Comments on: Orkut and Google http://www.makingstuff.org/orkut-and-google Creating things Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:51:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Bob http://www.makingstuff.org/orkut-and-google#comment-280 Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:24:06 +0000 http://www.makingstuff.org/orkut-and-google#comment-280 gossip-peers...megalopolii...Phil, I'm glad you're in our friendster village! gossip-peers…megalopolii…Phil, I’m glad you’re in our friendster village!

]]> by: Philip Dhingra http://www.makingstuff.org/orkut-and-google#comment-279 Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:37:32 +0000 http://www.makingstuff.org/orkut-and-google#comment-279 LOL. The article Bob linked to about the Friendster slip-up is hilarious and enlightening... basically, it talks about how someone accepted a testimonial from a stripper, and then through the small degrees thing, his ex-girlfriend contacted the stripper. When they said the world is getting smaller, they weren't kidding. With 6 degrees becoming a technologically visible reality, everybody will find themselves in a village of gossip-peers. All the hippies who want to return to primitivism and get back to the small-community living situation will find this ironic. We've gone from stone-age villages to anonymous megalopolii and back now to friendster villages. LOL. The article Bob linked to about the Friendster slip-up is hilarious and enlightening… basically, it talks about how someone accepted a testimonial from a stripper, and then through the small degrees thing, his ex-girlfriend contacted the stripper.

When they said the world is getting smaller, they weren’t kidding. With 6 degrees becoming a technologically visible reality, everybody will find themselves in a village of gossip-peers. All the hippies who want to return to primitivism and get back to the small-community living situation will find this ironic. We’ve gone from stone-age villages to anonymous megalopolii and back now to friendster villages.

]]> by: Zach http://www.makingstuff.org/orkut-and-google#comment-278 Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:25:47 +0000 http://www.makingstuff.org/orkut-and-google#comment-278 I bet that Google, unlike Friendster (hook-up software), will want to experiment with monitizing social networks with their keyword and contextual based advertising. It's not just about the hook-up, but who you're hooking up with that will bring the $$$. I bet that Google, unlike Friendster (hook-up software), will want to experiment with monitizing social networks with their keyword and contextual based advertising.

It’s not just about the hook-up, but who you’re hooking up with that will bring the $$$.

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