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vishu orkut scraps Vishu (Malayalam:) is a Happy Vishu Scraps vishu orkut scraps festival celebrated in the state of Kerala in South India. The same day is vishu orkut scraps also celebrated as New year in several other parts of India  such as Punjab (Baisakhi), Assam (Bihu), Tulu Nadu region in Karnataka where it is known as Bisu as well as in Tamil Nadu. Happy Vishu Scraps The festival marks the first day of Malayalam vishu orkut scraps Year and falls in the month of Medam (April – May). Vishu generally falls vishu orkut scraps on April 14 of the Gregorian calendar.

This Happy Vishu Scraps vishu orkut scraps occasion signifies the Sun's transit to the zodiac - Mesha Raasi vishu orkut scraps (first zodiac sign) as per Indian astrological calculations and astronomically vishu orkut scraps represents the vernal Happy Vishu Scraps equinox. "Vishu" in Sanskrit means "equal". Therefore Vishu is more probably denoting one of the equinox days. Although Vishu (first of Medam) is the astrological new year day of Kerala, the official Malayalam new year falls on the first month of Chingam (August - September). However, 1st of Chingam has no significance either astrologically or astronomically. Chingam is the harvest season in Kerala and southern parts of coastal Karnataka. The most important event in vishu orkut scraps Vishu is the Vishukkani, which Happy Vishu Scraps literally " the first vishu orkut scraps to be seen on the Vishu day". The Vishukkani consist Happy Vishu Scraps of a ritual arrangement of auspicious articles like raw rice, fresh linen, golden cucumber, betel leaves, arecanut, metal mirror, the yellow flowers konna (Cassia fistula), and a holy text and coins, in a bell metal vessel called uruli in the puja room of the House. A lighted bell metal lamp called nilavilakku is also placed alongside.

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THE GENIE OF the Orkut  is back. This time with the untimely murder of a teeneger by his own "Orkut" friends. It is not the first time the social networking site has been dragged into the limelight. Few months back, thanks to Shiv Sena’s call to ban the Google’s social networking site it was in the news. At that time the Shiv Sena alleged that certain ‘communities’ have been using this common platform (Orkut) for insulting the party Supremo Bal Thackeray and Maratha idol, Shivaji.

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Facebook Bumps Orkut From Top Spot In India: Facebook was on its way to overtaking Orkut to become the most popular social  networking site in India. Recent research from comScore has revealed that Facebook  managed to bump Orkut off the top spot in July 2010.According to comScore statistics, Facebook  had 20.9 million unique users in India in July 2010, compared to 7.47 million in July 2009, while Orkut had 19.9 million users in July 2010 and 17.7 million users in July 2009. While both networks have shown growth in the last year, Facebook’s 179% growth far outstrips Orkut’s 16% growth rate.

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Scammers are tricking Orkut users into pasting malicious JavaScript code in their browser's address bar, with the promise of receiving a free recharge code for their mobile phones. Users who fall for the scam end up with their Google login credentials stolen.

It all starts with users receiving a link on Orkut that takes them to a website displaying a big banner that reads: "Recharge your mobile here!" According to information presented on this page, the user will receive a free recharge code in their Orkut scrapbook if they copy and paste some JavaScript code into the address bar.

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Facebook was recently in a big mess over privacy and Orkut is probably trying to gain some user love there. Today, Orkut has launched private scraps feature enabling users to send scrap just to their friend(s)  the scrap being invisible to the outside world.

To keep something secret, just send a private scrap to your friends, and just those people selected will see it. Yep, just them! Recipients can also reply, creating a completely private conversation. Orkut is taking the privacy game too seriously and each feature/piece of your content now has a privacy level. Orkut has also enabled auto-sharing of your YouTube activities on Orkut. So do all these privacy settings bring back the users? What else should Google do to Save Orkut?

I just had a look over what was happening with Google’s Orkut which was one of the most popular social networks in India and Brazil. It seems like things have changed and it has lost its majority user base to the largest social network  Facebook.According to Alexa  Orkut is almost dead as compared to it was an year back. It has lost a massive number of users who previously used to keep visiting the website after every few minutes.

But still they are in the game, the website still receives millions of pageviews every day which is enormous and it is still one of the top rankings websites in the world. Also we have not seen Google placing more importance over its social network.

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Hi friends, I know how crazy you are about orkut. Hmm ofcourse i know that you are also very much interested in new features of orkut. Here i will tell you, how to add images (pictures, photos) in Orkut About Me. Old Orkut don't have this feature, still you can enable this feature in your old Orkut. Follow simple steps as i explained below:

Login to your Orkut Account, after loggin in Pl. Switch to New orkut by clicking on "try the new orkut!" button which appears at the top of your profile. After switching to New Orkut, simply goto your profile page & edit it. After clicking on edit option you can find an option to Add Images, with that option you can upload your photo/picture directly toyour profile about me. After Uploading the picture Pl.

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We earlier published data from Google trends depicting the fall of Orkut in India [against the rise of Facebook] and while the blip seemed like a momentary lapse of traffic for Orkut, the truth is that it is not.

A month later, Facebook is still going strong, while Orkut is heading southwards.

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Orkut Team has released an Android App for all the orkut fanatics out there. This Android App sports many features like: 1. Live Folders:  You can now create a list of your favourite orkut friends.

As a live folder on your home screen through which you will be able to browse through your friends list even when there is no data connectivity. It also allows you to communicate with your friends via call, scrap or SMS in a single click.

To install a live folder, just visit “Menu > Add > Folders > Orkut” on your Android device’s homescreen after installing the application. 2. Photo uploads to your orkut albums: You can now directly upload photos from your Android Photo Gallery onto your Orkut Photo Albums.

Just click “Menu > Share > Orkut” after installing the application.   3. Scrap Notifications: This application also supports Scrap notifications. i.e. if you get any new scraps on your scrapbook, a notification will appear on your Android device notification bar, which on clicking will lead you to your scrapbook page.

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Facebook and Twitter are considered the easiest to use social networking sites but a substantial number of Internet users feel that no social networking sites are easy to use, according to new findings released today.

The social network usability poll, carried out by user experience consultancy, Webcredible, revealed that 50 per cent of respondents considered Facebook the easiest-to-use social network in a result that perhaps represents the popularity of Facebook rather than its actual user experience.

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