{"id":2173,"date":"2004-01-24T06:59:25","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T22:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/24\/orkut\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:23:56","slug":"orkut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/24\/orkut\/","title":{"rendered":"Orkut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11924,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.orkut.com\\\/Home.aspx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11925,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.orkut.com\\\/Profile.aspx?uid=978943&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11926,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.orkut.com\\\/Profile.aspx?uid=986755&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11927,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.orkut.com\\\/Profile.aspx?uid=976751&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11928,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.orkut.com\\\/Profile.aspx?uid=979243&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11929,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.orkut.com\\\/Community.aspx?cmm=1371&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11930,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.orkut.com\\\/Profile.aspx?uid=980803&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11931,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.orkut.com\\\/Profile.aspx?uid=980051&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Much of the buzz this past week that I utterly and completely ignored has been about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\/Home.aspx\" title=\"Orkut\">Orkut<\/a>, <a href=\"www.google.com\" title=\"Google\">Google<\/a>&#8216;s entry into the social networking trend. As with the rest, you sign up, invite friends, link to other friends, and so on. I&#8217;ve never been too hot about these things &#8212; they seem kind of silly, reducing friendships and acquaintances to the level of Pokemon characters (collect the whole set!).<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m not entirely averse to giving it shot, especially when I get two invitations to join on one day (from both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\/Profile.aspx?uid=978943\" title=\"Mike Whybark\">Mike<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\/Profile.aspx?uid=986755\" title=\"Jonas Luster\">Jonas<\/a>), so I figured I&#8217;d at least sign up and poke around for a bit (if you&#8217;re on Orkut, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\/Profile.aspx?uid=976751\" title=\"Michael Hanscom\">here&#8217;s my profile<\/a>). I signed up, filled out a good chunk of the profile information, joined a few communities, and added a few friends. Amusingly enough, of the four friends I have listed, I&#8217;ve met exactly one of them in the real world (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\/Profile.aspx?uid=979243\" title=\"Jon Bonne\">Jon<\/a>, who interviewed me for the [MSNBC story] about the <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/fifteen_minutes.html\" title=\"Fifteen Minutes of Fame\">Microsoft fracas<\/a>), which is one of the reasons I&#8217;ve always been amused by these types of websites &#8212; just what, exactly, is the criteria for &#8220;friend&#8221;? Myself, I&#8217;d kind of like it if there were levels or categories of friends (online friends, real life friends, close friends, acquaintances, friends I&#8217;d jump in bed with if given half a chance, etc.), but that&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve yet to see in one of these.<\/p>\n<p>[MSNBC story]: http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3341689\/ &#8220;Blogger dismissed<br \/>\n    from Microsoft&#8221;<br \/>\nAt the moment, with four friends listed, I&#8217;m connected in some way to 5,298 people. I have no idea what that means, really (how far do these connections go? Two degrees? Six? Twelve? Infinite?), but that&#8217;s what it tells me.<\/p>\n<p>I experimented a bit with the communities feature by creating one for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\/Community.aspx?cmm=1371\" title=\"TypePad\">TypePad users<\/a>. Amusingly enough, after a run to the bank to get my account back in the black, when I got home I found that there were now two more members for that community &#8212; none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\/Profile.aspx?uid=980803\" title=\"Ben Trott\">Ben<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\/Profile.aspx?uid=980051\" title=\"Mena Trott\">Mena<\/a>. Rather nifty, that.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, the question becomes whether or not I&#8217;ll ever remember to check in on this whole thing. I was invited into and signed up for Friendster a while back, and as yet, I believe I&#8217;ve checked up on my account there all of four or five times. Now, of course, I can&#8217;t even log in, as I&#8217;ve apparently managed to forget my login information, and can&#8217;t find a confirmation e-mail saved on my computer. Ah, well. So it goes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Space Shanty&#8221; by Leftfield from the album <em>Leftism<\/em> (1995, 7:15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the buzz this past week that I utterly and completely ignored has been about Orkut, Google&#8217;s entry into the social networking trend. 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