| So, farewell then, Orkut http://en.blog.orkut.com/2014/06/tchau-orkut.html 10 Years ago, there was a rush to invite your friends and sign up to each new social network (remember Ryze, Tribe, Pownce, Jaiku, Plaxo, Plazes, Xing, among others? [1]). +Marc Canter invited me to Orkut and I joined just days after it launched. For a a few months I created and moderated 4 communities and put effort into them, before drifting away. Then Google took it over and later combined the logins. And in the process I lost my profile and somebody else hijacked my communities. It took ages to recombine my profiles but I never did manage to retrieve the groups. Like this one. https://www.orkut.com/Main#Community?cmm=292 It's still got my words and the image I added to it. I know Orkut gets ignored in the USA and UK, but it's still huge in South America and especially Brasil. And note of course that it is still much richer in terms of functionality than G+, especially around the communities. So where will G+ be when it's 10 years old? Meanwhile the mailing lists I started on Yahoogroups in the last millennium are still going strong. At least 15 years and counting. [1] Also remember RDF. FOAF[2], Semantic Web, the RSS 1.0 wars. [2] DnaCheckSum as a proof of ID is nearly here! http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_dnaChecksum  [from: Google+ Posts] |
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