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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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In a viral
Orkut was launched on January 22, 2004 by Google as independent project of Orkut Büyükkökten, The community membership was originally by invitation only. Orkut's explanation for invitation
" Orkut is unique, because it's an organically growing network of trusted friends. That way we won't grow too large, too quickly and everyone will have at least one person to vouch for them. If you know someone who is a member of Orkut, that person can invite you to join as well. If you don't know an Orkut member, wait a bit and most likely you soon will. We look forward to having you as part of the Orkut community."
At first year, United States had the largest user base. By word of mouth various Brazilians began adopting and inviting more friends, in a viral driven by the blogosphere. Soon after, Brazil surpassed U.S. in number of users and Orkut started becoming heavily popular in Brazil. Americans then started leaving the service and switching to other similar sites such as MySpace and Friendster. This phenomenon was covered by the English blogosphere with some criticism towards Brazilians [8][9][10] because they tended to communicate (not only among themselves) using their native language Portuguese and not English.
Source : Wikipedia
Could you please explain to me the emboldened parts?
I guess "blogosphere" means "a social networking kind of site" though.
" Orkut is unique, because it's an organically growing network of trusted friends. That way we won't grow too large, too quickly and everyone will have at least one person to vouch for them. If you know someone who is a member of Orkut, that person can invite you to join as well. If you don't know an Orkut member, wait a bit and most likely you soon will. We look forward to having you as part of the Orkut community."
At first year, United States had the largest user base. By word of mouth various Brazilians began adopting and inviting more friends, in a viral driven by the blogosphere. Soon after, Brazil surpassed U.S. in number of users and Orkut started becoming heavily popular in Brazil. Americans then started leaving the service and switching to other similar sites such as MySpace and Friendster. This phenomenon was covered by the English blogosphere with some criticism towards Brazilians [8][9][10] because they tended to communicate (not only among themselves) using their native language Portuguese and not English.
Source : Wikipedia
Could you please explain to me the emboldened parts?
I guess "blogosphere" means "a social networking kind of site" though.
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I found this: viral Originally coined as part of the phrase 'viral marketing', the term "viral" has expanded to mean any form of reoccurring practice that moves a product around from person to person. Because it is easy to copy and forward information on the net, anything that piques netizens'' interests may get passed around very quickly. com posts a funny video, and the next thing you know you re viewing it with a group of people at work, that s known as a viral video.
- I found this: viral Originally coined as part of the phrase 'viral marketing', the term "viral" has expanded to mean any form of reoccurring practice that moves a product around from person to person.
- Because it is easy to copy and forward information on the net, anything that piques netizens'' interests may get passed around very quickly.
- com posts a funny video, and the next thing you know you re viewing it with a group of people at work, that s known as a viral video.
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I found this:
viral
Originally coined as part of the phrase 'viral marketing', the term "viral" has expanded to mean any form of reoccurring practice that moves a product around from person to person. Because it is easy to copy and forward information on the net, anything that piques netizens'' interests may get passed around very quickly. For example, if someone o
viral
Originally coined as part of the phrase 'viral marketing', the term "viral" has expanded to mean any form of reoccurring practice that moves a product around from person to person. Because it is easy to copy and forward information on the net, anything that piques netizens'' interests may get passed around very quickly. For example, if someone o
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