Orkut - An Overview

Well, about a month ago (I guess), a lot was going on about Orkut. And now I got in, actually I could get in a lot earlier because I got invited by someone from here, but it must have gone out with the spam mail =/

Let’s give this an overview.

It’s invite-only, duh, but I get a feeling it has already spread out quite a lot.

It’s very blue-ish, and trendy. You get icons for ’trustfulness’, ‘coolness’ and ‘sexyness’. Very pixelart stuff.

You got your regular profile stuff, except this one asks a lot of information. General stuff, your interests, contact info, your education, jobs, physical appearance, what turns you on :p etc

Along with a pic of yourself ;)

It’s totally built on ASP.NET, not that you would notice a difference as a visitor from a PHP site or something.

There are friends, who get in your network, there are communities on a lot of sections, nothing really special, it has a forum and an event planner.

You can add people to a hot- and crush-list, you can add photos and small notes.

And there’s a PM system.

That’s about it, nothing more.

It’s a nice way to keep your friends organised ;) and to make some new ones maybe.

Oh, and it’s in affiliation with Google :) One of their engineers made it.