Google Kills Orkut To Focus On YouTube, Blogger and Google+ 71
An anonymous reader writes "Bad news for Brazillians. Google's first social network, Orkut, will be shut down at the end of September. A farewell message on the Orkut blog reads in part: "Ten years ago, Orkut was Google's first foray into social networking. Built as a '20 percent' project, Orkut communities started conversations, and forged connections, that had never existed before. Orkut helped shape life online before people really knew what "social networking" was. Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell (or, tchau). We'll be focusing our energy and resources on making these other social platforms as amazing as possible for everyone who uses them."
Re:Google+ has taken off? (Score:2, Funny)
G+ is awesome. The smart techy type people do use it. If you aren't on it, that says a lot more about you than about it.
Obligatory Orkut joke (Score:5, Funny)
Larry Page says to Sergey Brin: "Hey Sergey, did you know that Orkut has ten million Brazillian users?"
Sergey looks puzzled, then says "Larry, remind me again how many is a brazillion..."