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| Aug 14, 2024 | Orkut de volta? Criador revela planos de reviver rede social | O criador do Orkut está no Brasil para o Rio Innovation Week e revelou que planeja relançar a rede social. O engenheiro turco Orkut Buyukkokte deve recrutar profissionais do Vale do Silício e de São Paulo para recriar o site de sucesso nos ... |
| Apr 3, 2024 | Воронка продаж в соцсетях: инструкция по применению | Часто SMM-специалисты, особенно джуны, владеют многими инструментами, приложениями и навыками, нужными в соцсетях, но не знают, как с помощью всего этого добиваться результатов и решать задачи.
А именно от этого зависит успех проекта: от по... |
| Nov 1, 2019 | Почему эти социальные сети так сильно провалились? | Рождение, процветание и смерть популярных когда-то социальных сетей. Перевод материала Gizmodo.
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| Aug 5, 2016 | Orkut founder launches Hello, a social network focused on your passions | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In 2004, Orkut Büyükkökten and Githin Jose founded the social network Orkut as part of an independent project within Google. After a de... |
| Sep 30, 2014 | Orkut Officially Dies After Ten Years | Google announced in June that it would shut down its original social networking service Orkut after ten years of existence. At the time, they set the death date as September 30th, and that day has come.
Orkut never quite caught on in our ne... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | Google Will Shut Down Its Orkut Social Network In September | Orkut, the social networking service Google launched back in 2004, miraculously survived multiple rounds of spring cleaning despite the fact that it was never a huge hit outside of Brazil, India and a few other countries. It was always just... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | Google Puts Ancient Social Network Orkut Out Of Its Misery | lol bye (Screengrab: YouTube)
Start saying your farewells to Orkut — if you’ve ever even heard of it, that is.
Google is shutting down Orkut, the outdated social network the company launched 10 years ago. Starting today, the site will no lo... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | Google's first social network, Orkut, to shut down | Orkut will be gone on September 30th, but Google will keep an archive of the site's communities
(Updated with comment from Google)
Building a social network is hard work. While Facebook made it look easy, so many others have tried and ... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | The Rise And Fall Of Orkut: Google’s Decade-Long Social Media Experiment | On Monday, Google announced the end of its first foray into social networking, Orkut. September 30, 2014 will be the 10-year-old network’s final day.
ReadWrite has been covering underdog Orkut since its invention. We followed its rise to do... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | Google finally shuts down its first social network, Orkut (updated) | Update September 30: Google is set to complete its shut down of Orkut today, ten years after the social network first launched.
Today Google announced the demise of its “first foray into social networking,” Orkut.
In a blog post, the firm s... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | Google finally decides to abandon Orkut | reader comments 26 with 23 posters participating
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Google announced Monday that it has decided to kill off Orkut for good come September 30. And in case you’re really late to... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | Google Shuts Down Orkut After Ten Years | Google announced on Monday that it is shutting down is original social networking service Orkut after ten years of existence.
Orkut never quite caught on in our neck of the woods, but was pretty popular in Brazil at one point, with Facebook... |
| Apr 8, 2013 | Report: 46% Of Social Login Users Still Choose Facebook, But Google Is Quickly Gaining Ground | Since Google launched its Google+ sign-ins earlier this year, social logins have suddenly become a hot topic again. According to the latest data from social login provider Janrain, Facebook continues to be the most popular identity provider... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Google’s Social Network (Orkut) Gets More Musical | Google seems to be taking a page out of the Facebook playbook and giving its social network a more musical experience. Unfortunately for many of you, we’re not talking about Google+, but Google’s other social network, Orkut.
