Orkut which is the only social network in Alexa rankings of top ten barring MySpace and YouTube, is down and as Techcrunch is reporting it is down for 15 hours...and counting. I woke up early morning and put on my PC to see orkut down, and I am still seeing Orkut down. There can be few theories, they are going for some major major upgrade which only few people wanted to do, none was agreeing them and then to get their thing accepted they shut the whole system down and now they are doing it all from beginning. Second they are down due to some really big virus, probably of the size of human. Thirdly the recent earthquake near Taiwan can be the possible culprit...OK there can be many more and we really dont know what the possible reason is.
But to see that Orkut had got some huge publicity in India and Brazil though not for some good reasons, and thus increasing their traffic in folds is really enthr
alling. Why enthralling, just because its Google venture and Google, I think is very weak in community run ventures.
By the way due to Orkut viral, I was not able to contact many of my friends. So if by any chance any one of you are here, then have a Hi from me in this my small space.
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Update...
After hours of waiting I checked it once again and it is on...bye the way it is 1:30 am in India, and I was digging in some physics books. Now on a serious note I think that google is getting serious about Orkut, and by now they are also fed up with DONUTS, so I think it would me much of a server overhaul and it took them some 18+ hours to do so. And on optimistic note they would have done some major arrangement for 1 Jan celebrations, by providing us a video+audio integration, and unlimited image posting. They already have server power and necessary services in place, what they miss is a bridge, which can join them all. Lets hope we have more skit options, to think beyond that awkward blue.
Update...
This morning there was an official statement from Orkut and here is what it says. So no... surprises...But life would still move on.
Technorati Tags: Orkut, social networking, google
But to see that Orkut had got some huge publicity in India and Brazil though not for some good reasons, and thus increasing their traffic in folds is really enthr
alling. Why enthralling, just because its Google venture and Google, I think is very weak in community run ventures.By the way due to Orkut viral, I was not able to contact many of my friends. So if by any chance any one of you are here, then have a Hi from me in this my small space.
______________________________________________________
Update...
After hours of waiting I checked it once again and it is on...bye the way it is 1:30 am in India, and I was digging in some physics books. Now on a serious note I think that google is getting serious about Orkut, and by now they are also fed up with DONUTS, so I think it would me much of a server overhaul and it took them some 18+ hours to do so. And on optimistic note they would have done some major arrangement for 1 Jan celebrations, by providing us a video+audio integration, and unlimited image posting. They already have server power and necessary services in place, what they miss is a bridge, which can join them all. Lets hope we have more skit options, to think beyond that awkward blue.
Update...
This morning there was an official statement from Orkut and here is what it says. So no... surprises...But life would still move on.
Technorati Tags: Orkut, social networking, google
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ya the Orkut not being available was really irritating as of now orkut has turned out to be the integeral part of our lifes ,that too getting nw doun on last working day of year was something last expected on this earth.
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