(Hat Tip: Googling Google)
It looks like Google has some major plans for Orkut in 2007, as the company may be planning to integrate JotSpot within Orkut.
(Internet News) "This year has been about getting our toe in the water. [Next year] will be about taking a lot more steps forward," said Girouard. [...]
Girouard also indicated that Google may use the fruits of its acquisitions of Web 2.0 companies such as wiki-builder Jotspot and social-networking site Orkut to build the framework for a collaboration platform.
For those of you who don't know, JotSpot is a wiki company (like Wikipedia but better) who allow users to create "rich web-based spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries." (via JotSpot FAQ)
Google bought out JotSpot awhile ago, and may be using them to help unify all of the Googlie services (Calendar, Picasa Web Albums, Docs & Spreadsheets, etc.) within Orkut.
If this is true (as the article is hinting) then Orkut may quickly become a favorite tool for businesses, artists and web geeks like me. ;-)
Note: I wonder if these added features will be enough to dethrone MySpace in the US?
8 opinions:
s under construction right now! maybe this is it!!!!
ya maybe or maybe not
does anyone know the real cause
for the "under construction" notice
this is the longest i have ever seen it under construction... and its bugging as hell.
we're discussing it on blogoscoped-- we have high hopes! http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/80928.html
I hope Jotspot doesn't catch the 'No donut for you' and 'Under maintenance' diseases of Orkut.
So annoying and irritating..
Because of earthquake in Taiwan and Philipines, the servers hosting orkut are cut off from the rest of the world. This is the insider info. Orkut is not hosted with the rest of Google.
no you tell us! it's already back online
Hey Anonymous,
Orkut not hosted with the rest of Google? I'm not sure if that makes any sense.
Orkut is hosted in the US, and the only reason I know this is because Brazil and India had to contact Google in the US about Orkut, since their servers are on American soil (and thereby go by different laws).
Second,
Why would Orkut host any of their servers in unstable regions? With a potential for war in the East (North Korea) and natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.) it would not make much sense for Google to host in that area.
Just my two cents. :-)
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