This is just great orkut is not only helping people in socializing with their friends but people are also logging on to share not only their personal problems but also to find solutions for them.
"Orkut has been a great strength of support for me. I had lost all faith in destiny till I logged on to a kidney transplant community where people with similar problems pepped me up by writing down their experiences," says Sarath Kumar from Hyderabad.
Sarath, who is looking out for a kidney donor for himself adds, "They were people who told me what to do, what all precautions I should take and even suggested names of some good doctors that I could get in touch with."
There are many communities on orkut which are not only filling in their members to show off, but they are really and truly helping people which are having the problems and they are collectively finding solutions for it.
Not only do these communities attract a large number of members who indulge in periodical discussions to offer help to the one seeking, many also take part in these discussions as non-members.
"The whole purpose of my community has been to reach out to people who face similar problems. Many of the freshers had joined my community and we discussed everything from anti- ragging rules to how to go about with their admission procedure," says Sashank Nair, who had set up a community for first year under-graduate students.
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Orkut Helping people finding solutions to problems
Orkut Applications soon to go public
Well as i have mentioned in my previous posts that 2008 stores many new changes for the orkut. This is about to be true with google planning to release many applications that were being tested on Orkut Sandbox,
Official Google BlogStarting this month, we're enabling developers to make their social applications available to orkut users. We'll start ramping up to more than 50 million people over the next few weeks.
To prepare for this growth, we're now accepting social applications. For a while now, developers have been able to write, test, and play with applications on orkut. Later this month, however, we're going to start rolling them out to orkut users. OpenSocial developers can submit their completed applications.
Well it would definitely be very interesting to see many new applications for the orkut, the site which really rocks the world!!!
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Save your orkut account from being hacked
Many of us do search on how to save our orkut passwords from being hacked, but for this purpose my friends we should know how they actually gets hacked yes this may stream strange, but in India there is a filmy saying "zehar hi zehar ko marta hai", which means poison can be cured by poison only, so for saving our accounts from being hacked we should actually first know how to hack an orkut account. I was searching some stuff on youtube when i actually got this video, which i would like to share all of you and i hope you also learn about how our accounts got hacked! Ya i know its little geeky but i guess we all have some kind of technical knowledge :)
Credit for this video goes to the video creator, thanks a bunch to him, I hope you like this video and if you did why not you comment about it :)
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Orkut Scrap Stats - Amazing
Well Orkut has been used for sending scrap by millions of users all around the world but google decided to look into who has been sending what scraps to others and they have come with amazing results,
Official Orkut Blog Posted:Women receive just under half (48%) of all scraps. Women from the Cayman Islands receive the most, followed by those from the British Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, San Marino, and the Northern Mariana Islands. (What is it about those islanders?) Albanian women had the fewest scraps (81) -- still a pretty substantial number when you think about it.
Country (gender) Scraps received Scraps received (women) Scraps received (men) Grenada 1877 557 2569 Cayman Islands 861 1093 715 Pakistan 758 717 779 United States 423 249 578 India 345 443 301 Brazil 267 272 263 Out of a sample of 1,000,000 short scraps, the following were among the most common:
scrap # of occurrences hi 1131 oi [hi] 689 ok 298 parabens [congratulations] 273 . 187 hello 184 =] 146 vlw [thx] 135 ^^ 133 blz [ok] 132 =) 124 :) 117 [:p] 115 =D 115
Well amazing na, i did not knew that Indian people are sending this less scraps, Come On Guys, Chak De....
Happy Birthday To Orkut - 4 years old - 24th jan, 2008
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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Orkut SMS in India, only in Gossips so far
Being the Second largest orkut user base Indians are eagerly waiting for the Orkut SMS feature and now i have just read a post on a blog saying that Google had a talk with Airtel (number one telecommunication company in India) for launching the Orkut Mobile SMS in india. But till now no official confirmations have come and no indication has been given by google till now in this area. But lets hope for the best and these rumors or Gossips can only be stopped when some official news is aired from the google. Lets hope for the best!!! Google might just give this feature as its Birthday Cake to Indian Users. Click Here to Read more!
