If you're Indian you probably got an invitation to join Orkut about 4 years ago. Probably from a cousin you haven't talked to in seven years since your last vacation back to Ahmedabad. If you're Indian in America you probably asked yourself, "What's Orkut?" and dismissed the site as yet another Indian dating mecca.
It turns out Orkut is a Google social networking application that generates more than 60% of its use in India alone. That explains why when you were on Friendster trying to check out who was living locally in the Sugarland, TX area your fist and second cousins in India were e-mailing you to join their network on Orkut.
Who needs Orkut now, though, when those same cousins just g chat you at ungodly hours to ask how you are doing?
Science, graphs, The French, and maps do not lie.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
#124: Orkut
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#420
copying ideas.
indians love taking music, movies, websites and making shittier derivations of a great thing. they will copy anything: movie ideas (chachi 420) , names (bollywood), music (any popular songs from any country - pakistan, china, europe, etc, and american beats - see anu malik). the most egregious abuse of this has been the reproduction of the clever and witty website www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com. This idea has been bastardized by the unoriginal and unfunny indians.
Nice...let it out. do you want an internship hotchipz?
hotchipz,
you're having a bad day. just take a deep breath, relax, have some tea, and enjoy yourself.
life's a little too short to be upset over a blog, is it not?
#24/7: Bitching about other Indians.
P.S. Really consider the internship, it is fab.
Dude, #420 is already taken by "movies about marijuana starring korean and indian americans." Besides a good friend once told us to go ahead and switch the style up and if they hate let them hate and watch the readers pile up.
Wow, hotchipz is hotpissed! Someone get him/her a glass of Horlicks, a copy of StarDust magazine and an A.R. Rahman CD and they'll be fine.
#420
Remember sitting next to the indian kid who got straight A's but never talked. He didn't care to help others. Indian people like to compete with others. Even if it means bashing some one's blog just because it gets more hits than his own.
Ze hottie was probably not having a bad day, is just a very unsatisfied individual maybe. It isn't the a particular society's fault if the so-called members (and this person has to be one to know about Anu Malik) choose to see only the negative side of it.
This individual mentions Chachi 420 but conveniently forgets Pyaasa or Guide. Mainstream Bollywood music sucks because the taste of a majority of its listeners suck.
And if you think that Indian music IS bollywood music, you're more to be pitied than censured.
Also, I think making a site like SILDC is actually clever, witty and funny, rather than a cheap copy. Other than the name, the posts/ideas/jokes are original, IMHO.
Incidentally, Orkut was made by a Turkish software engineer of the same name, and it isn't a lot different than Facebook maybe (which the last time I heard hasn't resolved the issues related to its creation).
So, before you start bitching about something, do take the extra time to do it properly, or not do it at all.
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