Google: Orkut Will Co-Exist With Google+ 64
splitenz writes "Google's other social networking site, Orkut, which has been around for about seven years and has tens of millions of users worldwide, will continue to operate alongside the new Google+ for now. However, Google is leaving its options open regarding the possibility of fusing the two through some sort of integration further down the road."
Hey, cool! (Score:1)
Orkut's stil a thing, huh?
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Funnily enough: "Orkut" is a finnish word (probably by coincidence). It is plural, definite form (?) of "orkku", which is a shortened, colloquialism of the word "orgasmi".
In other words: "Orkut" means "the orgasms".
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In other words: "Orkut" means "the orgasms".
I wonder what the people in the town of Orkutt, California think of that. :-)
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If I were them, I'd advertise on it and open a whole lot of bordellos and make it a capital of paid sex and porn. "Your orgasms, with two T's!"
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What does that have to do with shaved pussy?
I would mod you "offtopic" if I could.
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I like my women to not look like they're 13, tyvm.
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As an Indian, I can confirm: most people have indeed moved to Facebook.
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If that's the case then Google+ is going to be a major failure because everyone is going to get shitspam from Brazilians...
Slashdot seems to be doing quite well still, despite all the shitspam from racist bigots.
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So I take you've never met:
Russians
Indians
Chinese
Japanese
Italians (ugggh)
Danish (uggggggh)
I urge you to try out any World of Warcraft European server that's not majorly english, like Xavius-EU (majorly italian) or any similar one - there are many out there. You'll see that essentially every nationality likes to drive others "out" and make their server/community into their own nice walled garden, while actively hounding any outsider who tries to disturb them.
That's just basic human tribalism. Everyone is gui
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I urge you to try out any World of Warcraft European server that's not majorly english, like Xavius-EU (majorly italian) or any similar one - there are many out there. You'll see that essentially every nationality likes to drive others "out" and make their server/community into their own nice walled garden, while actively hounding any outsider who tries to disturb them. That's just basic human tribalism. Everyone is guilty of it on base level, even if certain cultures elevate it to be more acceptable then others.
... Try out any WoW server that *is* english and try speaking anything BUT english. Sure, some people don't mind. But it doesn't take long for some stupid american to start telling you to "go back home", or "learn a real language".
... on a micro level and on a macro level. Just look at all the BS wars the US is heading up.
Tribalism? I'm pretty sure the americans didn't invent it. But they've certainly perfected it
Use it to develop and test federation APIs (Score:1)
Google actually has a huge opportunity with Orkut already being a fully developed and separate network. Data liberation is great, but the real value in social networking is the connections, not just the content. Orkut could give them a testbed for a federation API that will let people network and share no matter what site they call home - and would send the message that Google wants to be the best at sharing by continuing to provide a superior experience, rather than by enticing users in and then keeping th
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They will likely merge at some point in time (Score:2)
They will NEVER merge (Score:3)
I'm Brazilian. Orkut is still very popular here, but lost some space to facebook. A reason is that orkut is FULL of low-brow content. "Orkutization" is used as a verb to define the rise of low-brow content in a given service.
There's no way in hell Google is going to migrate all this.
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More low-brow than Facebook? Wow...
Explain please... (Score:2)
A reason is that orkut is FULL of low-brow content. "Orkutization" is used as a verb to define the rise of low-brow content in a given service.
Can you explain what you mean by "low-brow"?
Are we talking porn? Just uninteresting garbage? Spam?
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A reason is that orkut is FULL of low-brow content. "Orkutization" is used as a verb to define the rise of low-brow content in a given service.
Can you explain what you mean by "low-brow"?
Are we talking porn? Just uninteresting garbage? Spam?
Racism is big on Orkut.
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Racism is big on Orkut.
Well, racism isn't immediately low brow. Unless you're one of *those* people who thinks it is, because you're unable to process information yourself, and require it spoon-fed to you by fox.
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A reason is that orkut is FULL of low-brow content. "Orkutization" is used as a verb to define the rise of low-brow content in a given service.
Can you explain what you mean by "low-brow"?
Are we talking porn? Just uninteresting garbage? Spam?
Actually, by "low-brow content" he means "poor people's content". He's just being elitist. When orkut started, it was kind of a high middle class thing, then the poorer people in Brazik started to join, until they became the majority of users. When that happened, the "cool" people started to migrate to Facebook. So, basically, orkut still has something like 80% of Brazilian social network users, but it's not a cool thing anymore, since it's full of poorer, "low-brow content generating" people...
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He's just being elitist.
Call him (or me for that matter - I'm brazilian too) however you want, but you can't deny the content these "poor people" produce have near-zero cultural or informative value. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. While the term "low-brow" may sound harsh or elitist, it just reflects the reality of the situation. I'm not saying those people should be denied access to the network though - to the contrary. To be honest, I think most of the whining about "stupid content on social networks" (from whatever sourc
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Eternal September.
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A reason is that orkut is FULL of low-brow content.
Low brow content such as "virtual farming" and cat pictures with text added?
Good gravy! I can't imagine what that must be like!
Millions of stale users? (Score:2)
Every time I hear about Orkut I log-in and check if my account still exists, if there is ANYTHING in there. Usually I see the friends' profiles with outdated images and 3 year old posts.
It makes me wonder whether the other tens of millions of users are also just stale accounts or if anyone is still using the service actively.
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Interesting, after logging in today after a long time I noticed, that I had a bunch of friend recommendations with Indian names... maybe you are right. Not sure if your comment is a little racist, or if Orkut really has that demography though....
The way I see it is they have one great option... (Score:1)
Make all 3 separate faces to the same thing.
Google Buzz : essentially just the wall aspect of communication.
Google+ : this is the Buzz plus more detailed social interaction.
Google Orkut (possibly a new name, Google Social?) : Google+ and the more advanced social networking featuresets, such as picture uploads, applications, etc.
They badly need to do this.
They actually have a seriously good chance of going up against Facebook with this. People are slowly beginning to hate Facebook.
They only use it because
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I hope I am wrong, I really do, but considering Orkut, Buzz, Wave.. they don't exactly have a good track record when it comes to large-scale services.
Yeah, look at the terrible job they did organizing teh interwebz. At least gmail isn't a large-scale operation, because I'd be sorely disappointed to find out that it sucks after all these years.
Why not merge? (Score:2)
I'd like to design a solution that merges the back ends allowing the use of either front end. If possible of course, I would need to examine closer.
That sounds like a fun project actually...
I hope they try it, if not I will be disappointed.
Integration of services (Score:2)
I would be surprised if they not. Google+ is something that feels incomplete yet, and some of the missing bits and ways of interaction could perfectly be provided by their other services, including orkut. And if they design this well (in the "dont do evil" sense) will be able to be as much integrated with services from other parties. Won't be surprised if more bits from Wave lands there, too.
I wonder how far they could go in that interaction. And how far they will end going thanks to regulations, security
Ewwwww (Score:2)
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Google+ is going to be a lot less cool if Brazil and India get invites before me.
Let me guess. You're in a hell-hole country like Myanmar or North Korea or Somalia or Zimbabwe.
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Buzz (Score:2)
What I find odd is that they haven't integrated Buzz.
Actually, what I find odd is that G+ is even *in* beta. It's basically Buzz with extra (and not entirely intuitive) privacy features, a slapdash news search system, and a chatroom loosely hung together.
A Facebook killer it isn't.
That reminds me . . . (Score:2)
I've been meaning to delete my account for a while now.
LOL Its still in beta (Score:1)