Orkut X
Orkut is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google. The service is designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Orkut was one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil.[2] As of March 2013, 47% of Orkut's users were from Brazil, followed by India with 16.1% and United States with 7.3%.[1] Originally hosted in California, in August 2008 Google announced that Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. As of March 2014, Alexa traffic ranked Orkut.com 3,608th and Orkut.com.br 3,866th in the world.[1] Features[edit] An Orkut user can also add videos to their profile from either YouTube or Google Video with the additional option of creating either restricted or unrestricted polls for polling a community of users. Themes[edit] A new feature in Orkut is Changing Themes. Other features[edit]
What Twitter and Facebook's 2009 Trends Tell Us About Ourselves
The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. As the year comes to a close, several social media companies decided to take a look back and reflect on the events, people, technologies that captured our interest this year. Twitter took the first crack when it revealed the most discussed topics of 2009. Both reports are interesting and have a lot of useful information, yet nobody's really taken the time to analyze just what these trends mean. First, A Recap of Facebook and Twitter's Top Trends of 2009 Before you start reading this week's column, please make sure to take a good, long look at this year's top trends for Facebook and Twitter. First, Twitter's 2009 trending topics: Here are Facebook's top status trends: 1. The #3 trend on Facebook? As we all now know, we dodged a bullet, for H1N1 proved not to be any more deadly than most common flu variants. 2. 3. 4.
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Despite Facebook, privacy is far from dead
Amitai Etzioni says Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says privacy is obsolete, but has made concessions on the issue. Critics say the rise of Facebook coincides with the death of privacyAmitai Etzioni says privacy is better protected now than in earlier erasHe says documents are encrypted, and laws prohibit invading medical privacyEtzioni: Those who use Facebook should be aware of the privacy they're surrendering Editor's note: Amitai Etzioni is professor of international relations and director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University. He is the author of "The Limits of Privacy." Washington (CNN) -- Whatever the outcome of Facebook's public offering of stock, the social network has already enriched quite a few — as well as famously offered many hundreds of millions of people a new virtual social world. Mark Zuckerberg has responded to such criticisms in two rather different ways. Amitai Etzioni
Casa Criativa
Esqueça todos aqueles conhecidos conceitos sobre arquitetura funcional. Ou a ideia de que um apartamento ou casa ideal é aquele que passa logo de cara a imagem de puro aconchego. Para a dupla de arquitetos Madeline Gins, americana de 68 anos, e Arawaka, japonês, 74 anos, o canto ideal é aquele em que o morador encontra diversos obstáculos pela frente, como os lofts que projetaram para o condomínio "Reversible-Destiny", ou "Destino Reversível" em tradução livre, na cidade de Tóquio, no Japão. Fachada do condomínio colorido e nada funcional Reversible-Destiny, em Tóquio Nesses apartamentos, o anti-funcional é levado a sério: as portas são pequenas e obrigam o morador ou visitante a se curvar a cada vez que passam por elas, os pisos não são regulares, o que exige atenção de quem por ali anda a todo momento, e as tomadas e interruptores ficam estrategicamente posicionados em lugares de difícil acesso. Degraus no meio dos ambientes deixam o piso irregular
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Protect Your Privacy on Facebook and Twitter
Web surfing is no longer a solo affair. Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks have quickly become an integral part of the online culture, and with them comes a whole new array of potential security threats. In this article, I'll identify some of the key dangers of social networking and offer a few easy steps that you can take to stay safe online. Social networking is built on the idea of sharing information openly and fostering a sense of community. Be Careful What You Share For starters, even in an open community of sharing, you should observe some boundaries. The core truth of that statement can be applied to any social networking site, and possibly even to the Internet as a whole. Aside from simply abstaining from posting embarrassing or inflammatory comments online, take two fundamentals to heart: Remember who your friends are, and know that a friend of a friend can be an enemy. Remember Who Your Friends Are Friends of Friends May See Your Post So, you've thought it through.
Pelúcia devolvida graças ao Facebook
Meare-Kat voltou para casa (Foto: Reprodução) Um gato de pelúcia perdido por um menino de 2 anos de idade durante uma viagem ao centro da Inglaterra foi devolvido ao dono duas semanas depois graças a uma campanha no site de relacionamentos Facebook que atraiu milhares de pessoas. Bubba Cat ou Meare Kat, como ficou conhecido na web, foi entregue a Liz Everett, dona de uma casa de chás em Thorpness, por um cliente que encontrou o brinquedo. Até ser encontrado pela família, acreditava-se que se tratava de um ursinho de pelúcia. Para tentar encontrar os donos do bichinho, Liz criou uma página no Facebook com o título de "I'm lost. Liz postou fotografias do gatinho andando de barco e tomando sorvete, escrevendo na primeira pessoa e pedindo aos visitantes da página que espalhassem a notícia de que ele estava perdido. Em poucos dias a página atraiu quase 10 mil fãs e chamou a atenção da imprensa britânica, com reportagens em TVs e jornais locais. Fotos e mensagens
