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Orkut is back with a total site make-over

Wow, Orkut is revamped...


Learn how to video chat in orkut

With a nice blog about orkut

With an insideorkut site

Check the activity on the site alternations over here:
http://www.google.com/support/orkut/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=181311


In one word, after the GoogleWave and Buzz period of relative failure to gain access to a larger public than the mere geeks,
Google is in for business in the social network camp by rediscovering and rebranding the orkut.com site

No wonder that Facebook doesn't want to share its information anymore with the Google OpenSocial project...

La fin de Bloggino...

Apparemment, avec l'avènement d'une interface francophone pour Twitter, le rideau tombe sur ce microblog en langue de Voltaire.


Déjà, Bloggino rejoint dans l'histoire internautique d'autres grands services tels que Pownce.com, Feecle.jp, Twoorl.com, Tapioka.ca , Dukudu.com, Tiish.com et Yappd.com...


Le service restera à jamais dans mon coeur, j'espère bientôt retrouver les blogginoteuses et blogginoteurs sur Google Wave pour continuer à vivre des moments précieux autour de cette communauté Bloggino, qui, elle, ne devrait pas se dissoudre pour autant.


Pieter Jansegers, le Webosoof

eChirpy: an alternative for Twitter and Facebook ?

It stroke me as a good idea to recognize the predominance of microblogging's 140 characters in the world of communication and having the courage to be just a bit different at the same time. I've now just read to first general mail posting. Quite ingeniously constructed idea to add functionality everyone could need as a sort of niche: alot of them cannot in the usual channels because the pointy haired boss is looking over their shoulder or their 'puter security boots them off FB or twitter... and forget being able to use your cell phone at work...

but I have to remarks:

1 I thought this niche was already taken by posterious.com, enabling mailing posts is apparently not patented ?

2 this post (originally ended by the three points after work) was already to long for the site (maximum of 500 characters)

I'm doubting a bit that the character limit is well choosen and the mailing functionality is quite nice but my mails are usually a little bit longer than 140 characters

once I'm over 300 characters I've now idea when I stop writing, ideas come at the moment as if I'm 'in flow' with inspiration

300 characters is the limit of babl.nl if I'm not mistaken ( http://jansegers.babl.nl )

Once beyond that number of characters, I usually post on posterious by mail or on kwippy : a micro/macroblog post are shortened as entries of 300 characters to an article that can take any length - at least, I didn't reach any upperlimit as yet ( http://kwippy.com )

I'm sure eChirpy is a nice product, but I'm not sure its UI or its features are going to assure its future for a very long time; yet with some tweeking they can make it

their product/site name is fantastic by any standards, their slogan is too and the enthusiasm of the team behind it works inspirational - and that's precisely the problem I have with their 500 characters limit.

Pieter Jansegers

Webosoof and TwitterConsultant