Orkut shows off photo sharing with a video
Orkut has already introduced sharing of photos on its website. One great way to share pictures on your Orkut profile is to share them directly from Picassa.
Sharing images is very vital for any social network and sharing them easily across the board is more important. We already use Twitter and Facebook without visiting their websites but actually doing so through their APIs on various websites.
Orkut Enabled Audio and Video chat from Orkut Web Page
Orkut enabled chat option long time back, recently Orkut introduced a new feature in chat option, i.e. Video and audio conversation.
To enable the video chat in orkut you need to install this small plugin from official page.
According to official orkut announcement:
Orkut is all about keeping people connected, and a lot of people use orkut’s voice and video chat to stay in touch.
Is the New orkut a clone of ‘Facebook’
You may have heard about the tight competitions between orkut and facebook. Now as a part of their competition, Orkut has updated it’s look and functions. Most of them are similar to that of Facebook. I have found several similarities and now, Let us just run through the 5 major similarities between new orkut and facebook ;
1) Status Updating System :
This is one of the best feature provided by the Facebook. Orkut has started it before, but it was not that much effective.
Promote your products through Orkut – Free Advertising on orkut for it’s members
Facebook have been well known for sharing web pages. Due to this reason, it has been a favorite place of bloggers. I felt pity for Orkut, which don’t have such options. But now orkut, under Google has entered this field with more and more facilities.
Today when i was browsing through my friends profiles, i stunned to see the pic of one of my friend and his blog on the ad-section of my page. I thought that he had started to use adwords.
Get some more invitations to try the new orkut
First of all congrats to all the Winners for New Orkut Invitations. But we have some more invites for you too as usual you have the easiest way of getting it.
How to register for new invites?
Copy the text and links given below:
Get some more invitations to try the new orkut http://bit.ly/TAvk9
5 Ways to Save Orkut Photos
View Page Info- >Media: On Firefox Right Click on any area on the page containing photo, Select View page info and select the second tab.
ie.Media. Scroll to find the picture you were looking for. All you have to do now is click “Save As”.
View Page Source: Using this method fetches the same link as the previous method but works on several browsers.
Grease Monkey & Orkut Manager: Using custom java script on Firefox you can Add a get image link at the end of photo.
Get invitation to try new Orkut
Contest Update 1: The Contest is now closed and the first 9 valid entries will be invited. Link to the Orkut profile has been removed as the contest is now over.
Contest Update 2: 9 Orkut users has been invited. Check this post announcing winners list!
I have realized that ever since the last post on how Orkut has a new layout, I have got quite a few friends asking for a invitation to be sent to them.
New Orkut layout is out
Orkut has started sending out selected invites to some of its users to try out its new layout. I got the invite thanks to Rahul Bansal. The layout is pretty good and handy and with a lot of changes.
Why orkut is so popular in ‘Afghanistan’
We all know that Orkut is so popular in Brazil and most of the users of Orkut write their native country as “Brazil”. But did you know that Afghanistan is the seventh most popular country worldwide that uses Orkut? It’s so weird but this is correct, according to Orkut’s demographics, Afghanistan is the seventh most popular country in the world.
Well the reason behind this is that “Afghanistan” word comes on the top in the list of countries if we consider alphabetically.
Orkut’s first ever community
On Orkut, we create new communites, or join any community randomly. But do you know which was the first community created on Orkut and by whom?
Before telling about that let’s see how can we find the first, second or any community we want. To do so just go to any community and copy the url from the adress bar.
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