April 4th, 2008 | by Peter Harbison | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Amar Gandhi, Group Product ManagerWe’ve discovered and fixed numerous bugs during prelaunch testing and have been working on a number of UI improvements based on developer and user feedback. You will be able to see these changes on the sandb…
April 4th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Alex Epshteyn, TypeRacer [As we get ready for apps to go live on orkut, we’re excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and preview their apps here.] TypeRacer is a typing game that lets you r…
April 1st, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Michael Marth, Viibee [As we get ready for apps to go live on orkut, we’re excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and preview their apps here.] Viibee is a dating app that lets you watch videos -…
March 31st, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Eduardo Thuler, Product Manager
orkut may be all about your social connections, but Google is a search company at heart — so we’re always looking for ways to improve our orkut search features. Here are some of the latest improvements: We…
March 28th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Harish Abbott, Ugenie[As we get ready for apps to go live on orkut, we’re excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and preview their apps here.- The orkut team] What you read says a lot about you. So what better way to …
March 27th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Luiz Genoves, Software Engineer Do you have too many updates from your friends on your homepage? Are there certain friends you want to know more about, but others that you’d rather not see any updates from? If the answer is yes, I know how yo…
March 26th, 2008 | by Arne Roomann-Kurrik | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Arne Roomann-Kurrik, Google Developer ProgramsWhen a gadget initiates a signed makeRequest call on an OpenSocial container, the OpenSocial specification indicates that the container should include certain pieces of information if available, s…
March 26th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Guest Post by Muralidharan Bhoopathy, Chronus Corporation[As we get ready for apps to go live on orkut, we’re excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and preview their apps here. – The orkut team]Whether it is a birthday resolution, New Year’s…
March 25th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Ellen Spertus, Research ScientistOrkut is all about community, and we sure do have lots of them: more than 45 million, covering all imaginable topic areas (and a few that defy the imagination). Owners can specify languages and countries for …
March 24th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by the orkut team In case you were busy egg hunting and didn’t sign in to orkut, here’s the doodle we posted.
March 24th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Guest post by Sizhao Yang, MyMiniLife [As we get ready for apps to go live on orkut, we’re excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and preview their apps here.] Are you stylish? Do you like to decorate and accessorize every…
March 21st, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, Developer ProgramsWe just fixed a bunch of issues on the sandbox:51 Access to the application’s ID79 adjustHeight only works for first app on profile page98 requestNavigateTo(“canvas”) from profile goes to a different app’s c…
March 20th, 2008 | by Arne Roomann-Kurrik | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Arne Roomann-Kurrik, Google Developer Programs We recently implemented AppData limits in the orkut sandbox, whereby applications will now be limited to 10KB of storage per user of the app. Here’s how AppData limits are implemented:The l…
March 18th, 2008 | by Arne Roomann-Kurrik | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Arne Roomann-Kurrik, Developer Programs Issue 103 describes a problem in orkut’s makeRequest implementation that keeps POST data parameters from being included when generating the signature for signed requests. We have a fix for this that wi…
March 14th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Vidya Rangasayee Narayan, Software EngineerHave you discovered that you have more friends on orkut through our find friends feature on Gmail, but wished you could do the same with other address books? Do you use a non-Gmail account and feel …