“What could be ... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | How Do You Go Global Against Clones And Competitors? | GoGlobal is Morten Lund’s new venture. Earlier this month, Lund pitched GoGlobal live on stage at The London Web Summit. Despite a few people thinking it was a ruse, GoGlobal aims to be a platform to grow globally for Software-as-a-Service ... |
| Feb 20, 2012 | What On Earth Is Google Doing With Orkut? | Just spotted in Orkut, Google’s also-ran social networking site: a new Google+ badge, one of the first integrations between the two services. Orkut members who also have a Google+ account are now being rewarded in the form of a badge readin... |
| Nov 21, 2011 | All Google Chat Now Uses Google+ Circles | Google+ circles have been rolled into chat across all Google sites, including Gmail, iGoogle, Orkut, the Google Talk client, and even third-party apps. Previously, Google Chat was based on email addresses and was a part of Gmail. When Googl... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Three Ways Google Botched the Launch of Google+ Ancestor Orkut | Mr. Edwards.
Douglas Edwards was employee #59 at Google, where he headed up brand management around everything from April Fool’s Day to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the launch of products like Gmail, and the company’s IPO. In a new book,... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Google goes social with Google+ — Will Facebook flinch? | After months of waiting, Google finally unveiled on Tuesday its new social project, Google+. It’s an ambitious gambit that aims to turn all of Google’s services into one giant social platform, and in the process steal some thunder from Face... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Google goes social with Google+ — Will Facebook flinch? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
After months of waiting, Google finally unveiled ... |
| Nov 29, 2010 | Vostu, The Zynga Of Brazil, Raises $30 Million At $300 Million Valuation | Social gaming is an international phenomenon. While Zynga is the leading social gaming company in the U.S., in Brazil it is a company called Vostu. The company has been growing rapidly and just closed a $30 million series C financing led by... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Facebook Growing Fast in Brazil, but Orkut Still far Ahead | Google’s social network Orkut never quite caught on in most countries, but it remains the most popular social network in Brazil. According to new data from comScore, Orkut remains safely ahead of Facebook there, with 36 million unique visit... |
| Sep 30, 2010 | Google: A look back at 12-years of milestones | From an idea in '95 to a $27 billion IPO, to a tech juggernaut worth $147 billion in 2010
Google is growing up and entering its awkward “tween” years. Monday marked the company’s 12th birthday, the time in a company’s life when it star... |
| Sep 25, 2010 | "Bom Sabado" Worm Hits Google's Orkut | In a week marked by Twitter and Facebook service fails, Google just became the third huge web service to experience turbulence, with primarily Brazilian social network Orkut being hit hard today by the “Bom Sabado” javascript worm, which in... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Ping Gets Its Own 'The Social Network' Parody | From the very same Internet that brought you The Twitter Movie, The YouTube Movie, The Auction Site Movie and The Other Social Network Movie comes today’s Ping parody: Another Social Network Movie. Something tells me that people are just go... |
| Aug 29, 2010 | First Signs Of Life At Facebook India Office | Hot on the heels of Facebook overtaking Orkut as India’s most prominent social network with 21 million vs. 20 million unique visitors in July, the company opened up its much anticipated office in Hyderabad earlier this week. Facebook Hydera... |
| Jul 7, 2010 | Orkut About To Fall To Facebook In India | For all the grief Google gets for not understanding social networks, people often forget that it owns a pretty big one, Orkut. While Orkut is much smaller than Facebook worldwide, it does dominate in at least two large countries: Brazil and... |
| Feb 15, 2010 | Google Buzz flies high, but won’t kill Twitter or Facebook | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
With Google Buzz, Google has launched yet another... |
| Feb 15, 2010 | Google Buzz flies high, but won’t kill Twitter or Facebook | With Google Buzz, Google has launched yet another product to compete in the social networking arena. It’s just one week new, and already Buzz has a significant user base and poses a viable threat to several existing players.
