Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Do You Orkut? Probably Not...





Orkut. Can you guess what this word means? If you live in Brazil or India, then you know for sure, but if you make the good ol' US of A your home, then that word most likely has little to know meaning to you.

Orkut is a social networking service run by Google and named after its creator, an employee of Google -- Orkut Büyükkökten.

Don't ask me how to say that.

Originally hosted in sunny ol' California, Google realized Orkut's market was no exactly the US and moved their operations to Brazil, where Orkut is most popular.

Besides Brazil, India is quite found of the social networking site.

The basic idea is rooted in the Facebook model, but the site has other features that make it different from the popular site. Because it is Google operated, the site allows google videos to be uploaded, gchat to be enabled, among other nifty google "labs" that are always in beta.


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