January 28, 2004
Orkut is back - but don't patronize me
From: "orkut" <admin@orkut.com> To: "stevenn@outerthought.org" <stevenn@outerthought.org> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:49:12 -0800 Subject: orkut - We're back Message-ID: <EDA3fc71fbfc96054271920f6691f2e44a34@eda3>Dear Steven,
We're back!
The response to orkut has been phenomenal, and we're
learning a lot about what people like and expect from
a service like this. Thanks for all your feedback so
far -- we've really loved your suggestions.
Huh. I did gave feedback and reported spamming and abuse of their system as it went life. I wasn't the only one, I guess, and there were many bloggers commenting on their speedy, but unsafe operations. Reading upsofar however, no real reason for puking yet. Although it is very discomforting that they acknowledge they have no clue about where this is heading neither.
We took orkut.com offline for a while to build some new
features and do some general tweaking. We hope you'll
keep sending your ideas to us, because we want to make
orkut great for you. That said, we may need to take
orkut offline again for short periods to update it, so
please bear with us if it's temporarily unavailable.
Hopefully the changes will be worth the wait. We'll
see you on orkut soon...stay beautiful,
orkut.com teamhttp://www.orkut.com
This is plain crap, folks. Your system had serious security flaws and you had to take things down to get them fixed. Don't you dare admitting this because it might ignite a lack of trust towards your service? Guess what, there's people on this globe who don't like to be thought off as fools. Especially the audience you were targeting. Grace period is almost over: one really expects better stuff from 2400 Bayshore Parkway.