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Orkut members launch Orkut Paranoia
community about Orkut TOS on Orkut

Orkut members launch Orkut Paranoia
community about Orkut TOS on Orkut 02/10/2004 10:42 PM
Geez. My head is spinning. Anyway, BoingBoing reader Adam fields points us to a new "Orkut community" (one of many online affinity groups within the social networking service), called "Orkut Paranoia" (link requires free membership). Adam says, "This formed out of some interesting discussion we've had about what's going on... summarized in this blog post:"

1) Orkut claims irrevocable unlimited license rights to everything you post. Most people don't understand what that means. One example of this is that many of my friends have posted pictures that I've taken. This is probably not a problem, generally, but they've granted Orkut a license to use them without consulting me, and created a legal tangle should I have a problem with that, forcing me to have to perform a legal struggle with Orkut, because of their unwitting actions. I think this is rude behavior on the part of Orkut, but their prerogative to demand.
2) Orkut may share personal information with Google in an unrestricted way. Google is unwilling (so far) to discuss what use they may make of that information.
3) Google's privacy policy possibly has some holes in it with regards to data collected by way of means other than use of the google.com website.

I suspect that Orkut is a way for Google to gather personal information about their clientele for marketing purposes, and to try to form a more solid relationship beyond "I just use Google for search because it's convenient". This is not terribly nefarious, but the kind of data that could be collected to do so has wide potential for abuse, and people should be aware that that's what's going on. Some may not care, but many people I know are signing up without reading or understanding the implications of the above three points.

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Company Claims Orkut Stole Orkut Code

Company Claims Orkut Stole Orkut Code 06/30/2004 07:19 PM
It's not like it's particularly difficult to write a social networking systems. These days, at the rate new ones are coming out, it practically seems like a typical first year CS student's project. Still, a company named Affinity Engines that builds social networking products for universities (that just so happens to have been founded by Orkut Buyukkokten - the creator of orkut.com) is now suing Google for stealing their code. From the article, it sounds like they have a pretty solid claim. First, it's obvious that Orkut had access to the code. He even continued to work on it while he was at Google. According to the lawsuit he promised repeatedly that he wasn't going to work on a similar app for Google, but then did so anyway. The real damaging point, however, is that Affinity Engines claims they've found nine identical bugs in Orkut that are also in their own system -- which certainly makes it quite likely the basic code is the same.

Orkut

Orkut 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
Well, this thing seems to be taking off. Nat threw in the first invite, so I signed up, and another half-dozen or so folks have fired off invites. This is another one of those networking site things, and I've decided that while I'll go accept invites from anyone I know (I really need to get a picture up--I'd throw the rainbow parrot pic I use for iChat, but the TOS seem to indicate that'd be ill-advised) I don't think I'm going to go to much trouble to actively go search people out. These things are always interesting to look at,...

Exporting MySQL To Excel

Exporting MySQL To Excel 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
Teach yourself how to export MySQL tables to excel spreadsheets!

Exporting Management Packs

Exporting Management Packs 06/09/2004 10:50 AM

Mac 911: Exporting Keynote 2 to
PowerPoint

Mac 911: Exporting Keynote 2 to
PowerPoint 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
If your Keynote presentation won't export to PowerPoint, you may be in need of better bullets.

iVideo gets new interface, video
exporting, more

iVideo gets new interface, video
exporting, more 04/26/2004 05:23 PM
Waterfall Software today released iVideo 2.0, an update to its advanced video organizer for Mac OS X...

Exporting and Importing Report Objects

Exporting and Importing Report Objects 07/30/2004 03:35 AM

Altiris FAQ: Importing and Exporting
Policies

Altiris FAQ: Importing and Exporting
Policies 06/24/2004 02:58 PM

Yahoo: Exporting An Uber-Brand

Yahoo: Exporting An Uber-Brand 03/28/2005 11:58 PM

Pakistani Accused of Exporting Devices
(AP)

Pakistani Accused of Exporting Devices
(AP) 04/08/2005 03:37 PM
AP - A Pakistani businessman illegally exported devices from the United States that could be used to test, develop and detonate nuclear weapons, the government alleged on Friday.

