danah's rant on Orkut - Joi Ito's Web

danah has finally posted her long awaited rant on Orkut. Orkut, in case you don't know, is the social networking site developed by a guy at Google. Orkut also means "orgasm" in Finnish. I've been through so many of these now that I'm playing around. When it's running, it's fast so I'm adding everyone I recognize, (I guess danah would call this "misbehaving") and trying to beat Marc Canter in my local game of "king of the mountain." Lucky for me, he's been thrown in jail. Orkut's kind of like... people surfing. As danah says, I do not yet know what I'm going to do when I get there, but I'm sure there'll be another toy to play with by then. ;-)

Joking aside, it's a nice interface and seems to aggregate a lot of features from other similar services, but I agree with danah's points.

7 Comments

01. umesh - Jan 30, 2004 - 22:33

Sorry to bother you about that, but I'm very curious about Orkut and since is by invitation

only I was not able to join it yet... I'm from India, and I think it will take a very long

time to someone I know invite me... If it's not asking too much, please invite me!

Umesh
umesh@shaadi.com

02. umesh - Jan 30, 2004 - 22:35

Sorry to bother you about that, but I'm very curious about Orkut and since is by invitation

only I was not able to join it yet... I'm from India, and I think it will take a very long

time to someone I know invite me... If it's not asking too much, please invite me!

Umesh
umesh@shaadi.com

03. Max Niederhofer - Jan 31, 2004 - 01:16

I don't really agree with Danah. Her points are valid one by one, but they're not constructive in an aggregate. It's damn hard trying to replicate human social networking. Let's see her try!

04. marc - Mar 03, 2004 - 01:26

pls help with an invitation to orkut , ?

05. Mitzi - Mar 03, 2004 - 03:58

Any chance I can get an invitation?? Please email me one...

06. Celso Raposo - Apr 22, 2005 - 10:13

Please send me a invitation to orkut.

Thanks

07. ilyas - Aug 05, 2006 - 16:27

hi. can anybody help me in giving a proxy addresses for orkut.. its blocked here in my hostel. plz

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