Orkut gets Google Latitude App

December 2nd, 2008 Now you can chat with your friends at orkut just as you do in Google Talk, but without logging into your G-talk account separately. Your orkut account gives you the facility to log in to your page and chat with friends in real time just as you will love to do in messengers.

December 15th, 2008 We were the first to come out with the chat integration feature of orkut. But almost immediately I realized that it is going to be a big source of irritation for the users.

December 20th, 2008 There is a very annoying feature at orkut now. You can not download any image file from Orkut directly from someone's album.

June 20th, 2006 A new Internet worm capable of stealing bank details and other personal data from users is circulating via Orkut, Google's social networking service, FaceTime Communications, Instant-messaging service provider, warned on Monday. FaceTime said its software security lab had detected the spread of the electronic virus, the third such threat to disseminate itself via messages posted on Orkut users' personal Web pages.

January 22nd, 2004 Google decided to jump into the social networking bandwagon with the launching of Orkut. Social networking can have a big impact on search engine results as the user's home pages on social networking sites such as Ryze & Friendster are closely connected to each other.

January 21st, 2009 Twitter and Orkut have attracted millions of people in the world into social networking. To each, its own.

July 24th, 2005 Brazilian police arrested 10 people on Thursday accused of selling drugs using Google's international social networking site Orkut, which is hugely popular in the Latin American country. "We discovered the drug ring first via authorized phone tapping, and later the investigation included monitoring of their activities on the Internet," said a duty officer at the Drugs Enforcement Service in the city of Niteroi, just across the bay from Rio de Janeiro.

January 20th, 2009 I am sure that you usually get at least one spam mail a day from Orkut. Even GMail which perhaps has the best filtering capability of spam mails, stands helplessly in front of such backdoor attacks.

October 24th, 2005 Advertising from Google and its network partners sites displaying its ads accounted for most of the company's earnings. Google posted revenues of $1.578 billion for the quarter ending September 30, 2005, up 96% from the third quarter of 2004.

August 8th, 2006 Google has reached a deal with the owner of MySpace.com (News Corp.) to pay at least $900-million in shared advertising revenue and become the exclusive search provider for the popular online hangout. The deal, which marries the Internet's leading search engine with the top social-networking site, means News Corp.

September 24th, 2007 My public profiles on 9 popular social networking sites: LinkedIn - I have started adding my friends to this. Found some old IITians from this network.

September 9th, 2009 Well, I had a tough time convincing some of my Indian friends that Facebook has far more users than Google's Orkut.  Although Orkut and Facebook was launched almost at the same time, way back in the first quarter of 2004, the later has earned  of popularity beating the giant social network like MySpace. With over 230 million active users Facebook has been dominating the social networking sphere world-wide.

April 5th, 2005 Is there a broader plan behind latest Google innovations? At first sight some of them seems random addition to the Google family (20% effort or not) and somewhat unrelated to its search focus. Lets scan Google News lately: Google Maps now has a satellite Google Ride Finder - Builds on top of Google Maps to show you the live positions of various taxis in your area.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

May 9th, 2005 Discussion on the current coma of Google Web Accelerator...