Here is the latest from the Orkut world. New feature has been added. “Friend Management Page”. It enables easy editing, and modifying of your contacts. Read more about this new feature here

What I am looking for is another feature, which I think should be easier to add to this one, and make orkut little more better, from the online safety and privacy point of view.

We have an option to limit the access to our photos videos etc. If its linked with this feature, we might be able to make our photos etc more private. In other words, we need an option to give access to certain groups of friends. Further more, it can be like this. Preference for each album can be edited and give access to different friends group or groups. So, I have a family photo album, and I limit the access to family friends and another album with my college photos which I have made accessible to my college mates and few public albums where I put my Flickr photos ?

Hello Mr. Orkut, are you listening ?

Orkut News :

Now you can upload up to 1000 photos on orkut. They started with 12 made it hundred few months back and now its 1000. If you are using IE, you have an option to add multiple photos together. Read instructions here

Want to Create An application for Orkut ?

If you would like to develop a social application for orkut, its time for you to contact them.

Starting 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 help developers ready their applications, we’re offering engineering support and training. We’ve scheduled orkut hackathons on Feb. 14-15 from 10 am-6 pm at the Googleplex in Mountain View and via videoconference in New York. For more information or to RSVP, please email hackathon.rsvp@gmail.com. If you can’t attend, we hope to see you in the OpenSocial forums or on chat (irc://irc.freenode.net/opensocial). “

More here

When they increased number of photos on each account to 100, did they forget to give you ability to organize them, in to album and not just make a pile of 100 photos ? Well, if you think so, here is an answer for you, even though little late, Orkut has enabled photo albums on all accounts.

How to

from orkut’s blog

All of your current photos will be stored by default in their own album. Feel free to setup new ones by going to “photos” from your homepage. Once you have created an album, simply click on it and start uploading new photos inside. You can also change the cover photo by clicking on “edit” of the photo that you want to appear, and then selecting “album cover.”

So thats a good news isn’t it ?