How Orkut can start World War III and other stories…

(this blog has an abrupt start and an abrupt end…but I will be punching in more thoughts later and i’ll make it more connected with why I am writing it in the first place… but until then…please read this and please forward it…)

Google is definitely going to crawl on this page but I wonder if there is any way I can get the eye of the Orkut team…I have to give them a piece of my mind…!!

I keep getting calls from friends and friends' friends asking me to help report abuse to certain communities and personal impersonating profiles...
.i hate ORKUT anyways..it's really a place where mostly all losers hang out...and do stuff like recursing an endless link of profiles just to look at their albums!!..otherwise all the shit that happens on orkut would have never happened...

Impersonating Profiles and other problems with ORKUT!!!!

Here is a direct link to deal with it...
http://help.orkut.com/bin/answer.py?answer=59678&hl=en-US

Seriously...if anyone knows someone in the Orkut team in Google.. I would like to personally get in touch with them... I want to know the reason why these guys don't understand the gravity of the basic but really dangerous flaws in the design of Orkut as a social portal...
it would very well start world war 3... ""have u guys at Google seen the kind of hate communities between countries ..... ??? and please do not ignore it under the pretext of freedom of speech...!!!"""

anyway...i wonder how Google justifies its clarion call of 'dont be evil' in this case!..... all they have to do it is keep restricted access like in Facebook!!!

The alpha (not beta) version of my blog ;)

To start writing a blog is my first step into the world of Web 2.0. I have finally (after a lot of deliberation and procrastinated plans) stepped into the flowery world of web 2.0. Well, I come from the Linux world, so this anything that doesn’t involve writing C code in ‘vi’ is flowery to me

I am one of the fortunate ones (or unfortunate…maybe ??) who really didn’t have anything to do with web development related to the pre-web 2.0 era. I have currently started looking into the basics of web 2.0 programming. So most of my time these days goes in reading up and watching some video tutorials on .NET, AJAX , JavaScript, DOM blah blah… to be frank, just a month back I had no idea how it all worked, but today I am well up to speed with it. The only problem is that I haven’t really started coding as yet. Well, that won’t take much time. Getting up to speed with a syntax of a new language becomes really simple once you have coded in C and C++ for more than 2 years.

Anyway, to start blogging was my 1st step. To make my personal web site (and definitely not like the typical ones that you know as ’students’ homepages’ on any university/department website) This is one of the reasons why I say I am one of the fortunate ones. I never learned to make a site like that I would rather remain ‘homepageless’ than design a site like that.

Well, I took one little step towards it already. I registered a domain name of my last name form the Microsoft OfficeLive website for free! Well, it still holds the default webpage but I plan to change them very soon….

(Oh heck..i just remembered…it’s summer. This blog will remain incomplete until the end of summer …look out for the updated blog very soon)

Siddharth Khimsara