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February 4, 2004
Orkut Friends - Collect 'em all!
Posted by David Weinberger
Michael O'Connor Clarke finds Orkut's use of photos of one's "friends" reminiscent of another hobby:
Oh look - he has a Pierre Omidyar. I wish I had a Pierre Omidyar. Wonder who Pierre has - ooh! ooh! A Wesley Clark!! Dang! That makes even my Esther Dyson look a little sick. Hmmm... I'll see your John Perry Barlow and raise you a Marc Andreessen and a Jeff Bezos...
He's also having trouble with the name "Orkut" because, he says, it reminds him of
this.
Michael has just written another funny-because-it's-true blog entry, complete with a "
Get out of Orkut free" card. (It reminds me of a
mock Friendster screen I've been using in presentations to make the point that the problem with Artificial Social Networks isn't simply that they make analogue relationships overly precise, but also that they make them explicit.)
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1. Michael O'Connor Clarke on February 5, 2004 12:04 AM writes...
And now...the Get Out of Orkut Free card ;-)
Permalink to Comment2. F. Randall Farmer on February 5, 2004 12:32 PM writes...
Ugh. Didn't mean to post the same thing three times. It looked to me like my browser was stuck, since it took more than a minute for the post to go through. :-( Hope you can clean it up.
Permalink to Comment3. F. Randall Farmer on February 5, 2004 5:36 PM writes...
“We’re turning Japanese, I think we’re turning Japanese, I really think so…” — apologies to/from The Vapors.
For those of us lucky enough to spend some quality time with Japanese corporate culture, this practice of collecting business cards is quite familiar. I’ve had people look at a card I received from the EVP of a top three Japanese Electronics firm and practically drool. Another person actually offered to trade for that of another executive. They then launched into a conversation that was akin to kids trading either Baseball or Magic the Gathering cards, depending on your generation. :-)
Permalink to Comment4. Adam Greenfield on February 7, 2004 10:08 AM writes...
My imagination, or have Orkut's photos lost resolution in the last two days or so? They must be up against some burly bandwidth issues.
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