Google's 2004 social network — created by Orkut Büyükkökten — which dominated social networking in Brazil and India before Facebook's global expansion — one of the first social networks at Google-scale infrastructure.
Demonstrates the geographic concentration of early social networks — Orkut's massive dominance in Brazil (while ignored in the US) showed that social networks can have non-obvious geographic traction that defies the origin market.
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