Get more control over your Orkut Community!
Orkut’s “Shiv-Sena Hate Community” fiasco ended up creating a lot of chaos and insecurity amongst many community owners on Orkut. In order to maintain a civil and cohesive overall experience, and encourage active and engaged community online, Orkut has now introduced more controls for community owners.
Chat on Orkut without a Gmail Account
Most of you must have noticed that Google Talk was not available for chatting on Orkut for people who did not have a Gmail account. Thankfully, this will not be a hindrance for Orkut users any more.
Now, Google’s chat feature is being enabled for all Orkut users, irrespective of whether they have a Gmail ID or not.
Google Latitude… Now on Orkut! A fun way to share your live location with friends!
I’m sure most of you already know about Google Latitude through an earlier post on Orkut Diary.
It’s a feature of Google Maps for mobile, as well as an iGoogle gadget, that lets you share your live location with your friends (if you chose to share it with them) and also see their locations (if they choose to share it with you).
This fun application is now on Orkut too!
How To Hide Scrapbook Completely From Your Friends on Orkut!
Ketan Goyal and few other readers are interested in hiding their Orkut scrapbook from their Orkut friends.
Sometimes it happens that you get a friend request from a bully from your school or workplace. You love your privacy but you cannot reject his request as you are in same social circle.
[How To] Disable Google Talk Popup Chat Windows in Orkut
![orkut disable google talk popup 2 [How To] Disable Google Talk Popup Chat Windows in Orkut](http://www.orkutdiary.com/files/2009/04/orkut-disable-google-talk-popup-2.png "[How To] Disable Google Talk Popup Chat Windows in Orkut")
Sometime back Orkut added complete support for Google-Talk popup chat windows. This is different than earlier Google Talk integration where your Orkut friends gets added to Google Talk chat list automatically.
This recent integration opens all active Google Talk chat windows when you move from one Orkut window to another Orkut window seamlessly.
Orkut Introduced Inline Photo Commenting in Activity Stream
Activity stream or updates from friends on your Orkut homepage shows among other things photo related updates from your friend.
Earlier, if somebody post a comment on your friend’s you need to go to that photo to reply to it.
More Orkut Themes Released!
In my recent post published just 3-4 hours ago at Devils Workshop, I was talking about the old fashioned Gmail and Orkut themes that were making its users irritated. But if you are fascinated about themes feature, then its party time for you. 
After the release of customizable colors option in Gmail, even Orkut have got 3 brand new Carnaval themes. Here are a glimpse of all the three newly released Orkut themes.
Google Gears for Offline Orkut Communities?
Recently, one of our reader Jo has emailed us asking, Is there anyway to save orkut topics or download topics/forums to view offline later when there is no internet connection? As a temporary and ugly workaround, I suggested him, You can subscribe to RSS feed of individual topics and/or communities using our service Orkutfeeds. Then using Google Reader’s offline mode or any desktop reader, you can view updates later when there is no internet connection.
Now Backup list of your Orkut Friends on your Hard Disk!
Its not too long that, Orkut Plus launched a scrap backup tool called Scrap Backup mate using which it was possible to backup a copy of all the scraps of Orkut scrapbook locally (i.e. on your hard-disk). Because of a huge positive response to this awesome tool, OrkutPlus has recently developed another similar tool using which, you can backup the list of people in your Orkut Friend’s list along with the link to their Orkut profile and their name and E-mail Address.
Backup your Orkut Scraps using Scrap Backupmate
Guess what? You want to view all your scraps right from the day you created your Orkut account, or you just want to review all your scraps. Do you think this is possible? If you have a lots of scraps, say 5000 then to view the first scrap will you keeping turning pages of your scrap book till the last page? Not possible, right? But using Orkutplus’ new tool – Scrap backupmate all such things is really possible.
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