We all know that Facebook has already surpassed Orkut as the most visited social network website in India where Orkut used to be the most visited social network once! The war is still not over and Facebook now wants to leap frog Orkut. Well, not that Orkut kept quiet, they too have taken counter steps to check facebook’s growth but have not made much of a difference.

And now Google is trying yet another strategy to give a jump to Orkut’s usage graph by launching a cool orkut extension for Google Chrome Browser (Download).

This Orkut extension puts an orkut icon next to Google Chrome browser’s address bar which shows the number of new updates from your friends on Orkut (something Facebook already has had for long). On clicking the icon, you can see a drop-down menu with links to your friends’ profiles and other Orkut links. Some other features of this extension are:

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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is changing its ways. Well, on the technology front. Once shy of state-of-the-art technology, the Sangh on Tuesday celebrated its annual Bharat mata pujan function in Lower Parel taking help of the social networking website, Orkut.Insiders believe.

That the organisation has started transforming itself into a technology savvy outfit as a number of IT professionals have associated themselves with it in the past five years or so.The Bharat mata pujan function is organised on January 26 every year. The swayamsevaks garland a photograph of Bharat mata and then officials deliver bouddhik (lecture).

“We have a community on Orkut. We invited members of the community for the function through the network. A member of this community is not necessarily a swayamsevak. In fact, more than 30 people present for the function came in touch with RSS for the first time on Tuesday,” said Praful Nikam, organiser of the function.

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Tomorrow India will witness their 61st Republic Day and tomorrow every citizen will yet again enthralled by the performance in Republic Day.

But those who can’t attend any ceremony live in the grounds, they can directly wish others with the greeting cards and the orkut graphic scraps to show the dedication towards the own country.

Tomorrow Flag Hoisting Ceremony will be done by Hon’ble President of India Followed by Republic Day Parade from Rajpath. This year the Main Guest will be President of  Republic of  Korea.

Today Smt Pratibha Patil addressed the country on this occasion. You can watch this speech here.While in the previous article, one of our writer has already posted some of the famous SMS that you will like to send to your friend. Get it here    Coming to the Greeting Cards and Graphic Scraps. You can get it here.

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6 years ago, on January 22, 2004, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten creates a small concept of global social networking and site designed in such a way that it help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships with slogan of ‘who do you know?’

As of December 2009, Orkut has more than 80 million active users worldwide. Most of the Orkut users are from Brazil (51.09%), India (20.02%) and United States with 17.28 percent. Today Google celebrating Orkut’s 6th birthday!

In those 6 years Orkut adopts many new features including twice redesign. On August 31, 2007 announced the initial release of Orkut in 6 new Indian languages, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu and other features includes, Videos or pictures posting, personalization theme support, video chat, friend’s updates and many more…

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Hey... how come you are not on Orkut?” a friend asked me anxiously a few years ago when the Orkut fever was just seeping in the virtual world and I wasn’t aware of its hysteria yet. “What’s that?” I asked in return. The expression of sheer disbelief on his face after hearing my question forced me to check out what Orkut was all about. Once I did, I got hooked on to it too, just like the others.

But my excitement and addiction died down just as fast it had developed. Getting in touch with long-lost friends, seeing a new scrap in your scrapbook everyday from someone or the other, receiving flattering testimonials from friends — all the thrills and frills overtook one aspect: lack of privacy. ‘Accessibility of your info to one and all’ was what made me go off Orkut and I am not the only one.

Minaish Lakdawalla, a student, shares similar reasons for a switch over to Facebook from Orkut. “I had joined Orkut for recreation as I like chatting with people. But after a while, there were a lot of profiles of my friends which were hacked and the pictures were being misused due to no privacy settings. So, I stopped using it. The Facebook is not safe either, but it’s more private than Orkut,” she says.

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Google has fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google Orkut a security researcher said could be used to steal cookies and other information.

Nir Goldshlager, who also recently uncovered vulnerabilities affecting Google Calendar and Twitter, told eWEEK the problem was due to an input validation error.

"An attacker will exploit the vulnerability if a user clicks a malicious link," he explained in an e-mail. "When the user clicks on the malicious link that has the same (true) Web address name the (cross-site scripting attack) will be run on his client (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox) and will send his cookies (and) session ID to the attacker's evil site."

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When Google went public in 2004, its brilliant founders Segey Brin and Larry Page spoke about their idealism in the IPO document:

“Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served-as shareholders and in all other ways-by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains.”

While Google has enriched our lives in millions of ways, its shiny idealism is looking less bright when rubbed against the cold, hard politics of markets like China and India.  Techgoss had reported earlier how Google India had cooperated with the authorities in handing over information about Indians who had criticized our freedom heroes and even Sonia Gandhi.

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Orkut recently announced the launch of orkut video chat, an easy way to get in touch with your family and friends that to face-to-face, directly from your orkut pages.

To chat face to face with your family and friends you just need to have a webcam & a microphone connected to your computer and a small plugin that is available for free at www.google.com/chat/video. The next step will be to validate your e-mail address on orkut as to be able to chat or video chat on orkut.

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The cops at the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) are getting smarter by the day. After busting many a rave in the past with the help of information posted on internet forums, officers are now creating fake accounts on popular social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut to fish out New Year parties where drugs are likely to be consumed.

According to them, such private parties are being promoted through members of social networking sites amongst their friends and other members who are part of their group.  Officials are hence keeping a close watch on the activities and communication on social networking sites by registered members.

There are several communities created by members for New Year parties, some of which, officials believe, are a guise for inviting patrons for a rave party. Invites or tickets for the biggest rave parties busted in the past were sent through social networking sites, or links through posted on them, which would then connect the person to some other website.

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By the end of this year Google will release the new Orkut for all users. The information was disclosed in a press release and the decision was taken due to positive feedback from users and the good results obtained by the company.

Initially the release of the service will be gradual. People will use a button on the top of the page that allows access to the new version of the social network. For now, the two versions of Orkut available.  News  The new interface of Orkut was announced in late October in order to facilitate navigation and personalize the service.

"Orkut has a navigation three times faster. It will be much easier to make updates, download videos and photos, "said Victor Ribeiro, director of Google products, no time of launch.  Another concern was Google invest in security in the new version, since Orkut is known for fake profiles and malware.

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