Google, like Mi... |
| Jan 22, 2010 | In India, Facebook Uses Google AdWords To Leapfrog Orkut | Different territories demand different marketing approaches. Google, for instance, has been spotted taking the unusual route of promoting their search engine and Chrome browser with print advertising campaigns in India and The Netherlands, ... |
| Dec 21, 2009 | World Map Of Social Networks Shows Rise Of Facebook | (click through for larger version, interactive widget below)
Italian writer, blogger and photographer Vincenzo Cosenza has for the second time put together a visualization that shows the most popular social networks around the world on a ma... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | F1 Racing Driver Barrichello Wins $500,000 Libel Suit Against Google | Google has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay Formula One racing driver Rubens Barrichello $500,000 in damages for the presence of fake online profiles of the driver on its social network Orkut, which is hugely popular in the man’s ho... |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Orkut Gets Streamlined In An Attempt To Fend Off Facebook And Twitter | Forgive us for not noticing sooner, but last week Google’s social network Orkut announced that it is rolling out a complete redesign. The new site is faster and, like every other social network these days, puts the activity stream front and... |
| Oct 9, 2009 | Facebook Tries To Suck The Last Drops Of Life Out Of Orkut In The US | Facebook has seen amazing growth over the last few years, and has long since established itself as the largest social network in the world. But the battle isn’t over yet — Facebook is still duking it out overseas with a number of other soci... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Google Has A Plan To Stop The Mass Exodus From Orkut: No Friend Exports For You! | Just yesterday, we wrote about how Facebook was quickly gaining on Google’s social network, Orkut, in places like India where Orkut is still the big dog. One reason for Facebook’s gains is that they’ve been heavily promoting the fact that y... |
| Sep 14, 2009 | Battle of social networks: How long can Orkut keep Facebook at bay in Brazil? | Orkut still dominates the Brazilian market: it attracted 22.7 million unique visitors last month. The next closest competitor, Windows Live Profile, brought in roughly a third of that traffic with 8 million visitors, according to the Comsco... |
| Sep 14, 2009 | Battle of social networks: How long can Orkut keep Facebook at bay in Brazil? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Orkut still dominates the Brazilian market: it at... |
| Sep 13, 2009 | Location-Based Mobile Social Network Centrl Integrates Web App, Adds First Real-Time Location-Based Messaging System | “Location” has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords in the web industry recently, with i.e. Twitter, Facebook and Google having substantially stepped up efforts in that area in the last few months. TechCrunch has always been parti... |
| Aug 31, 2009 | On the Eve Of Its First Birthday, Yahoo Quietly Shuts Down Indian Social Network SpotM | Yahoo India has decided to shut down SpotM, the social network it launched less than a year ago in India. According to the site, SpotM. which never exited private beta, will be shut down on Sep. 1. Yahoo launched SpotM as a social network f... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Applications anatomized: Wakoopa's State of the apps | Wakoopa tracks application usage in order to recommend new software, games and web applications. It has two main groups of users: professionals and hedonists. The professionals are generally developers or designers who enable the usage trac... |
| Aug 11, 2009 | Google’s Orkut starts phasing out support for IE6 | reader comments 14 with 10 posters participating
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Google's Orkut, a social networking service popular in Brazil and India, has started warning Internet Explorer 6 users... |
| Aug 1, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Microsoft-Yahoo Deal, Twitter Re-Design, Internet Fridges, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze the deal to bring Microsoft’s Bing search engine to Yahoo, check out the latest social media and Twitter statistics, investigate the ... |
| Jun 22, 2009 | Brazil: Social advertising’s next frontier | Trendwatchers take note: Brazil offers a fascinating glimpse at how rapidly social media has changed internet usage patterns. Brazilian consumers spend an average of 19.3 hours online for personal use versus 9.8 hours watching TV, according... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | Is Twitter censoring itself already? | Twitter lovers: Cherish, these days, because soon they’ll be gone. Last night several Twitter users managed to get several lewd phrases into the trending topics leaderboard, but they were quickly removed. (Read/Write Web reporter Jolie O’De... |
| Jun 7, 2009 | Social Networks Around the World | Italian PR professional and former Microsoft Italy marketer Vincenzo Cosenza sent us an interesting visualization today. Below is a map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by country. The map was built using Alexa and Goo... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Hi5’s virtual entertainment plans could hit a virtual jackpot | Because Facebook is the largest, fastest-growing network in the world, a big question is what other social networks are going to do to compete. Hi5, with approximately 60 million monthly unique visitors, is in the process of making itself a... |
| Dec 9, 2008 | Your Web 2.0 App is a Security Threat | In the world of enterprise I.T., everything is a security risk: your insecure password, an unexpected email attachment, a careless web surfer clicking through to a malicious URL, or the unapproved software you installed on your computer. To... |
| Nov 30, 2008 | Social Inter-Networking with Power | The race to find a single sign-on and synchronization service has been on since social networking sites hit global acceptance several years ago. Today, after working under the radar for the past year, and with a member base of 5 million use... |
| Oct 9, 2008 | Orkut on the iPhone — a Brazilian socialite’s dream come true | Google-owned social network Orkut has come out with an iPhone-customized app site, months after larger rivals like Facebook and MySpace built their own apps. Why the delay in iPhone customization? Well, Orkut dominates Brazil far more than ... |
| Aug 29, 2008 | Seeds Of A Social Network: Blogger Adds New "Following" Feature | Blogger has announced a new “following” feature that enables members to list themselves as fans of other members’ blogs.
