Concerning AGS and ORKUT

Felipe · Sat 18/09/2004 19:21:51

Well, first of all I'd like to congratulate AGS for it's 5th birthday - yeah, that's it - the 8th World Wonder is making 5 years of existance today!

Now, I'd also like to inform that to celebrate this special date, and also to have a new place to meet and discuss with AGS members I've created a community for AGS at orkut.

For those of you who don't know what Orkut is, here's what says at orkut's About page:

"orkut is an online community website designed for friends. The main goal of our service is to make your social life, and that of your friends, more active and stimulating. orkut's social network can help you both maintain existing relationships and establish new ones by reaching out to people you've never met before. Who you interact with is entirely up to you. Before getting to know an orkut member, you can even see how they're connecting to you through the friends network.

orkut makes it easy to find people who share your hobbies and interests, look for romantic connections or establish new business contacts. You can also create and join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current events, reconnect with old college buddies or even exchange cookies recipes(...)"

The interesting thing is that you can't just "Join" orkut - you have to be invited by someone who's already a member, this means that the 1714977 orkut members (at this moment) are somehow connected with each other through their friends and friends of friends...

For the record: orkut is named for the Google engineer who developed it, Orkut Buyukkokten. (Orkut is easier to spell and pronounce than Buyukkokten.)

Anyway, how many of you are orkut members?

And once again: Happy Birthday, AGS!

-Felipe-

rtf · Sat 18/09/2004 19:25:55

I'm not a member, but this Okrut community thing sounds pretty interesting. I need to be a member to see what it's like, though.

It would be fun to try out

Mr Flibble · Sat 18/09/2004 22:22:03

Yeah, it sounds interesting.

Pumaman · Sat 18/09/2004 22:34:33

Sorry, but it kinda stinks of gmail to me... you have to "invite" people in order for them to create some PR, and you have no idea of what the site provides before signing up.

I may be totally wrong though, so feel free to slap me about a bit.

Mr Flibble · Sat 18/09/2004 22:36:56

Slap around CJ? I wouldn't dare.

Haddas · Sun 19/09/2004 00:21:28

I must join immediately. Orkut means Orgasms in finnish. That's good advertisin'

Felipe · Sun 19/09/2004 01:45:50

OK, orkut keeps saying that it needs to extend its community and we should invite new "friends" to join so I sent you guys an invitation (except to you, Mr Fribble - I couldn't find your e-mail) Congratulations - you're now members of the "orkut family"

Quote from: Pumaman on Sat 18/09/2004 22:34:33
Sorry, but it kinda stinks of gmail to me... you have to "invite" people in order for them to create some PR, and you have no idea of what the site provides before signing up.

I may be totally wrong though, so feel free to slap me about a bit.

* Felipe slaps Pumaman with a large trout

Hah, I couldn't miss the opportunity!

Anyway, CJ, I think that this thing of "invinting" - for this particular case - was a great idea...
There was this "theory" I've heard of that everyone is somehow "connected" to everyone else in the World through a maximum of "six levels"; this means that we could pick someone in the US and someone else in Egipt and this two would have a friend of friend of friend (...) in common... it's hard to explai... got what I mean?
There was also this story (that I think it actually happened) that a man in the United States had this idea and sent a letter to a friend of his, and told him to write his name, where he was from, and give it to another friend - which should do the same - and so on... and this letter happened to travel all around the country and ended back to the first guy...
It's more or less like this with orkut - that's why I like the way it is... with you having to be invited to join... so that everyone in orkut is related, in a way.

So, to keep the community growing, if anyone else wants to join orkut or wants to know more things about it just tell me your name and e-mail

Cheers
-Felipe-

juncmodule · Sun 19/09/2004 14:14:22

Hey Chris, from the bottom of the orkut page:

Quotein affiliation with Google

good call.

I find these "online communities" interesting. I also think it's a pretty good way to promote my music. I'm on Live Journal and just signed up for MySpace.com, so why not another...

Name: juncmodule
Email: junc (AT) juncmodule.com

later,
-junc

Felipe · Sun 19/09/2004 15:57:20

Quote from: juncmodule on Sun 19/09/2004 14:14:22
Hey Chris, from the bottom of the orkut page:

Quotein affiliation with Google

It is indeed "affiliated" with Google but that's because the guy who developed it (Orkut Buyukkokten) is a Google engineer; however, it also says that "it was created as an independent project and is not part of the Google product portfolio. "

QuoteName: juncmodule
Email: junc (AT) juncmodule.com

Eh... when I said "name" I meant real name, since it's not a community based on "nicks" but on real persons; so just tell me your name and I'll send you an invitation ASAP

QuoteI find these "online communities" interesting. I also think it's a pretty good way to promote my music. I'm on Live Journal and just signed up for MySpace.com, so why not another...

