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Orkut was so popular in some parts of the world like India that I always wondered why Google thought it better to shut it down. All those orkut users moved to F
by dahidahi1 8y ago
Orkut was so popular in some parts of the world like India that I always wondered why Google thought it better to shut it down. All those orkut users moved to Facebook & made Facebook a hugely popular platform. I hope the same does not happen with Hello.
- startupflix 8y agoI am still trying to figure out why Orkut was more popular in India.
- barce 8y agoIt was really popular in Brazil, too. It would be cool if they just open sourced it, or launched Orkut the 2005 edition with security patches today. I would use it if it was web only.
- slig 8y agoThe 2005 version is pretty trivial: each profile has friends, a scrapbook (known on FB as wall), and up to 12 pictures; Communities (forums) have topics and topics have posts. That's it. Any junior dev can build it on Rails/Django. The tricky part is scaling it. The original version as a .NET app and it couldn't handle the number of simultaneous users.
- boobsbr 8y agoI think Orkut was the first available one in Brazil. It got popular because it was new and had no competition.
- antoniogabriel 8y agoBrazilian here. I miss Orkut a lot, enjoyed much more than FB. I had the sense that Orkut lost a lot of users in Brazil right after "The Social Network" hit the brazilian movie theathers. Everyone jumped in the hype then.
- donttrack 8y agoI remember trying it out, but it was so so slow. Thats pretty much the only thing I remember about it.