By following a set of blogs, your username and avatar will not only show up among other followers in a MyBlogLog-like g... |
| Aug 7, 2008 | Google Makes Brazil Center of Latin American Operations | According to the Brazilian news magazine Exame, Google has made Brazil the center of its Latin American operations, placing former country director Alexandre Hohagen at the helm.
Google is understood to have chosen Brazil for its superior r... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Latin American Social Network Sonico Raises $4.3 Million | Back in February Duncan described Spanish language Sonico as “the biggest social networking site you’ve probably never heard of”. At the time, Sonico had raised to an Alex rank of 167 after just 6 months in operation. And with over 8 millio... |
| May 16, 2008 | Facebook getting bigger in Spanish-speaking Latin America | Facebook‘s growth has apparently slowed down in the US and the UK, the first countries where it grew big.
But it’s still growing around the world, passing 70 million worldwide monthly active users, according to the company’s official count.... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | What Is It About Turkey? It’s A Lot of Things | TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher reports about Turkish social network Yonja‘s
$12.5 million worth of funding and asks, “What is it about Turkey?.” As a Turkish
native, I think I am the right person to answer that question and also, this can be an
... |
| Jan 6, 2008 | Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google? | [Update: See our subsequent post here, which includes a deeper look, after Search Wikia gets slammed by other initial reviews]
Search Wikia, a new search engine site, has launched publicly after two weeks of private testing.
The search engi... |
| Sep 28, 2007 | Spanish Social Network, Wamba, Scores 3M Euros in Funding from Early Skype Investor | ¡Que rico! Early Skype investor Morten Lund has gained 40% ownership of Wamba after making an investment of 3M euros in the Spanish social network.
Wamba launched this past March as a Pan-European social network but has recently focused on ... |
| Sep 4, 2007 | MySpace: Hot or Not? | MySpace is responsible for putting social networking on the map. Despite the site’s notoriously bad design
and poor navigation, millions of people flocked to it because it provided a simple, yet powerful
way to self-express and to connect w... |
| Aug 27, 2007 | Will Google get trounced by upstarts TechMeme, Facebook? | updated
Robert Scoble, the tech blogger, has drawn a lot of attention with a talk about why Google is beginning to fail as a search engine, and how upstarts may eat its lunch within a few years.
It is provocatively titled Why Mahalo, TechMe... |
| Aug 24, 2007 | Orkut Redesign. Borrrrrring | When I wrote about the upcoming Orkut redesign yesterday I was hoping for something a little more…I don’t know. Inspiring? Instead we get new icons and rounded corners. I’d love to hear what some of the designers out there think about Orkut... |
| Aug 24, 2007 | Google’s social network, Orkut, gets facelift | Orkut, Google’s growing social network that gets no love back in the United States, has announced a number of design changes. Before/after shots can be found here.
Orkut continues to show growth in unique visitors, even if its far behind My... |
| Aug 24, 2007 | Google Teases Us, Promises A New Orkut | We rarely mention Google’s three year old social network Orkut these days. Except to point out down time or flawed Alexa stats that suggest it is bigger than MySpace. But now some real news.
