Beware all Orkut users! Now hackers are sending friend request emails that look similar to any genuine Orkut email. Below are screen shots of emails sent by hackers: At first, you might find similarities in both the emails, but on a closer observation, I found that all the links in that mail that came to [...]

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 [...]

Most of you must have noticed that Google Talk was not available for chatting on Orkut for people who did not have a Gmail account. Thankfully, this will not be a hindrance for Orkut users any more. Now, Google’s chat feature is being enabled for all Orkut users, irrespective of whether they have a Gmail [...]

I’m sure most of you already know about Google Latitude through an earlier post on Orkut Diary.

It’s a feature of Google Maps for mobile, as well as an iGoogle gadget, that lets you share your live location with your friends (if you chose to share it with them) and also see their locations (if they choose to share it with you).

This fun application is now on Orkut too!

Ketan Goyal and few other readers are interested in hiding their Orkut scrapbook from their Orkut friends. Sometimes it happens that you get a friend request from a bully from your school or workplace. You love your privacy but you cannot reject his request as you are in same social circle. At such times you [...]

Sometime back Orkut added complete support for Google-Talk popup chat windows. This is different than earlier Google Talk integration where your Orkut friends gets added to Google Talk chat list automatically. This recent integration opens all active Google Talk chat windows when you move from one Orkut window to another Orkut window seamlessly. This integration [...]

Activity stream or updates from friends on your Orkut homepage shows among other things photo related updates from your friend. Earlier, if somebody post a comment on your friend’s you need to go to that photo to reply to it. This is made simple by Orkut’s new inline photo comments feature as highlighted in screenshots [...]

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. …

Below is mock screenshot of Orkut profile of Gabbar Singh. Gabbar Singh is villain from famous bollywood film Sholay. (click on image to enlarge it) If you have more profiles like this, please share with us. Thanks Pradip.