Many of us love the game of cricket and love Orkut. IPL matches are already being shown live on You Tube. Now could Orkut be far behind? Now you can join the new Official IPL community on Orkut. Official IPL community on Orkut It has videos from YouTube and quite handy to catch up on [...]

We have seen a phenomenol response to the New Orkut Invites give aways we announced on our blog. Most people who have used the New Orkut have not really complained about the format. We can safely say New Orkut is a hit. But there are still many comments and requests for invites. We have good [...]

On Orkut, we create new communites, or join any community randomly. But do you know which was the first community created on Orkut and by whom? Before telling about that let’s see how can we find the first, second or any community we want. To do so just go to any community and copy the [...]

Orkut’s “Shiv-Sena Hate Community” fiasco ended up creating a lot of chaos and insecurity amongst many community owners on Orkut. In order to maintain a civil and cohesive overall experience, and encourage active and engaged community online, Orkut has now introduced more controls for community owners.

What happened to the freedom of speech and expression, I wonder? Imagine running a community on Orkut, and being held accountable for every message posted. This is exactly what happened to Ajith D, a 19 year old computer student and an Orkut account holder, who apparently created a “Shiv Sena hate community” on Orkut. Mumbai [...]

Recently, one of our reader Jo has emailed us asking, Is there anyway to save orkut topics or download topics/forums to view offline later when there is no internet connection? As a temporary and ugly workaround, I suggested him, You can subscribe to RSS feed of individual topics and/or communities using our service Orkutfeeds. …