Exporting QuickTime Movies With Simple
Video Out X

Exporting QuickTime Movies With Simple
Video Out X 12/24/2004 12:59 PM

By Erica Sadun, O'Reilly Network

Sun fined for illegally exporting
computers to China

Sun fined for illegally exporting
computers to China 12/15/2003 09:25 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Dec 15 2003 8:46PM ET

Exporting and Importing to Fix Missing
or Corrupted Certificates

Exporting and Importing to Fix Missing
or Corrupted Certificates 09/15/2004 09:37 PM

Exporting Captivate Content to Flash MX
2004

Exporting Captivate Content to Flash MX
2004 12/22/2004 01:47 AM
Learn how to bring Captivate content into Flash MX 2004 so that you can fine tune your demo or simulation.

: Letter to the US Department of
Commerce on Exporting Linux to Iraq

: Letter to the US Department of
Commerce on Exporting Linux to Iraq 12/15/2003 08:05 PM
Why can you ship a proprietary OS from the US to Iraq, but we can't send Linux? The Silicon Valley Linux User Group asks for much-needed reform in the regulations, with the assistance of Roszel Thomsen and Toni Paytas of Thomsen and Burke LLP www.t-b.com.

Baxa Corporation Awarded Colorado
Governor’s Award For Excellence In
Exporting

Baxa Corporation Awarded Colorado
Governor’s Award For Excellence In
Exporting 06/05/2005 11:58 PM
Baxa Corporation has been chosen to receive the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Exporting in an announcement made last week by Governor Bill Owens. The award honors Colorado companies that have made significant contributions to exporting during the past year. Award presentations will be made at the World Trade Day Dinner on May 18, 2005 at the Grand Hyatt in downtown Denver. Baxa Corporation was honored in the large-size manufacturing company category. [PRWEB May 16, 2005]

Exporting SQL Query Results To A Comma
Delimited File Format File

Exporting SQL Query Results To A Comma
Delimited File Format File 05/21/2004 09:57 AM

Orkut the right way to go?

Orkut the right way to go? 01/26/2004 03:30 AM

Why Orkut Doesn't Work (Ross Mayfield).

January 25, 2004

Here's what I just posted as a comment on Many-to-Many...

"Orkut"

"Orkut" 01/23/2004 05:24 PM

R.I.P. Orkut

R.I.P. Orkut 06/10/2004 05:46 PM

Orkut is now a spam-filled waste and inappropriate for professional use.  What a waste of a good opportunity.  I am now starting to appreciate LinkedIn's more conservative approach.

Orkut

Orkut 01/23/2004 04:12 PM

I awoke this morning to an explosion of invitatons to a new social network called Orkut.

Lots of things to say about it - first and foremost that it's a really clean, functional and exciting site!

Second - when I tried to join Orkut - I clicked on the 'Join Orkut' button and it told me - "Sorry you have to be invited into Orkut."

"Oh" I said.  "Then why is there a button saying "Join Orkut?"

That's pretty strange.

Now - the next thing is that Orkut is (apparently) created by Orkut Buyukkokten, who works at Google and just happens to be the guy who created the oriignal social network for Stanford - which is now part of Affinity Engines (who have a new CEO - BTW.)

Orkut has a pretty conspicuos message at the bottom saying "In affiliation with Google" - so if I was a betting man, I'd say Google decided NOT to buy Friendster - 'cause they got their employee Orkut - to roll their own internal system - which (just happens) to be called Orkut.

That said - let's just hope that Orkut will support FOAF - so we all can live happily together.

Orkut has Communities in it - so I created a few myself.

Here we go!

