1. Wow! I can't believe that google would put their name on something this bad! I've come to expect a certain standard from them, and just by looking at the intro pages it is totally below par. Take this gem: "The mission of orkut is thus to increase the overall satisfaction of social life and provide the necessary tools for a more efficient and intimate environment." LOL

I just did some googling on this guy and he is listed as the Inventor/Founder of Affinity Engines, a social software startup. So he has a competing startup to "orkut" as well as being a google engineer? If you look at the "orkut" terms of service it appears that "orkut" is a seperate company as well...

Hopefully this will turn out to be some sort of hoax. The fact that I can't see this site referenced from labs.google.com is reassuring. Google employees often have a great sense of humor, so viewing this as a spoof on all the lame social networking sites is actually hilarious. The incredibly bad (and self-centered) name and weird pink logo combined with the strangely worded intro pages add up to the best laugh I have had all day. Thank you Google engineers! This is the most subtle and tongue-in-cheek Friendster spoof I have seen yet!

Posted at 4:38AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Dave Mervine

2. If nyone out there is a member of orkut.com please send an invitation . My id is pikwik@indiatimes.com
I cam eto know this is the only way to become a member of the online community

Posted at 4:38AM on Dec 19th 2005 by wapps

3. I want to become a member of orkut.com

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Ben

4. Why is it immediately off-line?...

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by kengkeng

5. Why on earth are orkut invitations being sold on ebay?!? Hell maybe I should buy one.

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Daniel

6. Is their any other way to become a member on this site? How about if we don't know or don't have friends in here who will gonna invite us? How could we be invited? Please help me...I'm really interested to be a member.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by sandra

7. Want to get invited to orkut, email me at apiit (at) msn dot com

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jon Mela

8. Here's an interesting forum where we can discuss orkut. http://www.googlecommunity.com/forum-4.html

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Garret Davidson

9. there is a member of orkut.com please send an invitation . My id is Ldesigner@click21.com.br
Please, I want to be a member of orkut.com.

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Luciana Silva

10. Google should let everybody in, not just the invites.
I was invited and signed up but haven't really play around with it.

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Shopping Mall

11. Can somone invite me? hurls103@hotmail.com
I'll be a great friend!

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Bryan

12. I'd love to try Orkut.. Please someone could invited me.
Youn can contsct me by MSN or e-mail. I can give to you all my personal information and my pictures.
Thankyou.

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Raquel

13. raquelalgacaburo@hotmail.com
Please contact me and send me a invitation.
Thanks

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Raquel

14. it is best site

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by faisal

15. can you please invite me to join the Orkut?
my email is anavaisman@hotmail.com
Tks

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Carol

16. I am from Hong Kong, I also would like to join, but I don't know anybody who has already joined! Can you help me, and invite me to become an Orkutian!

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ERSA

17. by the way, my e-mail address is
dost4most@yahoo.com
please please help me and invite me to Orkut

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ERSA

18. http://www.swakto.com - SWAKTO.com is another Social Networking on the making and will be launched this coming August 5,2004 .

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ~evolve21

19. I love how the first post says how much Orkut sucks ass, and then all the other posts are like, "Someone please invite me, so I can joing Orkut!"

Too funny.

BTW - Orkut does kinda suck. It's great to meet people from all over the world there, but the servers are freakin' slow! And ASP?!! WTF? Sheesh... I wish they had really done a better job at planning for scalability. This thing dogs big time. Yeah, I expected more from Google. In other areas, they have always taken the time to get it right before opening it up to the masses, even in beta. I imagine they are regretting it now. It has become so popular, that they can't back out now and just drop it. It would be a black mark against Google. On the other hand, they probably don't want to start devoting the kind of resources necessary to make it really work well, since there does not seem to be any way they can make enough money on it even to cover operating expenses. I have a feeling they are in a real quandary about it..

Oops.

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by oops

20. F.B.i

Posted at 4:39AM on Dec 19th 2005 by amir