Posted by Scott Kirkwood, Software Engineer We all love receiving scraps, but constantly checking back to your scrapbook page can be tedious. How many of us have our scrapbook page open and are clicking refresh on it constantly!With scrap notices you …
Posted by Natalie Schwartz, orkut teamDid you know that instead of bookmarking the blog, or going to orkut.com and clicking on blog to see if we have updated the content, you can simply add this blog to your Google homepage? If you’re unfamiliar with i…
Posted by Ellen Spertus, Research Scientist, and Torsten Nelson, Software Engineer In our first column, we reported how orkut users rated their beauty by continent. In a poll in the orkut trends community, 69% of you said that you’d like to see the per…
Posted by Prashant, orkuteer**orkuteers are members outside of Google who have shown incredible dedication and been active in our orkut Help Group. Prashant has written his story, and has let us share it with you. Read more.I’m excited to write this, s…
Posted by Anna Hentzel, Software EngineerIf you’re not busy checking scraps, chances are you are checking out who visited your profile lately. After all, aren’t you curious who’s taking an interest in you, checking out your photos, and keeping up with …
Posted by Anisha Malhorta, Software EngineerA couple months ago, we announced that you could add HTML or links to your friends’ scrapbooks so that they could enjoy photos, videos or other rich content. We’ve seen you add photos of your friends, flyers …
Posted by Robin Norvell, orkut Operations TeamMany orkut users (and a number of our engineering and operations staff) are celebrating the festival of Diwali this week. Never one to miss an important occasion, orkut wanted to find a unique way to re…
Posted by Filipe Lima, orkut Operations TeamThese days many users’ accounts can be compromised through social engineering techniques such as phishing schemes or malicious scripts and programs guised as being legitimate, and lose their usernames and pas…
Posted by Shivaram Venkataraman, Software Engineer It was party time the other day when we launched SMS Search in India. We have a team with diverse tastes and opinions; finding a restaurant to satisfy all was an unenviable task that somehow landed on …
Posted by Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Product Marketing Manager Communication, social interaction, networking – these are concepts and experiences as old as the mountains but something here seems to indicate that the times they are a changing! When orkut…
Posted by Nadine Sequeira, orkut Operations Team We hate hoax emails! For example: have you received a message that claims Diana, the director of Orkut, has asked you to forward the message to your friends so we don’t shut down your account due to a…
Posted by Arijit De, Software Engineer There is no doubt that the best thing about orkut is the people you meet on it. Communities provide a great medium for people to come together and share ideas using features like forums, polls and events. We real…
Posted by Natalie Schwartz, Associate Product Marketing ManagerSeveral weeks ago, we announced that we’d expanded the orkut album size to 25 pictures. And last week, we quietly launched double the space, and now you can have up to 100 photos in your or…
Posted by Eduardo Thuler, Product ManagerI am. Though I’m happy to receive emails when I get a new scrap or someone is requesting friendship, lately it seems every orkut friend is sending emails to “all friends” — which turns into a whole lotta email!…
Posted by Balaji Gopalan, Software Engineer and Prasenjit Phukan, Product ManagerHinglish, the usage of both Hindi and English words in the same sentence, is an extremely popular form of communication in India – so much so that the venerable Oxford Eng…