Orkut Video Chat

Orkut has added a new feature today, Video Chat. It’s 3 am and I am half sleepy, but I won’t get sleep without spreading this good news, I guess.

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Orkut has always been different. It was about friendship, not about link sharing or the typical social media networking.  Now orkut has announced a new feature that lets you promote your content. And yes, its called “Orkut Promote”

You can share links, photos and videos to your friends using this new feature. If your friends like it, they can “spread” it among their friends. Plus, you can track your promotions, how many people shared it with their friends, how many people clicked on your links etc. Simple ?

Is Orkut trying to Imitate twitter ?

If orkut has made it this simple, why should I confuse you explaining things in words ? Here is a video  ….

I think it’s really cool ! and I am going to use this to promote my blog on Orkut. I know you guys are also going to do the same . And yes … not just my blog ok ? I will share your blogs too, whenever I find something interesting from you people !!

Are you still active on Orkut ?

Yes. I am still active on orkut. It is ( still ) a good way to stay connected with old school and college friends. However, when you compare it with other social networking sites like friendfeed or twitter, this is not really about sharing links and content online. This is little different, and I like it.

Is Orkut as good as friendfeed or facebook ?  I don’t know the answer for that question ( do you ? ) .. but I know that orkut is really simple, and that’s why it is still my favorite.  Here is a new feature that helps you promote your content on orkut.  Well, this is simple too.

source : Orkut Blog

A website, and few advertisements, and there ends the relation between most of our politicians with web and I don’t think they like blogs.

But still, there are a few who blog, including L.K Advani, whose blog is filling most of adsense spots for us these days. If you know more blogs, please post the links in the comment section. It will be very bad if we ignore them.

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Orkut has added a new feature, which is yet to be officially announced through their blog. You can now add comments on the photos in orkut albums.

This is going to be as popular as scraps, I believe. When I get time, I should go through albums of all my friends and post as many comments as possible lol. Hack in to everyone’s orkut album and comment now. Well, if you know how to hack an orkut album, teach me too. !!

Thanks to Rekha for this news

I have seen many crazy orkuteers who keep updating their album on a daily basis. If you are  one of them, orkut has a new feature for you. You can now “drag n drop” photos to re order them in the same album.

Here is what you need to do, in order to re-arrange your photo album

1 Login to Orkut > Albums > Album that you want to edit >
2 Now, Click on “Reorder photos”
3 Drag and re-arrange your photos you wish
4 Save

I know it’s a good feature, but I am expecting more here. How will you move photos from one album to another ? There is no option for this at the moment. When will you enable this feature pleas ?

News Source

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 ?