Orkut

E564968

Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google that was especially popular in Brazil and India during the mid-2000s.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Orkut canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf social networking service ⓘ
allowedThirdPartyApps yes ⓘ
authenticationMethod Google account ⓘ
commercial yes ⓘ
competitor Facebook ⓘ
Hi5 ⓘ
MySpace ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
creator Orkut Büyükkökten ⓘ
developer Google ⓘ
discontinuedDate 2014-09-30 ⓘ
hadSecurityIssues yes ⓘ
hadSpamProblems yes ⓘ
initialAccessModel invitation-only ⓘ
laterAccessModel open registration ⓘ
launchDate 2004-01-22 ⓘ
loginRequired yes ⓘ
mainUserBase Brazil ⓘ
India ⓘ
namedAfter Orkut Büyükkökten ⓘ
notableIn history of social networking ⓘ
operatedBy Google Brazil ⓘ
operatingLanguage English ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ
Portuguese ⓘ
other languages ⓘ
owner Google ⓘ
parentCompany Google ⓘ
peakPopularityPeriod late-2000s ⓘ
mid-2000s ⓘ
platform web ⓘ
providedFeature communities ⓘ
friend lists ⓘ
photo sharing ⓘ
scraps ⓘ
status updates ⓘ
testimonials ⓘ
user profiles ⓘ
video embedding ⓘ
reasonForShutdown competition from other social networks ⓘ
declining usage ⓘ
registration required ⓘ
shutdownAnnouncedBy Google ⓘ
shutdownAnnouncementDate 2014-06-30 ⓘ
successor Google+ ⓘ
supportedAdvertising yes ⓘ
userInteractionModel friend-based social graph ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Slide → platform → Orkut ⓘ
OpenSocial → supportedBy → Orkut ⓘ