CommunityNews

CommunityNews

Orkut’s Founder Is Still Dreaming of a Social Media Utopia

In the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten’s self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he’s back, with a plan for a happier social media.

Read in full here:

This thread was posted by one of our members via one of our news source trackers.

Where Next?

Popular Science Tech topics Top

AstonJ
Was surprised to hear that only now can they actually detect speed signs and green lights :scream: :joy: Which got me thinking, do you...
New
First poster: bot
THIS MONTH we learned that Tesla, a $400 billion public company run by one of the richest people in the world, has done away with its med...
New
AstonJ
Films/TV Shows/games/Demo vids/4K Blur Rays/Anything :upside_down_face:
New
First poster: bot
A month into Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian troops stumbled upon a nondescript shipping container at an abandoned Russian command post outs...
New
CommunityNews
Amazon, Discord, Duolingo, and Google all started 2024 with layoffs. But the tech job market isn’t facing the same trouble it did last ye...
New
CommunityNews
An architect of the EU’s tough new Digital Markets Acts says Apple would be a logical first candidate for investigation under the law, wh...
New
CommunityNews
Aravind Srinivas grew up in the same city as Google’s CEO and developed an obsession with the company long before launching his own AI se...
New
First poster: Matisxo
The world’s most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after ...
New
CommunityNews
The US Senate voted to pass a bill that could see TikTok banned within a year, pitching creators and businesses dependent on the platform...
New
First poster: gflashner
TVs made by Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL are part of a ‘mass surveillance system,’ Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges.
New

Other popular topics Top

PragmaticBookshelf
Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, you’ll go beyond the syntax—and...
New
AstonJ
I’ve been hearing quite a lot of comments relating to the sound of a keyboard, with one of the most desirable of these called ‘thock’, he...
New
Exadra37
Oh just spent so much time on this to discover now that RancherOS is in end of life but Rancher is refusing to mark the Github repo as su...
New
AstonJ
We’ve talked about his book briefly here but it is quickly becoming obsolete - so he’s decided to create a series of 7 podcasts, the firs...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Rails 7 completely redefines what it means to produce fantastic user experiences and provides a way to achieve all the benefits of single...
New
AstonJ
Was just curious to see if any were around, found this one: I got 51/100: Not sure if it was meant to buy I am sure at times the b...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Author Spotlight Rebecca Skinner @RebeccaSkinner Welcome to our latest author spotlight, where we sit down with Rebecca Skinner, auth...
New
New
First poster: bot
zig/http.zig at 7cf2cbb33ef34c1d211135f56d30fe23b6cacd42 · ziglang/zig. General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaini...
New
Fl4m3Ph03n1x
Background Lately I am in a quest to find a good quality TTS ai generation tool to run locally in order to create audio for some videos I...
New