A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Within months of launch, Orkut’s user community started to change.
Did you know Google had a social network that predated Google+? Google’s social network was called: Orkut and it launched a few months before Facebook launched as a Harvard-only site.
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Mark Zuckerberg, chief of Facebook.
A Google founder, Sergey Brin, takes issue with people who say Google has failed to gain a foothold in social networking. Google has had successes, he often says, especially with Orkut, the dominant service in Brazil and India.
Mr. Brin may soon have to revise his answer.
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