Orkut has bagged MTV Youth Icon 2007 prize. It's not a human, but its deeds are humanly.
So why the hell is Orkut so famous amongst Indians?
1. It helped to find long lost buddies of school/dance classes/coaching classes and what not!
2. There are so many people whom you would not like to add on Yahoo messenger/gtalk but would like to know their whereabouts every month or so. Orkut gave that flexibility.
3. Orkut helped you to gossip. Who is committed, and who is not, who is where and who is hot!
4. Many social networking sites emerged after seeing the success of Orkut like yaari.com. These websites had a few distinctive features like every item is a hyperlink, so that you can search for all the people who like to listen to Lucky Ali. Orkut conglomerated all such unique features of different sites into Orkut, so that you don't need to go to any other site for networking.
Where Orkut has gone wrong?
1. Orkut hasn't looked after professional networking. linkedin filled that gap, and has become a big force in the professional world.
2. Orkut has failed to monitor porn profiles/communities, which may become nuisance in coming years in case they proliferate.
3. Many fake profiles are made on orkut and Orkut doesn't have any unique identification for every profile to avoid the repetitions.
The future:
Web 2.0 has rocked big time, but Orkut will face stiff competition from cash-rich Reliance backed bigadda.com, a social networking site. Given the cash richness of bigadda and techieness of Google, the battle will be interesting one, though Google will easily scrape through.
In the end: Orkut rocks!
So why the hell is Orkut so famous amongst Indians?
1. It helped to find long lost buddies of school/dance classes/coaching classes and what not!
2. There are so many people whom you would not like to add on Yahoo messenger/gtalk but would like to know their whereabouts every month or so. Orkut gave that flexibility.
3. Orkut helped you to gossip. Who is committed, and who is not, who is where and who is hot!
4. Many social networking sites emerged after seeing the success of Orkut like yaari.com. These websites had a few distinctive features like every item is a hyperlink, so that you can search for all the people who like to listen to Lucky Ali. Orkut conglomerated all such unique features of different sites into Orkut, so that you don't need to go to any other site for networking.
Where Orkut has gone wrong?
1. Orkut hasn't looked after professional networking. linkedin filled that gap, and has become a big force in the professional world.
2. Orkut has failed to monitor porn profiles/communities, which may become nuisance in coming years in case they proliferate.
3. Many fake profiles are made on orkut and Orkut doesn't have any unique identification for every profile to avoid the repetitions.
The future:
Web 2.0 has rocked big time, but Orkut will face stiff competition from cash-rich Reliance backed bigadda.com, a social networking site. Given the cash richness of bigadda and techieness of Google, the battle will be interesting one, though Google will easily scrape through.
In the end: Orkut rocks!
1 comment:
dude ... one site which needs to be mentioned in this context is facebook. It has a lot of privacy as compared to orkut, it is not scrap-centric, the community thingies which has so pissed off the 'authorities' is not as prevalent because of sufficient moderation, and there are lots of crappy but nevertheless interesting tools and apps to keep lazy people sufficiently busy :)
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