http://joi.ito.com/archives/2004/12/19/the_edge_of_orkut.html The Edge of Orkut On December 19, 2004 Joi Ito reached Orkut's limit for number of friends (1024) and asks: "What do I do with my Orkut network now that I'm ''done''?" From the replies to this post I like those: - 1- Sell it on eBay ! (François Granger) (later replies include offers in $$) - 23- [...] Tell Orkut to up the limit. 1000 friends is so 1998. I mean, how do you throw a party with just a thousand friends? [...] (Phil Wolff) - And on January 4, 2005 07:39 PM Darwin, in reply number 31, pointed out the reason why there are social networking sites.
To remember:
Orkut started somewhere January 2004: http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3302741 Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service By Danny Sullivan, Editor January 22, 2004 "Google has quietly released a social networking service called orkut, named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google software engineer who developed the project during personal time allowed to him by Google. ..."
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I like this one.
Written on 01/07/05 at 16:50:46 GMT by Jos
By Julian Bond
" 1024 is deeply suspect. This is what happens when you let Geeks build social software. 2^10 friends indeed. Joi must have at least 2^16 people who can answer the multiple question "Are You My Friend? Yes:No" with 1 instead of 0. "
multiple question ?
Written on 01/09/05 at 02:06:13 GMT by mbu
I wondered what Julian Bond means with "multiple question". To me it looked more like a closed question. But no:
Or did Julian Bond mean a "multiple choice question" ?
multiple question vs multiple choice question
Written on 01/09/05 at 04:40:31 GMT by Norbert
Trizia wrote: "Or did Julian Bond mean a 'multiple choice question' ?"
No, I don't think so. A 'multiple choice question' would probably rather look like this: Are You My Friend? (select one) o Yes o No o Maybe later o Who are you ? o What is a friend ? o Next question please o Doesn't apply o Other
Instead, if asked "Are You My Friend? Yes:No", the answer "0" is a very sensible one: you signal that you regard it as too complex a question to be answered with such a simplistic answer. You actually un-question the question. I can't think up what you could mean by answering with "1", however.
I asked Julian Bond, here is his an excerpt from his reply:
[...] > in a thread about Joi Ito's "The Edge of Orkut" your reply " ... Joi >must have at least 2^16 people who can answer the multiple question >'Are You My Friend? Yes:No' with 1 instead of 0" was questioned whether >with "multiple question" you really meant "someone demands a simplistic >answer to a complex question." [...] Oh, good grief. It was a bit of bad grammar, OK? Still it gave somebody a laugh.
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