Google’s Orkut social network, which has been having a bit of a renaissance this year, has been down for the last thirteen hours as of 2 am PST. It’s unlikely this is an upgrade given the amount of time the site has been offline. This just isn’t Google’s day.
Update: Orkut is back online now, after 22 hours of down time.
I was online just prior to the downtime – the friends list went down first and then there were plenty of their donut error pages.. if it is an upgrade it cannot have been planned well.
i hope google will merge orkut with jotspot ! maybe this upgrade will be big. do you think that orkut will have the clean white interface as other google pages are.
Maybe everyone should expect a big upgrade on this new year from orkut.. be optimistic atleast hopefully
merge a social network with a wiki?
Orkut keeps shutting down every now and then.Then again the server is so bad.It is highly irritating when we type a long post at orkut community and get this – “Bad server”.We have to copy what we write each and eveytime before posting the message,so that we can repost the message if the server goes down.When we forget to do so and the server goes down,we are so helpless.
Most of the times when I click on a link, it used to say ‘BAD SERVER’. It’s not just down now. It’s been down since I started using it.
Have yet to join Orkut.com, but I noticed lots of referrer hits from orkut.com to What’s Hot Today.com
http://www.whatshottoday.com
Mike,
I have been here in Brasil for quite some time. Orkut goes down DAILY. It has been much better as of late in terms of service and updates, but the site is highly unreliable in terms of uptime,etc.
However, I think EVERYONE here between the ages of 14-40 has an account. On the rare occasions I have problems with my connection and I go to an internet connection.. If there are 30 people in the internet cafe when I walk in.. 28 of the people will be on Orkut. So you just deal with the downtime because it literally is the only option. Many people prefer to send scraps on Orkut rather than send you emails…the penetration rate is high here and it is also the most trafficked site in Brasil.
we were in our class today, and the first site everyone opens is orkut, and it has been for the first time, ever, that we desperately want to orkut, and we simply can’t!
it was testimonial writing time…and there was this rumour doing the rounds that india has banned orkut, if that ever happens u can count on 1 billion people protesting
I hope they fix orkut, it has been having problems since forever.
Uff…Orkut sucks big time…
Just a little bug at The Matrix
Funny that Marissa Mayer’s picture is shown on the landing page for Orkut.
I guess the only Orkut users are either in Brazil or in Google’s HQ…
well everyone has got bad days..you see…but everyone will still be back on it..after it comes backk..coz i guss a lot of people have become addicted to it by now…even in college after it was blocked everone was doing their utmost best ot access it by means of proxys,IP’sand what not
Whenever a site goes down, I think to myself “I sure hope that the programmers or network people aren’t too stressed.” I just hope that no one is getting in big trouble for it.
Mike: the talk about Jotspot and Orkut coming together seems to come from Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google’s enterprise division.
Quote:
“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.”
you can see the whole article here:
http://www.inte...cle.php/3650566
i dont read any “merge” on the quote, Riaz.
just from reading these blog comments, it’s interesting how accomodating folks are if orkut goes down for 13 hours, but if digg goes down for 2, people want their heads.
We want orkut back!
I think we deserve more than an “under construction” sign…
What’s happening, orkut administrators??????
How long this “under construction” will last??????????
Please, give us an answer!
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I’m agree with one of the post above, I was in Brazil this year and everytime I visited a cybercafe it seemed like most of the people in there had opened a window with orkut.
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hurray! ..i can log orkut but still wid lot’s of errors…
but to my surprise the whole fac has changed…som thing is fishy in orkut
i think we got new orkut…
hurray i can access but with difficulties….
u guys still facing problem….???
(:))
Wow! Techcrunch really loves Google, all posts on the homepage are Google related. I’m sure something else in the world is going on, other than Google?
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ItZ Been a while .. “orkut is under construction.” Do somethings dudes .. gOOgle gUys ..
Wow, that is one heck of a renaissance. Can’t all be Brazil, can it? Mozambique or Angola, perhaps?
If this is in fact an upgrade frm Orkut, then it is really really bad timing on their part. They could have waited for atleast a couple of days. May be after the new year. Everyone wants to send their wishes to friends and they simply can’t.
thats what happens when you use $soft technologies to run a site of Orkuts size
Happy new year everybody
I WANT JOINT THE ORKUT .COM.I SHARE THE FEELINGS IN MY FRIEND AND A NEW FRIENDS.
by wat time orkut will be again reconstructed…………….they should answer this
This is definitely a pretty bad time (just before new year) for orkut to go down.
It hints of the bad effects of monopoly. And what harm does it do to google if they put an expected time it would take to be back on the orkut website. Life without orkut is so boring…
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.
Hm orkut can be accessed from germany.
btw When did they remove the invitation-only?
It will be back soon .But the server is too slow.
Lets expect a new look orkut in new years eve.
Lost few last scraps of my old friend though [:(]
orkut is addictive.. i just used [:(] instead of
hehe
Thats what happens when you use cheap servers!! This is just the beginning, Google’s honeymoon phase is over.
Its back working again
maintainance seems to be over now
taiwan earthquake took place 3-4 days back. that didnt affect the orkut.. probably a shutdown to test out some new features. but its back online! (yay!!).. yup lets hope to see some cool ui in the new yr!
It’s back, alright. Does anything seem different?? What was the matter.. why did they take it down?
I’m here in Sao Paulo (Brasil), my Orkut wasn’t working the entire say, but now is working (since 10 minutes before)… I was very very bored, nothing to do today, almost a new year’s day… Everybody is going to travel everywhere, but, i’m home huehueueehu…
so all that was to merge it with google talke
Hurray…Orkut is working again…..finally…..
Does anyone in the US even use the site?
Roof Contractor
Orkut is back up now. I recently started using Orkut and I’m surprised at the high amount of US-based users. I had thought this was mostly Brazilian and Asian. I do wish they would freshen up the user interface a little, and cut down on some of the groups spam.
Tom
exacqVision IP Video Surveillance Solutions
It’s working again, but I think every thing is same, as I havent noticed any thing new. I think they have done some major server overhauling, and from now on we wont get donuts, which every orkut user hate. And….we want….
a long list can be there. But mother of all thing is that Google should take Orkut seriously. They have biggest video library in form of youtube, and it is not integrated with orkut. Hmmm…they should really get serious after seeing all VCs spending millions on ever budding social networking sites.
I really hope they take down it forever. People here on Brazil spend too much time there, when they should spend a little bit of that time on mine websites. =P
My Google Analytics already shows me a “inexplicable” increase in the number of unique visitors. Which are related to online games/entertainment.
Thank you Michael for the covering.
Bad idea Google. Another .COM bust?
Orkut…never used it…probably never will.
Finally the cracks are showing up more and more on GOOG !!!
To be honest they have tons of ME-TOO products but besides search and map maybe none other impress me. On the contrary they suck. I cannot even sort my emails in Gmail by time.. who would design it that way? Tag as much as you want.. but dont ignore the most needed features. Buying YouTube was a clear testimony of how they lack that capability of bringing out good products. And search is product out of 7-8years of hard work. Such qualit products dont come out overnight if you just throw lot of geeks to the problem.
Also saw that Gmail had all emails deleted for some folks.. I was always scared of the privacy issue with that. Yahoo! email is the best.
Regarding social networking I LOVE LINKEDIN. It is neat, clean, nonintrusive and simply beautiful. I dont want to spend time on one more social site…
They should take Orkut down like they did with GOOGLE ANSWERS…