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January 25, 2004
You stole my yogurt
Posted by Ross Mayfield
Dear orkut.com users:
Wow.
The response to orkut.com has been phenomenal and I've been learning a lot about what people like and expect from a service like this. Thanks for all your feedback so far!
Based on your suggestions, I'm taking orkut.com back to the lab for some fine-tuning and improvements. It will likely take a few days to finish them. None of your data will be lost and I should have some nice surprises for you when I bring it back online. I'll email you when it's ready and running again.
Thanks again for your ideas and for bearing with me as I work my way up the learning curve.
stay beautiful,
Orkut Buyukkokten
For the record, not only is this upsetting (got 5 IMs about it at once, was Orkutfighting next to
Jerry Michalski at the moment), but for the first time in any network I had 1 more friend than the honorable
Joi Ito. Guess we have our real lives back now.
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1. Scott Rafer on January 25, 2004 6:17 PM writes...
For your amusement, here's a relic of the first and maybe the only time that AdSense appeared on Orkut. I suspect a lot of the holes, like HTML parsing in two of the six "Interests" fields, will be gone when Orkut comes back up.
Expect AdWords on all Orkut pages before the Google IPO.
Permalink to Comment2. Al on January 25, 2004 6:30 PM writes...
Dear orkut.com users,
Wow.
I can't believe how buggy my software was. People have been flaming me non-stop since it launched!
Based on your suggestions, I will be deleting everyone I don't like/agree with. There are so many of you it will take a few days. I also hope you didn't notice that it was slowing down to friendster-esque speeds right before I shut it off. I'll have some nice surprises in the way of criminally ugly UI components when I bring it back online. I'll spam you to start using it again once I've deleted all references to how insecure the service is.
Thanks for being guinea pigs in my side-project of seeing how much press I can personally get by dropping Google's good name.
stay beautiful,
Permalink to CommentOrkut Buyukkokten
3. milk on January 25, 2004 9:13 PM writes...
that's one way to put it ;)
Permalink to Comment4. Scott Rafer on January 25, 2004 9:40 PM writes...
Whoa! Some poeple are still getting into Orkut!
Permalink to Comment5. Ross Mayfield on January 25, 2004 10:22 PM writes...
Scott -- I don't think so. I was invited under two accounts. One used with great power. One with a single connection and login. Neither works.
Permalink to Comment6. Marc Canter on January 26, 2004 2:39 AM writes...
Ah hah!
I had more than both of you.
:-)
And I'm not even an IRC channel.
- Marc
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