The allegations made by What should Orkut do? about Orkut popularity and the reason it’s not popular in the U.S. anymore have been confirmed by the renowned Forbes magazine. The article is very analytical and shows it’s possible to make a better Orkut with high profits to the company (we hope Google CEO has read Forbes’ article).
Here goes some pieces of the article:
"Orkut’s Brazilians and other foreign users could also be a significant source of revenue, argues Greg Sterling, a consultant with Sterling Market Research. "If you’ve got the ad coverage, an international user is as valuable as anyone," he says."
The reason Google must invest efforts in quality improvement initiatives on Orkut and start to places ads on communities and profiles. Ads must be discreet and harmonic with the design. It’s easier now the new Orkut look is designed in white. Fake profiles and evil communities must be deleted as well as users involved with these activities must be banned from the website and arrested in case they’re involved with criminal activities.
"[...]Google, which won’t disclose Orkut’s revenue numbers, has recently been putting more of its massive resources behind the site. On top of this week’s redesign, the company last year sponsored a social networking project at Carnegie Mellon to develop a tool meant to improve Orkut’s domestic popularity. The result was Socialstream, a prototype for a site that allows users to post text and multimedia content to a single page, then syndicate that content to any social network where they have a profile."
It means Google has finally realized Orkut has potential, that’s why the company has redesigned the website to look likes more professional than that baby blue thing. Now Orkut must work on privacy and security.
Silicon Valley: one of the wonders of capitalism. The anti-globalization activists forget internet technologies (which they use to spread their demagogy against globalization) would never be developed in another economic system.
"Until now, Orkut has been an also-ran in the U.S. because it’s been neglected by Google," Sterling says. "But with just a few tweaks and redesigns, and in combination with all of Google’s services, it has the potential to really differentiate itself from MySpace and Facebook."
The confirmation about the reasons why Orkut has been kicked out of the United States of America just like we allegated on last edition. It’s an incontestable evidence that Google will be recompensed with profits by improving Orkut. When it happens everyone will realize capitalism is a fair system that recognizes those who work and have great ideas for making a difference.