September 19th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Zachary John, Business Product ManagerToo many photos and never know which ones to choose? Bring your craziest, hottest, funniest photos onto orkut for your friends to see and enjoy. Having a great photo experience is an important part of sh…
September 18th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Alexandre Luis Vignado, orkuteer**orkuteers are orkut members (outside of Google) who have shown incredible dedication and helpfulness in our orkut Help Group. Alexandre has provided us with his story and permission to share it with you here….
September 13th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Eduardo Thuler, orkut Product ManagerThough I’ve discovered dozens of people on orkut, searching for them has never been easy. Trouble is, there are so many people in orkut that you’ll always find several people with the same name. It’s usual…
September 10th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Robin Norvell, orkut Operations Team and orkut Guide Got a question about a feature? Need a refresher on how to manage a community? Our beloved orkut is a work in progress, but we’re always working to improve it for you – and with you…
September 4th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Priya Mandawat, Software EngineerIf you’re at all like me, you constantly check your orkut friends’ profiles to check out their pics from last weekend, see if they’ve found any funny YouTube videos lately, updated their relationship status, o…
August 31st, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Patrick Barry, Software EngineerIn our quest to make orkut universally accessible, we’re now available in 5 new languages: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. Indians have always been a vibrant part of the orkut community, and we cont…
August 29th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Priya Mandawat, Software EngineerOn orkut, it’s all about how cool your friends are, or how many you have. (Hey, it’s a social network, what do you expect?) So we’ve made some improvements to the way you view your friends. To start, we’ve tak…
August 27th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Daniela Mota, Software Engineer Last week, we started rolling out the redesign to just a fraction of our users. If you don’t have it yet, remember you will have it over the next week. In the meantime, we wanted to tell you a little bit mor…
August 24th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Eduardo Cordeiro, Software EngineerWhen you think Google, you picture primary colors; when you think orkut, you see blue. And though we’re updating the look, we’re staying true to blue. We’ve added some rounded corners and new icons that make orkut loo…
August 23rd, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Narayan Kamath, Software EngineerRemember the first time that you logged into orkut? Maybe you received a coveted invitation from a friend, heard about it in a blog, or stumbled upon it when searching for a social network on google.com. But n…
August 21st, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Product Marketing ManagerSeveral months ago MTV India called to tell us that nominees for the 2007 Pepsi and MTV Youth Icon award included Abhishek Bachchan, Rang De Basanti, Multimedia Cell Phones and, of course, You. …
August 20th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Patrick Barry, Software EngineerSince orkut communities are all about the idea that everyone has something in common with everyone else, we’ve made it a little easier to see these shared interests. We just launched a feature I built that will…
August 17th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Tanushree Baruah, orkut Operations TeamAs promised, here are the results of our Independence Day poll. Thank you to everyone who voted! We are thrilled to have heard from more than 15,000 users and we hope you continue giving us your feedback…
August 14th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by the orkut TeamAs India completes 60 glorious years of Independence, the orkut team would like to congratulate and thank you for participating in the orkut Independence Day polls.It certainly has been interesting to hear all your viewpoints, a…
August 10th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Patrick Barry and Anisha Malhorta, Software EngineersSending scraps to friends has always been the most popular way to stay in touch on orkut. Despite having only colored text and smilies to play with, you have gotten creative and left some p…
