Google fixing bugs in Orkut social network

Google’s Orkut social networking site has been beset with bugs lately, leading the company to apologize for spotty service.

Orkut is an on-line community intended to make participants’ social life more active and stimulating. The Orkut engineering team is working to address recent issues with the site, stated Eduardo Thuler, Orkut product manager at Google, in a blog post on Friday. He cited issues related to the frequent updating of open source software as a factor.

“First, Orkut is based on open source software that is subject to frequent updates, which we then pull and merge into the Orkut code tree. A result is that this can sometimes makes bugs harder to discover and fix. We accidentally began overwriting user app preferences, which resulted in the activity updates not getting posted, but this has now been fixed,” Thuler said.

[ Als on InfoWorld: Orkut was hit by a worm in 2007. | Despite its size, Google has a fight on its hands in creating a Facebook killer ]

“The Orkut engineering team has been hard at work addressing some recent issues and we would like to provide a status update and apologize for the inconvenience our spotty service may have caused you,” he said.

Google also has had to deal with getting viewer and owner information via data pipelining, a process that broke. The company was working to fix this as of Friday, according to Thuler.

This article, “Google fixing bugs in Orkut social network,” was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter and on your mobile device at infoworldmobile.com.

Read more about applications in InfoWorld’s Applications Channel.

additional resources White Paper

Get the independent advice and expertise you need to support a virtual workforce.

Go inside: The three-step approach to making a virtual workforce a reality. The four flavors of client virtualization technologies. The three key initiatives that solve IT challenges. Download now » White Paper

The increase in Linux popularity has increased the frequency and sophistication of malware attacks. Read this 2 page white paper now to learn how you can protect your Linux environment with real-time protection that is certified by all major Linux vendors.

Download now » White Paper

Ensuring acceptable application delivery will become even more difficult over the next few years. As a result, IT organizations need to ensure that the approach that they take to resolving the current application delivery challenges can scale to support the emerging challenges. This handbook elaborates on the key tasks associated with planning, optimization, management and control and provides decision criteria to help IT organizations select appropriate solutions.

Download now » White Paper

A common misconception is that mid-range storage requirements are dramatically different than that of a bigger enterprise. Mid-range storage users may require less capacity, but they have similar functionality and management requirements. This ESG paper examines mid-range storage needs and reviews a new solution that adjusts size while retaining value, performance and functionality.

Download now »