Blogs Posts in Updates category; 17 blog posts

Orkut Gets A Make-Over; What Should Orkut Do?

Google’s social networking platform Orkut is all set to get a make over by the end of this fortnight. Despite making several attempts, including giving away free movie tickets, the site continues to see a decline in popularity, if [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Struggling Orkut turns 7

Orkut, the social networking site from Google, which is struggling hard to hold its ground, turned 7 years on Monday. The site, which lost the number one spot in social networking platform following the assault by Facebook in recent time [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Google's Orkut Radically Changes Discourse In Brazil

To Brazil now and the story of a high tech partnership. The city of Belo Horizonte has long been in the technology business - trains, weapons during World War II and now information. Many years ago, a young Google set up shop in the city [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Farmville helped Facebook beat Orkut

However, in May this year, Facebook beat Orkut as the top social networking destination in India. Mumbai-based agency Komli Media’s Vizisense, which tracks web audience measurement in India, has now come out with some answers to ho [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Orkut users under phishing attack

Orkut users have lately been targeted with a clever scheme that redirects them to phishing pages without them having to do anything except visit a compromised account. Using malicious applications that were made available in the App [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Orkut might be losing its mojo in Brazil

Orkut remains a mystery to most analysts when it comes to its popularity in the Brazilian market. While Orkut has started to lose to Facebook in India, it remains the dominant social networking service in Brazil. However, things are chan [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Marissa Mayer: Orkut’s U.S. Failure Was Due To Slow Performa...

Today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Google’s Marissa Mayer took the stage to talk a bit with our own Michael Arrington. After she revealed a couple new Google Instant features, she went right into another t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Orkut hit by Bom Sabado worm!

Twitter recently had a JavaScript related problem and we now have a similar mess on Orkut. The service seems to have been hit by a worm named Bom Sabado. It creates a major mess on user profiles as it scraps the text ‘Bom Sabado&rs [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Reason Behind Success of Orkut

Despite many social networking sites before Orkut and many more coming into the fray later on, the reign of Orkut is not threatened for good and obvious reasons. In this article, we will be reading as to how come Orkut has been able to m [...]

Posted On : Sep, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Orkut Update: View Last Login Details

Beat Account Hijackers by knowing your last login time! This comes out to be of a great surprise to all the Orkut users. Orkut has recently rolled out a new feature, which allows you to see your last login time. This feature will not o [...]

Posted On : Nov, 07 2008 | Comments : 1

Orkut introduces automatic filter for sexual content

Google's social networking site Orkut has introduced what it describes as a "safety filter" that automatically filters out adult content such as sexually suggestive phrases or images.The filter has been introduced in India, and is [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2008 | Comments : 0

Online communities : Reaping the inherent potential

The cutting edge in technology has enabled cross-cultural communications with online communities gaining prevalence among the masses.The mediums which have been exploited to attract the online users are forums, blogs, podcasts, message boar [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2008 | Comments : 0

Yahoo Joins Google in Social Network Open Standard

Yahoo has agreed to work with Google and MySpace to promote a common set of software standards to make it easier to create applications for Internet social networks, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies said they are forming a n [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2008 | Comments : 1

A walk in cyberspace: 800 communities on Orkut related to Lu...

The city has not limited its interests just to cycles and hosiery. It seems Ludhiana has welcomed the internet bug with open arms. According to the latest data, there are nearly 800 communities on Orkut which are related to Ludhiana in so [...]