{"id":19441,"date":"2014-07-01T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T09:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=19441"},"modified":"2014-07-01T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T09:15:54","slug":"google-to-shut-down-orkut-on-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/google-to-shut-down-orkut-on-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to shut down Orkut on September!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>#Tech:<\/strong><\/em> Google announced plans to shut down its first social-networking service- Orkut on September 30 after more than 10 years of service.<\/p>\n<p>Existing users will be able to export their information using Google Takeout, but new users are no longer able to create accounts. After September 30 users won\u2019t be able to log in anymore, photo export to Google+ will be unavailable, and all the APIs and other tools will go down. Orkut app will be removed from the Playstore too. Google will preserve all of the Orkut&#8217;s &#8216;Communities&#8217; in an archive and users can choose to opt-out by decoupling Orkut from their Google account.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut&#8217;s growth, we&#8217;ve decided to bid Orkut farewell,&#8221; Google said in a post on the Orkut blog<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orkut that started out as Google\u2019s \u201820 percent initiative\u2019 was one of Google\u2019s first attempts to launch a social network. Although it was popular in Brazil and India for a while, it never really caught on in the United States. In India, Orkut wasn\u2019t able to hold on long when Facebook finally overtook it in 2010. Today, 50% of Orkut users are still in Brazil, 20% in India and only 18% are from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Google launched Orkut in January 2004, the same year that Facebook, now the world&#8217;s No.1 social network, was founded. The month after Orkut was launched; Facebook went online at Harvard University and gradually came to dominate the social networking space. Orkut is not the only attempt Google made at embracing social networks. In 2010 Google tried again with Google Buzz to compete with Twitter but failed the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Many people started their social networking journey from Orkut. Are you one among them?\u00a0 <strong>Will you miss Orkut? Let us know in your comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Tech: Google announced plans to shut down its first social-networking service- Orkut on September 30 after more than 10 years of service. Existing users will be able to export their information using Google Takeout, but new users are no longer able to create accounts. After September 30 users won\u2019t be able to log in anymore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,5],"tags":[460],"class_list":["post-19441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google","category-technology","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}