orkut

By anders pearson 05 Feb 2004

let me know if you want an <a href=”http://www.orkut.com/“>orkut</a> invite. i’m only going to invite people that ask.

from what i’ve seen so far, it’s basically <a href=”http://www.friendster.com/“>friendster</a> and <a href=”http://www.linkedin.com/“>linkedin</a> combined and implemented by some programmers who know a little more about writing scalable, usable web applications than the people at friendster.

i’d also like to point out, for the record, that i built a web-based social networking tool for a columbia business school class in 2000 (that’s 3 whole years before friendster). it was basically a mini-friendster where the students in the class would enter their contacts (only among other students in the class) and they could then see their network visualized (using a nifty java applet), and it would show them various statistics about their network and about the aggregate class network. the prof would then use these networks to demonstrate various concepts.

i just wasn’t smart enough to get venture capital, dammit.

update (2004-06-12): i thought it would be obvious, but apparently it isn’t. the offer for orkut invites was intended for people that i actually know at least in some small way. the complete strangers who find this entry on google need to stop asking me.

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