 

orkut

orkut 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
social-networking site .. Orkut

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orkut - help

orkut - help 02/10/2004 02:54 AM
http://www.orkut.com/join.html Any orkut members out there? Me need Invite.... ;) UPDATE: Got a ton of invites. Thanks :)

Orkut Needs Permachat

Orkut Needs Permachat 02/10/2004 03:02 AM

A community without communication is a dead community and friendship is more than just a wall of faces.  Connections between people are born out of interactions between them and strength of connections are primarily based on the amount and frequency of interactions.

So it is communication that binds people and communities together yet there is little of that going on in Orkut.  Yes, there is the message feature but it's works more like radio and discourages interaction.  Communities have topics, but topics are little rooms one must make effort to enter and compartmentalized conversations within a group setting do not encourage others to join in uninvited.

To get around these problems.  I think permachats should be created centered around individuals and communities.  A permachat is like IRC except conversations takes place over much longer period, days even.  Visibility of permachat should be limited to friends or friends of friends only.  Amount is determined by rate of actvity.To promote interaction and to encourage the sense of conversation, sense of time is removed, leaving only faces and names next to each entry.  Amount of activity within past 24 hours should be displayed in the 'view network' and 'my communities' pages using color hints (i.e. red for hot).

Permachat allows people who know me to communicate with me as well as others who know me.  This in turns allows them to become friends over time instead of using more explicit introduction based social networking.  It also allows interaction without spammy messages invading private spaces and deteriorating sense of friendship.

For communities, permachat serves as the single thread that binds the community.  Topics is too focus-oriented to serve this function.  Permachat allows casual conversations, encourages interaction, and informs every member with minimal effort.  And, most importantly, permachat allows new friendship to be born out these intereactions among community members just as conversations among friends of an individual helps them form new friendships.

A working example of permachat is #joiito.  #joiito IRC channel not only binds the friendship network centered around Joi, but also builds a community in itself as people get to know each other.  Topics come and go just as Joi comes and goes, but the conversation rolls on and weaves its social magic around everyone.  I think Orkut use a bit of that magic.

Orkut for bitches

Orkut for bitches 02/11/2004 04:27 PM
Many people email me inquiring after the hounds. How are they? What are they up to? Do they rule? The answer, quite obviously, is that they're busy doing Social Software. Networking, as it were, via the might that is Dogster....

Orkut in action

Orkut in action 02/11/2004 08:26 PM

I did finally meet someone who went on dates with three people she met on Orkut. So far so good she reports.

Orkut is supplying me with a life so, via orkut, I got comped into Etech, I got a meeting with VCs, 3 dates had, three arranged, and lots of people have walked up to me and said, "oh! hi!"

Orkut Experience

Orkut Experience 01/24/2004 09:27 PM

I just registered into Orkut, thanks to an invitation from Chris Pirillo -- thanks Chris!;-).  While the registration process was a bit tiring, Orkut UI and user experience were more pleasant than Friendster or LinkedIn.  It could use some improvements here and there, but at least it was pleasant enough for me to invited a bunch of friends and collegues, something I haven't done with other similiar services.

Hmm.  It might be interesting to mix PKI with social networking.  For example, I could issue Friend of Don certificates to my friends that basically say “I know this person to be trustworthy, smart, and nice enough to be my friend.“  What uses would such certificate have?  Nothing in the horizon but I am wondering what might lie beyond that...

If you are my friend and haven't received an invite from me, just send me an e-mail.  I just grabbed the names that were handy and definitely missed many of you whom I would be proud to call a friend.

Orkut Bay Area Map

Orkut Bay Area Map 02/18/2004 10:49 PM

I know that Orkut is a tired topic already, but here is a map from DataWhoreHouse showing distribution of Orkut members who exposed their general location on Orkut (via Scoble and Liz at Many2Many).  Hmm, no, I didn't have to pay to get layed.

Mostly what I expected except Silicon Valley looks like Death Valley for some reason.  A bug?

