orkut

I first heard about "orkut" a few months ago. It was a new community-networking site built by the folks at Google. Since I'm already a big fan of Google, I wanted to try it out right away.

Unfortunately, this was an "invite-only" service, not unlike their new mail service. The only way you can join orkut is to receive an invitation from someone who is already a member. That way, they will always maintain this weird "six degrees of separation" thing, and (according to their website) will not grow too quickly. Everyone on orkut has at least one other person on the site who will "vouch" for them.

So I wanted to join, but didn't know anyone who was a member, so I would just have to wait until the cyclone of connections and relationships finally caught up with my little corner of the world.

It caught up yesterday.

One of the blogs I read every day -- "Friendly Technology" -- posted an invitation to orkut, inviting anyone to email him to be invited to join.

So I did. And now I'm a member of orkut. I filled out my profile today, uploaded a picture, and everything.

And the cool part now is that I get to invite all of MY friends to join. From what I can tell, it's a pretty cool idea, and though it's still in beta mode, there are some really neat things going on. I'm sure I'll tell you all about them. And signing up takes about ten minutes.

So if you're interested in joining, drop me a line. I'll be happy to send you an invite.

Posted: Thu - July 8, 2004 at 04:24 PM

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