what the hell happened to Orkut?
It has become the best Portuguese language social
networking service on the internet.
As someone who used to work on virtual worlds
software, I've followed the internet communities sites with some interest. It
has been interesting to see each new one emerge become the leader and then
recede as another site takes it place. There was friendster then orkut now
myspace. I just visited orkut again for the first time in many months to see
many of the communities abandoned, without a post in the last 6 or 8 months. The
only recent posts seem to be in Portuguese. Even in the Seattle group, there are
events for Sao Paulo listed! The Brazilians have overrun every forum and group
and claimed it as their own. I wonder if Google is planning to do anything about
it, because otherwise, it is certain that Orkut will continue to decline until
it isn't worth the support costs.
Posted: Thu - September 15, 2005 at 10:36 PM
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