Forum OpenACS Q&A: Created OpenACS community at orkut

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1: Created OpenACS community at orkut
Posted by Lars Pind on 02/07/04 10:20 PM
I created an OpenACS community over at http://orkut.com.

Come join here, and let's see what we can use it for 😉

http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=11630

/Lars

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2: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 02/07/04 11:49 PM
Lars,

you'll have to invite us in order to join. 😉

/Bart

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3: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 2)
Posted by Lars Pind on 02/08/04 11:23 AM
Hm. Interesting. When I signed up, you didn't.

/Lars

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4: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by Torben Brosten on 02/08/04 11:47 AM
Probably a marketing technique. Exclusiveness and membership can drive exposure. Notice how some restaurants, clubs and establishments thrive when there's a line out front, no (or very small) sign (and sometimes rumors of abusive management, but great food or celebrity spectators etc). Some places pay people to stand in line to start the whole thing...
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5: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 4)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 02/08/04 12:24 PM
At least they have a beautiful error message:

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Bad, bad server. No donut for you

We're sorry, but the orkut.com server has acted out in an unexpected way.

Hopefully it will return to its usual helpful self if you give it another chance. If it still refuses to play nice, please send an email to mailto:help+error@orkut.com and help us modify this poor behavior.

We apologize for the inconvenience and our server's lack of consideration for others.

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Considerably nicer than our standard error page.

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6: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by James Harris on 02/08/04 12:31 PM
I've tried signing up repeatedly and received that error a few times.  I've also received "Username already taken" MANY times, even when using ten random characters.

Sometimes the same username gets rejected as already in use and sometimes it gets past (only to get the server error).

Seems like they have a few problems...  Could it be related to the fact they are using .aspx pages? </microsoft dig>

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7: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 6)
Posted by James Harris on 02/09/04 03:10 AM
The signup process is working now.
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8: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by Andrei Popov on 02/09/04 10:30 AM
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9: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 02/09/04 03:44 PM
Well, the legal thinking behind such TOS agreements is simple: they have no control over where your posts show up (google, printed in the NYTimes, etc) so have you assign all rights so you can't sue them because, say, a business article in the NYTimes quotes you as saying your boss sucks or whatever.

The paranoid assume that the motive is to sift through the content andn to use it as the basis of a multi-billion dollar hollywood smash hit without compensating the user/authors of the site content :)

They'll probably remove it, just like MS and others have done,  if enough people scream but I have no doubt the motivation is a legal cover-thy-ass-from-all-threats-real-and-imaged frame of mind, not some sneaky and clever way to get you and I to add commercially valuable content for free.

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10: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by Janine Ohmer on 02/09/04 06:03 PM
Is there a way to join without an invitation?  I couldn't find it if there is one.
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11: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 10)
Posted by Chris Rasch on 02/10/04 08:27 PM
Hi Janine,

No, you need an invite.  I just sent one to you.

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12: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by Janine Ohmer on 02/10/04 08:33 PM
Thanks, Chris!  I forgot about this thread - no wonder I've been getting so many invitations! And here I thought I was just reallly popular.... :))))
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13: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by MaineBob OConnor on 06/24/05 02:05 PM
Hey is there anything at Orkut for us to learn and use here at Open ACS?

I'd love to get an invite... hint hint 😊

Related and off subject:
AND I am the "leading man" at another online community
that I Really want to rebuild and move to OpenACS:

www.powerfulintentions.com

It's currently run in a Java flavor (tomcat mysql).

-Bob O
http://bob.powerfulintentions.com

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14: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by ashok ponnusamy on 11/17/05 08:28 AM
Can you Give Me invitite
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15: who can invite me to orkut? (response to 1)
Posted by Bidi Zook on 12/15/05 09:01 AM
I would like to join orkut, but how can I can get invited?
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16: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by gina lewis on 01/05/06 10:27 PM
hi could you send me an invite please i've wanted to join orkut since a long time but unfortunatly don't know anyone there mailto:xx.a.static.lullaby.xx@gmail.com
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17: Re: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 16)
Posted by Chris Johnson on 02/15/06 06:33 AM
Hey, any chance I could get an invite as well? Always interested in all things google.

Thanks.

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18: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by David Lee on 02/15/06 07:19 AM
Hi, can I get an invite too?

mailto:davidtlee@gmail.com

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19: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by Ciaran De Buitlear on 02/15/06 12:59 PM
Can I get an invite so I can have a look?
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20: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by norvii norvii on 03/09/06 05:26 PM
Could someone please invite me to orkut..
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21: THIS IS NOT USED!!!!! (response to 1)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 03/10/06 04:13 PM
NO BODY USES THAT ORKUT THING, AFAIK.
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22: Re: THIS IS NOT USED!!!!! (response to 21)
Posted by Iuri Sampaio on 03/10/06 08:30 PM
I agree, but just let the comunity there. It doesn't hurt anyway =) hehehehe
Besides, we can see what are the good tools and fuctionalites orkit is oferring
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23: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by R G on 03/11/06 12:19 AM
I hear osama uses the site i would like an invite so i can bash him and to be a member of a good new community
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25: Re: Created OpenACS community at orkut (response to 1)
Posted by sunil choudhary on 06/21/06 09:09 PM
Can we delete a community which is created by me but i have deleted my profile by mistake and all the communities are still exist... can any oe help me to delete all of my communities....