Share links on Orkut with bookmarklet
If you are using Orkut a lot and come across a nice website or article online which you want to share with your Orkut friends you might have had to enter the link into everyones scrapbook or use various tools to send scraps to everyone.
Here is a neat way to do this different and with a lot of ease. It is a bookmarklet that you can have on your browser. When you come across a interesting link you want to share, just click on the bookmarklet and share what you like with your friends.
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.
Join New Orkut community and get invites
We have seen a phenomenol response to the New Orkut Invites give aways we announced on our blog. Most people who have used the New Orkut have not really complained about the format. We can safely say New Orkut is a hit. But there are still many comments and requests for invites. We have good news for you! 
If you want New Orkut invite, all you have to do is join the official Get the New Orkut community.
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
Winners for New Orkut Invitations
This is an update to our post announcing new Orkut invitation giveaway!
First, I must say response for new Orkut invitation is much more than we have expected earlier.
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.
Adieu to InsideOrkut – Greatest Orkut Blog Ever!
One of the greatest and first blog dedicated to orkut – InsideOrkut has been officially closed by its founder Darnell Clayton.
Darnell and his InsideOrkut inspired many geeks to start dedicated Orkut blogs. Gaurav Dua’s OrkutPlus is most notable of all of them. Darnell was the first person to tell me to go for professional blogging.
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