Brazil Internet Craze Angers English Speakers is a Reuters.com article about the flood of Brazilians writing in Portuguese on www.orkut.com. Orkut is a social-networking site supported by Google to which you have to be invited. Apparently Brazilians are now upsetting the English speakers as they dominate the site. Good for them, its the beginning of the internationalization of the net.
The idea of a social network site where you can’t get an account unless invited sounds interesting. Not sure what I would do at that site. What if we developed a new mini-Internet that way – one just for people who know people. A bit like the digital forbidden city in Gibson.
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