Orkut

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Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google that was especially popular in Brazil and India during the mid-2000s.

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Orkut canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf social networking service
allowedThirdPartyApps yes
authenticationMethod Google account
commercial yes
competitor Facebook
Hi5
MySpace
countryOfOrigin United States
creator Orkut Büyükkökten
developer Google
discontinuedDate 2014-09-30
hadSecurityIssues yes
hadSpamProblems yes
initialAccessModel invitation-only
laterAccessModel open registration
launchDate 2004-01-22
loginRequired yes
mainUserBase Brazil
India
namedAfter Orkut Büyükkökten
notableIn history of social networking
operatedBy Google Brazil
operatingLanguage English
Hindi
Portuguese
other languages
owner Google
parentCompany Google
peakPopularityPeriod late-2000s
mid-2000s
platform web
providedFeature communities
friend lists
photo sharing
scraps
status updates
testimonials
user profiles
video embedding
reasonForShutdown competition from other social networks
declining usage
registration required
shutdownAnnouncedBy Google
shutdownAnnouncementDate 2014-06-30
successor Google+
supportedAdvertising yes
userInteractionModel friend-based social graph

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Slide platform Orkut
OpenSocial supportedBy Orkut