With Google’s stock price at a record high, it’s hard to claim they’ve bungled anything.
But if GOOG is vulnerable anywhere, it’s lack of social networking.
They realize this. And likely will social network EVERYTHING in the Googleverse.
In the meantime, their version of Facebook is only big in Asia and Latin America.
Actually, it’s pretty good. it’s got too much SPAM. Very Despite looking similar to Facebook, which has very little SPAM.
The big question … DO YOU TRUST GOOGLE with your information?
Orkut’s terms of service state:
… By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display such Materials.
I joined mainly to check the hiking and gymnastics groups.
Since I have no friends on Orkut, I will look at it rarely.
read more … Google’s Orkut: A World of Ambition – Business Week
UPDATE – Orkut is pretty crappy from what I can see after 20min. Lots of SPAM (example below). I went to report this “violation”. Let’s see how long it takes Google to remove this post and fake user.
Rick McCharles 
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