Take a good look at that screen shot because Goog... |
| May 20, 2007 | Who Will Buy Facebook? | Last week billions of dollars changed hands in online related acquisitions. Anything that is worth buying is being bought.
The rumors that Yahoo is in talks to acquire Bebo for $1billion may have seen wild 2 years ago, but in today’s online... |
| Dec 29, 2006 | Google's Orkut Down For 13+ Hours | Google’s Orkut social network, which has been having a bit of a renaissance this year, has been down for the last thirteen hours as of 2 am PST. It’s unlikely this is an upgrade given the amount of time the site has been offline. This just ... |
| Sep 12, 2006 | Can social networks steer user adoption? | (Editor’s note: With social networking company MySpace one of hottest companies on the Web, investors are asking how MySpace became such a success. Was it luck, or are there certain ingredients you can throw into a social network business s... |
| Aug 28, 2006 | Top Web Apps in Turkey | Turkey is next in this R/WW series
on top international Web apps. It’s the 9th country I’ve profiled so far – the others
have been Germany,
Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain and China. For the following information on Tu... |
| Mar 30, 2006 | Google, Nike Open Social Football Site | Google took a step further into the content business on Thursday, kicking off a new community Web site dedicated to football, or soccer as it is known in the United States. The search engine joined up with Nike to build Joga.com, which is b... |
| Jun 20, 2005 | Profile: Google Wallet | Company: Google (Wallet)
What is it?
This hasn’t launched yet, but there is some buzz around the blogosphere (and the Wall Street Journal) that Google is planning on launching a competing payment service to PayPal.
Is this Web 2.0? I think ... |
| May 24, 2005 | Things hitting the fan at Friendster | Things have been shaky at this Mountain View social networking company from the very beginning.
So we’re not surprised at the latest. Jeremy Zawodny at Yahoo heard the rumors first, and then Business Week’s Rob Hoff confirms them:
Scott Sas... |
| Dec 21, 2004 | Sequoia hooks up with dating site eHarmony | The competitive tension between Silicon Valley’s two leading venture firms rose today, upon the announcement (see LA Times story, may require registration) that Sequoia Capital is helping pump nearly $110 million into online dating site eHa... |
| Apr 4, 2004 | Kill Blog | Hands up who wants to get rid of the word “blog”? I’m beginning to wonder whether the word “weblog” has outlived its purpose. But before you call the white coats, let me try and explain.
You see, blogging to me has always meant writing and ... |
| Mar 29, 2004 | Interview with Marc Canter | Read/Write Web is pleased to bring you this special feature, an interview with software pioneer Marc Canter. Marc is one of the founding fathers of multimedia, having created tools and content in the medium since the late 70’s and early 80’... |
| A importância de o fundador do Facebook dar palestra e curso no Brasil semana que vem | Ele tem 25 anos, jeito informal e um sucesso gigantesco: a ideia que ele teve se transformou em um dos serviços web mais usados no mundo e dizem que foi um dos pilares principais da eleição de Barack Obama como presidente dos Estados Unidos... |
| Fundador da rede orkut.com e CEO da Hello Network virá ao Brasil falar sobre Marketing, Negócios e Inovação Digital | Inovação, tendências, negócios, conteúdo e networking. Essas são as principais características do Expo Fórum Digitalks, principal evento de negócios digitais do país, que acontece nos dias 4 e 5 de setembro, no Transamerica Expo, em São Pau... |
| Ainda posso recuperar fotos do Orkut? | O Google anunciou o fim do Orkut em 2014 — eu me lembro de ter escrito o “obituário” da rede social — e, desde então, vira e mexe, ainda me perguntam como recuperar fotos do Orkut. E não é pouca gente, a dúvida ainda é uma das mais populare... |
| Passa de 40 milhões o número de pessoas com acesso à internet no Brasil | O Brasil vem batendo uma sequência de recordes nacionais e internacionais, graças a casas bahia queda de preço dos computadores, por sua vez, impulsionada pelos programas de inclusão digital do governo, e a concorrência dos fabricantes.
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