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Sat, 24 Jan 2004
Orkut
I received an Orkut invite pretty early on, via a fellow ASF'er. It's been interesting to see how fast I've been discovered / invited. I'm on Ryze, Tribe, and LinkIn, but none of those sites has as many of people in my "tribes" as Orkut. The combination of ASF people, and bloggers appears to be much higher than any of the other sites. Is this the association with Google at work? I remember when Tribe came out and Marc Canter was talking it up, but not enough people that I knew signed on. It's been interesting to watch it fill up over the last day or so.
I like the user created tribes feature, which is very similar to Tribes -- there don't seem to be the listings, but the listings never really worked much for me. The profiles are asking for a lot of information, but a lot of it is irrelevant to me because I'm not interested in dating.
So now that my network is getting exposed to the world, what's the benefit? Will I get messages via Orkut that I don't in other media? I'm already connected to the people in my Orkut friends list -- I'm not in it for the numbers. I might get to meet new people via friends of friends. I'm still not seeing it... I've started hanging out in #joiito, and I've gotten more benefit out of that than Ryze, Tribe, and LinkedIn put together. It seems to me that it's not enough to have a big network. The right network is more important.
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i mean all this is terribly boring. friendster, LinkedIn, now this. So what. ?
Posted by chiara at Sun Jan 25 19:43:31 2004
Posted by chiara at Sun Jan 25 19:43:31 2004
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