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Well, about a month ago (I guess), a lot was going on about Orkut. And now I got in, actually I could get in a lot earlier because I got invited by someone from here, but it must have gone out with the spam mail =/
Let's give this an overview.
It's invite-only, duh, but I get a feeling it has already spread out quite a lot.
It's very blue-ish, and trendy. You get icons for 'trustfulness', 'coolness' and 'sexyness'. Very pixelart stuff.
You got your regular profile stuff, except this one asks a lot of information. General stuff, your interests, contact info, your education, jobs, physical appearance, what turns you on :p etc
Along with a pic of yourself ;)
It's totally built on ASP.NET, not that you would notice a difference as a visitor from a PHP site or something.
There are friends, who get in your network, there are communities on a lot of sections, nothing really special, it has a forum and an event planner.
You can add people to a hot- and crush-list, you can add photos and small notes.
And there's a PM system.
That's about it, nothing more.
It's a nice way to keep your friends organised ;) and to make some new ones maybe.
Oh, and it's in affiliation with Google :) One of their engineers made it.
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