Only a day after its launch, I’m in at Orkut. Not exactly a fantastic honor, I guess, to join another social networking site that blatantly plays off Google’s failed attempt to buy Friendster (and co-opts questions from Spring Street), but hey — if you want an invite, just ask. And, as the techies point out, Friendster has some serious scalability issues (the database just isn’t up to handling five million users, the search capabilities aren’t capable of generating useful results), whereas Google is excellent at keeping on top of the world without a hitch.