Meryl's Notes Blog

Last weekend, I suddenly got a bunch of invitations to Orkut, yet another friend slash network site. First reaction was, “Not another one. I belong to too many of them and never use them - except Ryze.”

Went on about my work. Later, when I got a free moment (a miracle in itself), I went ahead and clicked on the link to check out Orkut and register. There’s something about it - it’s easy to use and cleaner than the others. I guess that’s no surprise considering it’s from the folks to brought you the letter G as in Google.

Though I will accept invitations from friends and colleagues at all the sites, I plan to use Ryze and Orkut the most. Ryze has introduced me to a few good people with whom I’ve met. I haven’t been good about networking there in the last few months due to an overhwhelmed schedule.

Nothing has happened at Orkut yet, except I was pleasantly surprised to have a couple of fans within a day of registering. But it looks like after a busy two or so days of receiving and sending invitations, it has died down.

As usual, Microsoft has gotten into the game as it refuses to miss out on any opportunity. But I’ll have you know I’ve yet to register with their copycat networking site with a name I can’t remember without searching for it. Ah ha! It’s Wallop. If you think about it, most of the networking sites’ names don’t sound like networking sites except for LinkedIn and Friendster, except the latter but it sounds more like dating and friendship than networking.

Yeah, I know Chris posted about this, but I had planned on it before I saw his entry! Honest! Anyhoo, I agree with him that we need a Trillian-like program to connect ‘em all in one spot.