Comments on: Why I won’t use Orkut or Gmail

By: inblognito

inblognito — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 02:15:24 +0000

Hey! That’s creepy the way it says the browser and os…wish I’d known about that before I commented on this borrowed-without-permission (roommate’s) computer!

By: inblognito

inblognito — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 02:09:52 +0000

Well said! Excellent point! Nice to know I’m not alone in not wanting a Gmail account.

By: El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado » Blog Archive » Someone and someone were down by the pond Looking for something to plant in the lawn

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:10:10 +0000

[...] Web services and Digital Identity – I gave up my resistance long ago when I started swearing by Gmail thanks to Derek and now I just accepted an invitation to Orkut by Hipo. Which meant that I had to once again fill out my name, address, birthday, relationship status, interests, favorite music, blah, blah, blah. If I ever decide to change, let’s say my favorite music or address, it means I have to go to Friendster, MySpace, Orkut, Digital Divide, Omidyar, Amazon, my Banks, my AIM profile, and probably 30 others to fill out the same information over and over again. Not only that, but when I do change my address, I need to send out an email to every contact I have telling them to go into their own private address books and make the change. This horribly inefficient process is because we still haven’t come up with – and aren’t even close to coming up with a solution to Digital Identity. I’ve been wanting to write a post about it for literally more than a year now. [...]

By: elena

elena — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:18:27 +0000

glad you got down off your high horse, and lowered your nose before it started to bleed.
i see no difference between friendster (which i thnik you may be a member of) and Orkut. Yeah, so you have to know someone first to join, but it ain’t that hard. What I like about it, is that it is dominated by Brasilians. Friendster is just too many midwestern corn feed people…like me. =P