Orkut Champ wishes our very own orkut a very very wonderful Happy Birthday, Yes it has been four years since orkut has been with us, really it has been four years since we have been scrapping here almost all the time, we have used scrapbooks more than expected even by the orkut creater itself! Third year has been a year of lot of modifications for orkut and a lot of improvements have taken place which we all have appreciated and used widely, So Orkut Champ wishes Orkut a very very Happiest Birthday To Orkut. May God and Google bless you!!!
Here is what Official Orkut Blog, PostedYou may have noticed that the orkut logo looked a little different when you signed in today -- and if the four candles on the cake didn't give it away already, it's our fourth birthday. That's right, 2/5ths of a decade ago, orkut launched. It's grown up pretty fast, with many more features, communities, friends, photos and since it first opened as an invite-only community. Whether you've been with us for years or days, thank you for being a part of the orkut community!
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Happy Birthday To Orkut - 4 years old - 24th jan, 2008
Year 2007 for Orkut
Official orkut blog take a review for what the 2007 year has meant for orkut. We have seen many changes in the orkut
the ones that are highlighted in this post at Official Orkut Blog can be Summarized are:In January,
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orkut SMS integration with Claro
February
launched integration with Google Video and YouTube
March
Orkut Buyukkokten, the creator of orkut.com, visited Brazil for the first time. If you missed the visit you can check out the community and the photo album.
April
Community Polls were enabled
May
feed integration
June
launched official blog
July
receive the award for "Best Social Networking Site!"
August
launched the visual redesign
September
updates from your friends added
October
100 photos in your album
November
Google made the announcement that orkut would be opening up to developers through OpenSocial.
December
new privacy features
Find Gmail contacts on Orkut
(Orkut Help Center) Can I find out which of my Gmail contacts use orkut? 
Well this is the new feature in orkut, and will be very useful if you have a friends or contacts on gmail but not on the orkut...you can easily find them by using this feature.
How to use this Feature...
Just click Find and add them...
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To see which of your Gmail contacts already use orkut, follow these steps:
1. On the left side of the homepage, you'll see a "find friends" box; enter your Gmail username and click "find".
2. On the next screen, your Gmail contacts who are already orkut members but aren't in your friends list will be displayed.
3. Select people you'd like to add as friends on orkut and click "add selected friends".
If you don't want to add anyone on this list as an orkut friend, you can skip the first step and move on to sending new orkut invites.
To send orkut invitations to your Gmail contacts who aren't on orkut yet, follow these steps:
1. Select those contacts you'd like to invite.
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter a word verification in the text box. (You can write a personal message in your invites at this time.)
3. Click "send invitations".
(Orkut Official Blog) One of the nice things about Gmail is that it adds the names of the people you have been in touch with over the years as contacts in your address book. Wouldn't it be nice if you could automatically find those contacts on orkut? We've started rolling out a new feature to do just that. If you use a gmail address to log into orkut, finding your friends is now just a click away. The find friends button on the homepage, friends page or friends list page gets you started on importing contacts. Your gmail address is already filled in, and since you've already logged into orkut, we don't have to ask for your Gmail password once again. We'll show you the contacts who are already on orkut, and let you choose which ones to add as friends. For contacts who aren't on orkut yet, we make it easy to choose the ones you want to invite to orkut. You can even add a personal message to send with the invite. Soon, we'll be adding support to import your contacts from other email accounts.
Notes:
This feature is only available for your Gmail contact list. orkut doesn't import address books from other email servers at this time.
Your "find friends" feature will not appear if your orkut profile isn't linked to a Gmail account. You'll see an error if you try to access FindFriends.aspx directly.
Adding friends or sending new invites may be affected by daily limits. Try again tomorrow if you're not able to add everyone at once!
Google added News Feeds in Orkut Communities
Google has launched a news feed feature which will allow community owners to display News feed on their community as u can see in above pictures.(Official Orkut Blog) Well, now you can stay up to date on news from within your community, because community owners can now display a news feed on that subject within the community. So while you talk to your fellow members, you can see what's in the news on the same subject, without leaving orkut.
To add this feature in your community just enable it by going to edit profile option on the left side
and enable the option for customized news which is disabled as default and just give a name to your customized news.. for e.g. you can give it the same name as your community...
and voila... thats it...
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Orkut added New Features Survey, Do Vote!
There is a poll going on at this orkut help page. You can participate in the poll and suggest new features which could make orkuting more enjoyable.
So, participate and spread a word, as it is likely that any of these features will be implemented only if considerable orkut audience will participate.
Click Here To Navigate To Suggestion/Poll Page
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Orkut Removed From Google Homepage
May be google just forgot to add Orkut to their international page drop down menu, or may be just they are updating their search engine, since orkut is the fastest growing community and favorite social networking site. it should be featured in the list by google. May be they will add it after some time...
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