orkut (http://www.orkut.com/), on the other hand. Who actually has an orkut account and uses it? Then again, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't orkut the only Google site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_services_and_tools) built on ASP.net?
These things tend to take off in one community and not another. I know for a while the orkut community drew in a lot of technical types, especially in the computer security sector. Friendster has a big following in the bay area, even amoung non-techies (well, as much as there are "non-techies" in the bay area). Seems like people in Hawaii like MySpace. Obviously people want to sign up to the social network that all their friends are already on. Personally, they all look like big information gathering utilities to me. Not sure what's so great about BBS's. I already have teh email and teh interweb. Tim Newsham http://www.lava.net/~newsham/