Apart from the "close knit community thing" this is one of the best things of orkut - it has a community for almost everything you can imagine (and if it doesn't exist you can invent it).
There are communities for programmers of all languages, on which they discuss many subjects.

There are also many "famous" persons in orkut - from the game programming world, for example - like Geoff Howland, Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, Will Wright, Tom Hall, Jordan Mechner, Mark Deloura and many others!
orkut gives you the opportunity to talk with this "game-programming icons" and even become their friend (litteraly).

And look who I just found that's also an orkut member (Mr. Chris Remo): http://images.orkut.com/images1/medium/961/212961.jpg

I also found a "Gilbert Cheung" - is that you, Gilbot?

Anyway, as you can see, thanks to orkut you can get "inside the computer game industry" and see how all these "legends" are nothing but real persons... just like all of us (ok, maybe not all of us)

-Felipe-

Mr Flibble · Sun 19/09/2004 16:10:04

alastairpayne@hotmail.com That is, if the position is still open.

remixor · Sun 19/09/2004 23:57:07

Wow, I haven't been to Orkut in months, and out of the blue I get a friend request from Felipe. Crazy stuff!

c.leksutin · Tue 21/09/2004 03:12:40

aw what the heck:

Courtland Leksutin

c.leksutin@looptheorist.com

C.

Kinoko · Tue 21/09/2004 04:15:02

Hmm... it does sound a little interesting (I'm sure that USA/Egypt guys thing is a myth) but I know I just wouldn't bother going there. I'm lazy with almost all online communities. This is the only one I've been able to stick to regularly in many years.

I don't think I want to become friends with Ron Gilbert etc either ^_^ It'd spoil the mystique surrounding them. I need idols. Roberta Williams has already been ruined for me.

Mr Jake · Tue 21/09/2004 11:18:05

Ill give it a shot D:

hotspote@gmail.com

Babar · Tue 21/09/2004 13:22:16

Quote from: c.leksutin on Tue 21/09/2004 03:12:40
aw what the heck:

Babar Kemal

Felipe · Wed 22/09/2004 03:35:02

c lex and Babar: Sent you the invitations already.

Hotspot: I need your name and surname to send you the invitation :

Kinoko: I might have expressed myself wrongly there, becoming "friends with famous people" isn't the main goal of orkut - I just mentioned these names because I thought you'd find it interesting - the main "feature" of orkut are the communities. You have a community for almost everything you can imagine: Sports, Women, Computers, Movies, Games, etc.
Talking about the "computer related" ones, there are for programmers of all languages (and even specifically for game programmers) where you can discuss with people from the "field" about the subject and even know "wannabes" that are going through the same you are, and you have much to learn with each other.
Have a problem to solve? Want to team up for making a game? Wanna learn with those who've made it? Whatever you wish, your problem is likely to be solven with orkut

-Felipe-

Haddas · Wed 22/09/2004 18:45:46

Alexander Haddas

alexander.haddas@gmail.com

^_^

Snarky · Thu 23/09/2004 01:10:23

Quote from: Felipe on Sun 19/09/2004 15:57:20
It is indeed "affiliated" with Google but that's because the guy who developed it (Orkut Buyukkokten) is a Google engineer; however, it also says that "it was created as an independent project and is not part of the Google product portfolio. "

A friend of mine just got a job with Google, and is working on Orkut. Also, Orkut was one of the main focuses of a talk by a Google rep I went to. So yeah, it's definitely a Google service.

Felipe · Sat 25/09/2004 19:44:15

blackbird & Haddas: Invitations sent

Snarky: Well, it says in the site that it's just an independent project by a Google engineer, but of course there's Google staff working on it!
And what's the big deal with Google, anyway? Is it that bad if it's related to it?

Back to orkut itself, I did some searches and found other AGS users that are from the "orkut family" too (like Chrille, Helm, remixor and even Yahtzee) so I was wondering... who else from the AGS community is an orkut member?

-Felipe-

Ginny · Sat 25/09/2004 22:08:05

Sounds like an interesting project, this orkut thing. Essentially, this means everyone must have connections everywhere

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Name - Nataly Eliyahu
Nick (if you need it) - Ginny.
E-mail - Nataly dot Eliyahu at gmail dot com