Hey guys, i have checked my profile views in firefox and internet explorer both and guess what now if i look at my profile views though it is showing since feb,06 oops i have not joined orkut by then the last week and since feb'06 figures are same. Please check is this some kind of virus in my computer or it is the bug that is happening with all of us, and please reply to this post after checking this will wait for your response friends!!!
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Orkut Profile Views Bug on home page
Orkut Helping people finding solutions to problems
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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Infostealer.Scrapkut new orkut Virus
This is a special warning to our Brazilian friends at orkut, in the previous post about w32.scrapkut virus a new component have been identified namely Infostealer.Scrapkut.
What does it do?
it intercepts login sessions of a number of Brazilian banking Web sites and then overlays certain sections with its own, fake authentication prompt, such as a keyboard:
The credentials are logged by the information stealer and the attackers are sent the details. Using a fake authentication prompts and targeting Brazilian banking Web sites.
Whats the risk to you?
if they get your bank account details, your savings will soon be lost! and that will count as your mistake cause you did not had your antivirus in place!!!
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W32.Scrapkut Orkut Worm spreading to millions of users
Friends how many of you have fallen victim to a worm, which apparently looks like this in your scrapbook, but let me warn you its a deadly worm, recently renamed to W32.Scrapkut, uses active code injection as a vehicle to propagate to the Orkut friends of its unfortunate victim.
Wondering how this thing happens, heres the whole story about it:
> a malicious scrap is posted to the victim’s scrapbook, containing a link to what appears to be a YouTube video
> When a victim clicks on the link, they are redirected to an external site which prompts them to download the file “flashx_player_9.8.0.exe”.
> When executed, flashx_player_9.8.0.exe retrieves the files windosremote.exe, logservicess.exe and win32chekupdate.exe from http://[REMOVED].ifastnet.com. These files download additional files that perform a variety of malicious actions, but logservicess.exe is the main executable for further propagation. Logservicess.exe first copies itself as maindwxp.exe to four different locations on the system to ensure it is executed on startup.
> Maindwxp.exe then checks in with the command and control server via a GET request with specific parameter values. Interestingly, the page returned simply contains the word “Rastreados” followed by a number. In Portuguese, “rastreados” means “crawled” - at last check the number was 13559.
> Maindwxp.exe then executes and begins checking for an active browser window, waiting for the victim to visit Orkut. Once the victim is in an authenticated Orkut session, maindwxp.exe injects Javascript code into the active Orkut web session.
> This Javascript code which is actually based on a popular Greasemonkey script is then executed within the context of the Orkut domain and the user’s authenticated session, resulting in the malicious scrapbook entry being sent to all the victims’ friends, and the cycle begins again.
This way the malicious worm is spreading virally on the orkut, So how you can be saved from this malicious worm now, well in past i have posted about "how to surf orkut without javascript" which would help in prevention from such viruses and always remember not to use any javascript that are posted in your scrap even by your trusted friends...
Edit: So here is a way to remove this virus, Click Here
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Orkut applications coming soon, its official now
Hey friends, a few days back i posted about Orkut applications to go public, now Official Orkut Blog has also confirmed this news and posted about this...
Official Orkut Blog: Back in November, we announced that orkut was open to developers. Developers have been building exciting new social applications over the last few months that will make the orkut experience even better. This is why we're excited to announce that apps will be available to a subset of orkut users starting in a couple weeks, and to all orkut users several weeks after that.
So we might just have to wait for few weeks more to get these great orkut applications to play with... we can wait this much... as we are quite busy orkuting... right friends!
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Manage Your Friends Easily on Orkut
Friends, I have been facing a little problem, i think a serious feature was missing from orkut which would help us in organizing our orkut accounts, because many of my school and college friend's name are same, just today orkut added this new feature which have solved my this problem lately and have made organizing friends very easier, as i have been saying in my previous posts that 2008 will be the year for many new orkut modifications and voila i just love this new feature for managing friends. Here is what Official Orkut Blog have to say about this...Friend groups have been on orkut for some time now, but we're now making them more accessible throughout the site to make it easier for you to create new groups or add new friends to them. Here's what's changed: when you add a new friend or accept a friend request, you can now select which group(s) you want to add them to. You can also modify these groups (rename them, remove them or add new ones) either when you add or accept a friend, or on the friend management page. And we've turned friendship levels into groups for you, so that you can send messages to all your best friends, or see all the friends on orkut that you haven't met offline yet.
These guys at orkut are surely working at their best to give us all improved orkuting and latest features to manage our friends and social networking, my sincere wishes and hats off to these guys... they rock :)
Well you might also like to check out Orkut Trends, Content Privacy in Orkut Communities, save your orkut account from being hacked!
