Orkut

[fanf]

So I (finally!) received an invitation to join from one of the FreeBSD guys, and the system was too buggy for me to be able to register successfully. How shit is that?

From what I've seen and heard so far, Orkut seems to be the triumph of flashy web design and association with a famous name over anything useful or new or interesting. Wasn't the whole six degrees thing done to death years ago?

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[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Curious. I got an invitation from Orkut yesterday, and had no problems registering with latest Firebird^WFireFox.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

... and datamining. Don't forget datamining: it asks for LOTS of information about you and the terms and conditions are "all your data are belong to us".

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[lusercop.livejournal.com]

I think that's now not the case (the terms and conditions). Though the datamining seems to be from what I've heard.

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[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

The Register mentions the whole problem of data mining today.

[rillaith.livejournal.com]

whereas if i get / have had an invite, i will most likely not find it while it goes thee way of the other several thousand bits of spam each week. *chuckle*

[techiebloke.livejournal.com]

You're still using Netscape 4, aren't you? ISTR that Banger also had problems until he stopped used a browser thats a decade old. It's not unreasonable to use HTML4 or CSS; Netscape 4.x barfs all over them.

But yes, the only point of Orkut is "new toy!". It is, mostly, a waste of time.

[fanf]

No I'm using an old-ish Mozilla, which seems OK except with LJ's CSS, where the header and the first part of the content overlap...