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- Orkut
- A social networking site sponsored by Google and named after Google developer Orkut Buyukkokten. Launched in early 2004, Orkut was originally an invitation-only site, but was later opened to...
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- Orkut photo albums ready for an upgrade
- After Google added a new entry into their robots.txt file tonight (Disallow: /orkut/albums), I began doing some research into Orkuts photo album feature. If you listen to many, the current version sucks compared to what could be possible if they just integrated it with Picasa Web Albums.When Google adds...
- Tags: Picasa, Orkut
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
Additional Resources
- Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn
- Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Google, browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-03
- Worldwide Growth among social networking sites in June 2008
- Jun-2007 Jun-2008 % Change Total Internet : Total Audience 778,310 860,514 11% Social Networking 464,437 580,510 25% FACEBOOK.COM 52,167 132,105 153% MYSPACE.COM 114,147 117,582 3% HI5.COM 28,174 56,367 100% FRIENDSTER.COM 24,675 37,080 50% Orkut 24,120 34,028...
- Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Social networking profile for Japan in June2008
- Days per Visitor Minutes per Visitor Pages per Visitor Total Internet 14.9 1,053.1 2,129 Orkut 11.5 454.0 1,557 MIXI.JP 7.5 134.0 246 Gree 3.5 130.5 214 FACEBOOK.COM 3.5 40.5 98 MYSPACE.COM 3.0 34.7 81 Source: comScore...
- Tags: Orkut.com, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-30
- Top social networking sites in Japan in June 2008
- June 2007 June 2008 % Change Total Internet 53,716 56,220 5 MIXI.JP 12,367 12,738 3 MYSPACE.COM 1,137 1,245 10 Orkut N/A 638 N/A FACEBOOK.COM 172 538 213 Gree 531 455 -14 Source: comScore ...
- Tags: Network, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Twitter being used to distribute malware
- Twitter being used to distribute malwareInterestingI'm wondering when a fully automated, "send a message to all your contacts pointing to a rogue URL" style attack (in the manner of an IM infection, say) is going to appear on Twitter. It happens to all the social networking sites eventually, from Orkut...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Social networking, SECURITY, Twitter, malware
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another
- Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on anotherReputation has 100% American bias for nowI created a Knol today, but was unable to verify myself, as I don't live in the USA. For the moment, even though I have Gmail, amd on orkut, use Adsense and Google Reader, Google...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Google Inc., Knol
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to boot
- Qik, a popular streaming mobile video service, has finally opened its public beta program and has released a slew of new features to go along with it. This is great news considering last month tech pundit Robert Scoble declared Qik all but dead in the wake newcomer Kyte. ...
- Tags: Public Beta, Robert Scoble, Handset, Video, Integration, Qik, Kyte, Kyte.tv, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
- Property Minutes spent % of time spent on social networks Minutes per Visitor French Internet Audience 46,532 N/A 1,518 Social Networking 2,708 100.0 163 Skyrock Network 1,987 73.4 173 Facebook.com 335 12.4 106 MySpace.com 94 3.5 31 Netlog.com...
- Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- XSS worm at Justin.tv infects 2,525 profiles
- A XSS worm was crawling across Justin.tv, the popular lifecasting platform at the end of June, details of the incident emerged in the middle of last week. Basically, the group that found the XSS vulnerability abused it for the purpose of generating the following graph as a proof of concept,...
- Tags: Vulnerability, XSS, Worm, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Google's secret project turns out to be Second Life
- Google's secret project turns out to be Second LifeIt it's Second Life but with so much moreAs you said, Google's Lively is pretty much a version of Second Life but it'll be 10x more successful. It won't be based on features, but on Brand power. "Google's brand in itself, represents...
- Tags: Google Inc., Second Life, secret project
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Google trying to take privacy seriously
- Google trying to take privacy seriouslyRE: Google trying to take privacy seriouslyThe whole thing is a legal can of worms which I did not see American judges opening. I hope this will be overturned for it has very serious implications all over the world.While the state may potentially be the...
- Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., privacy
- Discussion threads 2008-07-05
- Google calls for hike in H-1B visas
- Technology issues are never a big deal in presidential elections, as much as some people think they should be. One that Big Tech is trying to push, though is the H-1B visa situation. Bill Gates has been lobbying hard on the issue and now Google has signaled it's a big...
- Tags: Google Inc., Limit, Technology Issue, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud
- On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Orkut Scrap Auto Colorizer (bin)
- Orkut Scrap Auto Colorizer allows you to make your Orkut scraps Colorized, Fontized and Linkized to be placed in your profile's about me, or sent to your friends and public as a Scrap, Testimonial and Community topic by only one Click. Through the use of a multi-language easy to use...
- Tags: Orkut.com, NvdSoft, Orkut Scrap Auto Colorizer, Scrap, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Software downloads 2008-05-29
- Google launches Friend Connect with mixed reviews
- Google announced last night that it will be launching Friend Connect -- a tool that website owners can use to give their site a more social feel. Don't worry if you have a website but you are not comfortable integrating with advanced APIs, integrating couldn't be easier. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., API, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Google kicks off its Facebook ground war
- Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site. Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version. Add it up and you have...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Site, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Official: Google's 'Friend Connect' brings social networking to the Long Tail
- In case you didn't think Google wanted to be a big player on the Social Web -- Orkut, Google Talk and shared items in Google Reader aside -- the search giant revealed an ambitious new strategy today: 'Friend Connect' is a platform designed to help the 'long tail' of sites...
- Tags: Long Tail, Google Inc., Network, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- The most popular social network in Latin American countries is Orkut
- The main social networks of the five-country LatAm region, by number of users, according to an Analytics 2.0: Orkut - 12.9 mln (up 27% from 10.1 million in 2007); Sonico - 7.3 mln (Sonico launched during the second half of 2007); hi5 - 4.2 mln (up 72% from 2.2 mln...
- Tags: Orkut.com, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Why many MCSEs won't learn Linux
- Why many MCSEs won't learn LinuxLinux doesn't help the causeOne problem many "MCSEs" have is that most Linux distros spend too much effort trying to be like Windows. This serves to delay the MCSE's development, as they end up treating Linux as if it new version of Windows.Even though it...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Unix, theory
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
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