Google Orkut Social Network Updates

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google has been making some updates to orkut in the recent months. though they have been largely minor.

they have no incentive to do so considering only brazil is left as a major market.

india was the second largest but now facebook dominates orkut here as well.

they are working on a new social layer. orkut is well... still on. it never was an official google product (hence the name orkut and not google orkut).

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Originally hosted in California, in August 2008 Google announced that Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues.

no surprises there. Orkut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Orkut is officially a Google product. Login page logo clearly shows "Orkut by Google". Sign on box also clearly shows Signin using Google account.

It also gets listed in "Google Accounts" settings page.
It also is supported in "Google Dashboard"

It is just that Google never thought that Social networking product can be so powerful.

This was one of the biggest mistake ever by Google for not giving importance to Orkut and that is why Facebook raced miles ahead, so ahead that just like noone can bit Google in search, noone can beat Facebook in social networking.

Facebook is now so powerful that every Orkut user is also migrating to Facebook full time.

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they have no incentive to do so considering only brazil is left as a major market

no incentive?!!! no incentive from social networking product?! YOU must be crazy :D
 
Its fixed if we follow the process to clear the cookies and swtich to old orkut.Better install Ad bloack plus firefox add on and filter that JSCRIPT ;)
 
Orkut was never officially adopted by Google as their primary social networking offering. it was a 20% project by one of their employees. it became hit. google was surprised. they never took over its operation like they did with other 20% projects like google news and even gmail. these were/are the services that are promoted as their proper offerings. orkut has always got a step motherly like treatment. even when it was one of the largest social networks on the web (before facebook and myspace became popular). of course, it is powered by google. of course it accepts google accounts. because it has been developed by one of their engineers on their salary! if orkut was developed today, it would not have been a primary site but something that ran on google labs. at the time orkut was developed, it was early stages for google and that shows in the whole concept of orkut which is a very rough mess. they added google features to it to make it more powerful. the galleries that work like picasa web and so on. orkut looks like a khichdi as a result. and not a refined product. google is indeed serious about social networking but orkut is not their focus. because it has practically become a brazilian thing. and americans looking at it like some alien spacecraft.
 
you should probably switch to facebook fan pages or facebook groups. :)
 

Google wave and buzz didnt become much popular.Orkut was once very popular in india(still it is quite popular) but most users have shifted to facebook.
 
you should probably switch to facebook fan pages or facebook groups. :)

Orkut mas simple interface and fast compared to FB. FB chat crashes mopre often than net connections. Dont wanna compare both as Orkut was the one that bought Social networking in India. Its just that now ppl have started using FB
 
actually hi5 and friendster were as popular. it really depended upon how you looked at it. i never got used to orkut and their scrapping funda. started using facebook the day it opened. now i have migrated primarily to twitter. and am waiting for diaspora to become usable.
 

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