The success of Orkut has been quite centralized within India, Brazil etc and most importantly, very unlike Google, it has never come out of its limitations. However, this may just be the start when Google takes things seriously with this massively popular social networking site used by millions of people, as Google starts its Google Latitude service (that lets you see your friends' locations and status messages and share yours with them.) in orkut. Full article (161 words) »

Here is a case that can change the history of blogging for ever. How much do you think your freedom of speech can be extended in the blogosphere? Should there be a universal code of conduct? We believe it or not, but internet media is equally popular as any other notable printing media of any country. With the advent of social networking and more and more quality bloggers every day, the strength of pen is something which we need to consider. With great power, comes great responsibilities. But where to draw the line? Here is the real incident which I am gonna state and let you decide which side to vote. Full article (398 words) »

Twitter and Orkut have attracted millions of people in the world into social networking. To each, its own. Now is the time to join them so that you can display your Twitter in orkut profile too. It was much awaited as Twitter is already configurable with Facebook, Myspace and other notable social media networks.

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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. People target your friends and friends' friends through orkut message box automatically to send spam mails which are redirected to your (usually Gmail id) mail inbox. That surely doubles your annoyance. How do we prevent spam mails? Here is a simple solution.

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Social networking has a very important part to play in our lives now. Be it Facebook or Myspace or Orkut or Twitter - these sites are proving to be beneficial for both personal and professional purposes. We can not just ignore the fact that with each passing day, we are becoming addicted to these social networking services. So, is it bad? No way. But we must keep in mind that our sensitive personal and professional information are there inside our profile. In this world of prying eyes and ears, we need to take care of our profiles. So here are 8 very useful tips (better to call reminders) maintaining which can at least make you safe from your side.
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There is a very annoying feature at orkut now. You can not download any image file from Orkut directly from someone's album. You will have to save the whole HTML file instead or you will have to take screen-shots and then save it in paints and then crop it. Isn't it too tedious? The other day I saw a beautiful landscape in my friend's album and I had to tell him to send me the photo! So here is what I found to be a simple trick which can solve your problem within seconds.

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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. One doesn't need to have the same thing twice. So we don't need G Talk twice when its present separately, no? In last couple of weeks we had a number requests where people asked us to help them disable the chat option at orkut. Here is the trick.

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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.

Its been long since Orkut developers were requested to do something like this where the social networking lovers will not need two windows to swap between chatting and orkutting at the same time. And now it has finally come over.

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