Orkut Death

Orkut Death 03/06/2004 02:09 AM
Huy Zing: My Orkut.com death was a slow painful one that lasted 1.5 hours starting at 20:44 on Monday, February 23, 2004. [via Danah Boyd]

Orkut datamining

Orkut datamining 04/25/2004 08:27 AM

Somewhat scary, but pretty interesting Orkut datamining. An Orkut density map and a Orkut Personal Network GeoMapper. Here's a map of my network. It doesn't seem to map my complete network. It's also too bad it's not global yet.

Via Sanford

Orkut don't care about you

Orkut don't care about you 06/03/2004 12:37 AM

Orkut is too busy to play.... It seems the Orkut servers are overloaded at the moment. I've not been able to login for the past hour. Hopefully the Orkut team will invest in whatever is needed to help scale their websites.... [The Jeff Pulver Blog]

Um - somebody tell Jeff that Google/Orkut doesn't care about you or the performance of the site.  Orkut is a research project meant to suck end-user behavior patterns and profiles.  They don't care about you.

The edge of Orkut

The edge of Orkut 12/19/2004 03:06 PM

I just got the following message on Orkut.

Limit reached for number of friends

You have 1024 friends. You can only have up to 1000 friends. Before you can add more friends, you need to remove friends.

Partially because I was getting sick of social networks systems, partially because they were trying to be "exclusive" with invite only and partially because it was easy, I took the policy of saying yes to every friend request that didn't look like a fakester. Now I've found the edge of Orkut. According to Orkut, you can only have 1000 friends. I guess that's OK compared to the 150 or so for AIM. This error message reminds me a bit of real life. I know need to forget someone every time I meet someone I want to remember because I'm having a buffer overflow on my people recognition memory.

Now the question is... What do I do with my Orkut network now that I'm "done"?

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Orkut goes International

Orkut goes International 06/20/2004 11:55 PM

So I get this message today.....

Hi Marc,

We've just launched a new feature that allows you to specify the primary language of your community.

Why would you want to do this?

1. So that everyone posts in one language! As orkut.com gains more members from around the world, it makes it easier for you and everyone in your community if people can read each other's posts. This is hard to do if everyone's speaking different languages. 2. So that you can search communities by language. This way, when you're looking for new communities, you'll always find ones that you can read and participate in.

I say - "right on!"

We all need to start thinking more international! I bet this is really gonna make Orkut take off even more. Now if they only had something to do in there.

HHHmmmm - maybe like Gmail, Blogger and Google News.....in the valley of the search.

Alternative to Orkut

Alternative to Orkut 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
OnePotMeal announces a new Artificial Social Network for those of us griping about Orkut: Urkel....

Orkut Follies

Orkut Follies 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
Michael O'Connor Clarke is writing funnily (here and here) about the foibles of Orkut. His Monopoly card reminds me of a fake screen capture I used when talking about Artificial Social Networks (ASN) such as Orkut. Click for larger view Just in case it's not obvious, the point is that you can't get over ASNs' inherent binary nature by adding more binary choices. That is, the problem isn't just that the choices are too precise; the problem is also that the choices are necessarily explicit. Social relationships depend on being implicit, hidden, dark and unspoken....

Why Google needs Orkut

Why Google needs Orkut 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
In all the discussion of Orkut I've seen so far, most folks are busy comparing Orkut to every other social networking web site around, typically they mention Friendster ("it's so much faster!"), but as we all know these sites are a dime a dozen these days. At least it seems that way. What surprises me is that nobody has looked at it the other way around: What problems might Orkut solve that Google would otherwise find significantly more challenging? Those...

Orkut Goes Dark, At Least For A Bit

Orkut Goes Dark, At Least For A Bit 01/25/2004 08:34 PM

Orkut party

Orkut party 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

An yone go to the orkut.om launch party last night at Suite 181?. Did anyone go to the orkut.om launch party last night at Suite 181??? [The Social Software Weblog]

Sure - I was there.  Of course I was there!

I got to meet Orkut for the first time and I made sure that the FOAF meme was firmly implanted into his cranium.

A lot of people are hoping that Orkut will support FOAF.

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