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Orkut (no catchy title here)
No matter how hard I tried I could not find a catchy title for this post. I guess it’s just as well because there is no Orkut anymore. What? You never heard of Orkut? This was Orkut, originally put out there by Google after Friendster wouldn’t sell to them, (probably should have — oh well, hindsight and all). It emerged about a year before Facebook. Looks kinda similar, doesn’t it? It had an interesting run and actually took off and had 1.5 million communities within a year. Did I not tell you? Orkut’s original purpose was to help users find communities by keyword searching where they could connect with other…
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I Like It On My Desk
My purse of course… Does anyone remember the Facebook statuses that prompted women to put simply the color of their bra for their status, or the “I like it…” followed by the location of your purse? The goal was to raise awareness for breast cancer, and it was meant to draw attention and get people to ask what it was all about. The post went viral and soon every timeline it seemed had the same post with no explanation as to the reason why. Did it actually raise awareness for breast cancer or merely spur a lengthy litany to follow about bad dates. Something that we might want to note…