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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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Orkut Trends now Rank the State of Orkuters
Well friends,we all wonder how many people from the world are on orkut, well sometime we wonder how many people from our state are on orkut. A question came up in the orkut trends community: What is the distribution of orkut users among the different states in the US?
and according to Official Orkut Blog, the results are:
No.1 California - 20% of US orkuters
2. New York - 11 %
3. Florida - 8 %
4. Texas - 7 %
5. Massachusetts
Rounding out the top ten were New Jersey -- referred to by some as "Joisey" -- at 6%, my home state of Illinois (4%), Georgia (2.5%), Pennsylvania (2.5%) and Virginia (2.4%). Other states making up more than 1% of our US user base were Washington (2.3%), Michigan (2%), Ohio (2%), Connecticut (1.9%), Maryland (1.7%), North Carolina (1.6%), Arizona (1.4%), Minnesota (1.1%), and Colorado (1%). Least represented were the sparsely populated states of North Dakota (.07%), South Dakota (.07%), and Wyoming (.06%).
Interesting stats, may they roll out one for India too...
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Upload Photos Easily on Orkut - Officially Now
Friends, remember that i made a tutorial about UPLOAD MULTIPLE PHOTOS On ORKUT now Official Orkut Blog have also posted about this feature here is what they have said
Official Orkut BlogBack from a vacation? Had a party? Surely you must have a ton of photos to share with your orkut friends. Well, we're happy to tell you that we've made sharing those photos with your orkut friends even easier. We have increased the photo limit, so now you can share up to 1,000 photos, and made the upload experience faster for Internet Explorer users.
If you're on orkut with Internet Explorer, click on the link for "New! Upload multiple photos" on your albums page. It takes you through an instructions page for installing the application needed to upload multiple photos at once.
Well its seems that we were proactive on this feature than orkut blog, nice going for us, lets keep it going :)
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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:
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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 birthday is coming, will be 4 year old
Orkut birthday is coming friends and it will be four year old on 22 January 2008 well we are all waiting for the wonderful day and to wish orkut its birthday. well since we have just started in 2008 so from orkut champ it would be its first birthday wishes to orkut hope to see many more great changes and improvement in orkut this year, well but for now here is orkut's last year cake
lets see how google celebrate it this year! No matter what orkut has written history and is one of the most recommended social networking site ever as for me i have found my fourth standard friends on orkut whom i have never met after school, Three cheers for orkut. eagerly waiting for its birthday!!!
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Orkut on Mobile in Brazil not in India
i know this is an old post but this is important. Orkut has offered mobile orkuting a year back but when will it give its Second largest user base which is India this feature of accessing orkut through mobile. Many people are waiting orkut to contact to any big player in market such as airtel, reliance, tata, vodaphone but lets see when it will be available. Hopefully it should come soon.
One year Ago , Official Orkut Blog posted that,While orkut users love having an online social network, we understand that a good deal of your social life happens offline. We wanted orkut to enrich the offline social life of its members, so we thought we could either give you computers with really long cords or we could bring orkut to the device you carry around in your pocket: the mobile phone. Thus the idea for an orkut SMS service was born. With orkut's new SMS feature, you can scrap your friends, look up their contact information and receive scrap notifications. Now you can send scraps from the bus, bar or bathroom, and your friends can get notified of those scraps when on bicycle, beach or bed. Along with the standard orkut features, we've included a few hidden goodies for the adventurous to find. We hope to expand soon to other mobile service providers in Brazil and around the globe.
Lets hope for sms orkuting India also.
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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
Orkut Calling All Spam Fighters in war against spam
Google is now taking spam more and more seriously, After enabling the privacy options in scrapbook, Orkut Forums and Scrapbook are now getting secured by faster Report Spam options. Earlier it use to take alot of time to report spam feature by actually going to the person's profile etc. now it is very easy..
(Official Orkut Blog) While communities provide a great medium for people to come together and share ideas through forums, polls and events, lots of communities can be the target of spam. Until now, if you were not the community owner or moderator, you couldn't remove the spam if you saw it. Well that has changed. Now you will be able to click "report spam" to specific topics or items in communities that are spammy, even if you are not the community moderator or owner. This will help us take down spam faster and take the pressure off the community owners and moderators. You can also report spam on specific scraps that you see in your own scrapbook.
This feature would definately save time and will allow google to handle the scrap to all etc spam in a much better and faster way by making things easier on the users part...
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Your Orkut Profile being added in Google Search
Google Crawlers will soon be indexing your profiles to be added in the search engines... so that people can search your profile in google...
well if you would like your profile to be added in search engines select show information option
but if you would like to have your privacy assured and would not like to share it in search engine select hide information option.
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Security Warning on homepage of orkut
Security caution: Please do not use your orkut account to impersonate or harass other users. Violations of the orkut terms of service will lead to the suspension of your account. For serious violations, we can and will share information with local law enforcement agencies in your country. Be safe and keep orkut beautiful.
On a positive note, this was very much required to curb impersonation issues and the fact that official warnings make the work much easier.
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Add 250 or more Videos at orkut
oh great.. did you know that we can add more than 250 videos on orkut, thats too great and much more than i thought they would allow, but i dont know the exact limit
lets say how many do you have.... or would like to have...huh...
if you like this post please comment on ho many videos you have in your orkut profile well starting from me i have got around 8 videos :)
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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.Here are some features suggested by orkut and demand your participation to finally implement them on orkut.
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.
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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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