole numbers game is an easy out for burntout or lazy people who want to express some level of friendship but don’t want to write a testimonial.

That said, I think I will write testimonials for all my friends on orkut tonight. Thank god I’m not as popular as danah!

-P

By: pestsmitta.se

pestsmitta.se — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:56:01 +0000

Quick redesign

Did a quick redesign, based on the old design. I figured that I liked it too much just to scrap it, but I had an idea in my head that I wanted to try out. I still have some CSS-stuff…