URLwire:
Friday, January 23, 2004
This Thursday, search engine Google
unvelied a new
online social networking service called Orkut.
The new service allows users to connect
with friends and friends of their friends, as does online soon-to-be-rival
service Friendster.
Orkut is named for Google engineer
Orkut Buyukkokten, who worked on the project during the 20 percent of his
work time that Google lets their employees use to pursue their own projects.
Orkut is a Stanford graduate who in his pre-Google years created social
networking sites InCircle and Clubnexus.
Orkut only accepts people who are
invited by someone already on the Orkut network. After you have been accepted
you are able to see profiles of the person who invited you and their friends.
Orkut gives you the option to limit who can view which parts of your personal
information, such as e-mail addresses or IM names.
News linking
services and news search engines are welcome to index/link this story
Headline/link:
Google
Splashes Into Social Networking With Orkut
URL: http://www.urlwire.com/news/012304.html
Complimentary advertisements
below (URLwire does not accept paid ads or affiliate links)
Does your site have all the
links it should have?
Get your site linked
and keep it linked,
with LinkAlert!
The service that
alerts you to new linking opportunities for your site, with tools, tips,
techniques, and articles. It helps you learn and use the same techniques
Ive been using for 7+ years for clients including PBS, Amazon.com, Warner
Bros., Discovery Channel and AOL. $49 for a lifetime membership. Read
further details here.
|
|
|
URLwire Stock Quote Links Provided
By Yahoo! Finance ®·
|
|
Complimentary Book Announcements
|
|
|
The
MostEffective
Articles
Ever
The Most Effective
Articles from 71 of The World's.Top
Marketers
|
You
Are Here Traveling
with
JohnnyJet.com:
The Ultimate
Internet Travel Guide
by Eric Leebow, John E. Discala
|
The
Busy Educator's Guide
To
The World Wide Web
by Marjan Glavac
Revised and updated
2ND Edition
|
| |
|
This is the Web version of
URLwire
URLwire is a weekly Email news alert
service which announces quality Web launches, events, and online happenings.
URLwire is sent only to people who review and write about new web sites.
URLwire is matched personally by me to your subject interests, is not automated,
and importantly, is not annoying. Subscribe via my contact
page. (Voice 865.637.2438). |
|
|
. |
What
is the URLwire Network?
URLwire is
an email and web based alert service for people who write about and review
web sites, like Yahoo Picks of the Week or USA Today Hot Sites or WDFM.
Learn
more
.
Who uses
URLwire?
Two key groups:
1). Editors and site reviewers looking for great sites to write about and
link to. 2). Online news search engines and news syndicates like
Moreover.com
and Newshub syndicate the URLwire
headline links.
.
How do sites get on URLwire?
I only announce
useful, unique, or educational web content on URLwire.
I send the
announcement to online site reviewers and journalists who are looking for
new web content to write about and link to, and I post an online version
of the site announcement here. I've announced thousands of
sites on URLwire since it debuted in 1994.
If you think
your site should be announced, request URLwire service details/fees via
. You can also learn more about
URLwire here.
.
The URLwire
Effect
"Eric, URLwire
got our site covered and linked online in places we'd tried for months
to get in without success. And, URLwire did it in one day. Thanks!!!
Jim Osgood
OfficeFinder.com
Want to
receive URLwire?
Editors/site
reviewers only! Subscribe to the the email version for free by sending
me a brief profile of the types of sites you review and write about. Email.
.
Editors at the
below venues and hundreds of others are subscribers to URLwire.
Sites announced via URLwire are featured regularly at these and other online
news and reviews outlets:
|
![[ Yahooligans! ]](ykd4.gif){kind=small}
