15Mar

As If Wall Posting and Poking Wasn’t Enough, Soon You’ll Be Able To Chat With Your Facebook Friends Real-Time

ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Saturday, March 15th, 2008 | 2,174 Views

Facebook, the $15 billion social network is supposedly tinkering around with an instant messaging service within their platform.  If this isn’t a challenge to Google and AOL, I don’t know what is.  Google’s social network, Orkut has a feature to connect Google Talk within the social network as well.  And now that AOL owns [...]

13Feb

New Orkut Features: Upload 1,000 Photos and Multiple Photo Upload Tool

5 COMMENTS | Amit Chowdhry | Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | 1,482 Views

Abhishek Surana, Software Engineer at Orkut announced that Orkut now supports 1,000 photos for uploading into albums.  And they made uploading photos in Internet Explorer easier.  Simply click on “New! Upload multiple photos” on the Photo Albums page.  Then you will need to approve Google to install an ActiveX web application.  Click on Add [...]

Categories: Google, Orkut
06Jan

Orkut Adds Photo Albums Feature

7 COMMENTS | Amit Chowdhry | Sunday, January 6th, 2008 | 329 Views

On Orkut, users had the ability to upload photos in an unorganized fashion.  But now, Orkut officially introduced photo albums.  For those who already had pictures uploaded, they are now placed in a default photo album.  To add photo albums, click on Photos within your Orkut profile:

Write down a title and description, then click [...]

Categories: Google, Orkut
05Oct

Google Passes MSN On Alexa, But Live.com Increases Rapidly and Yahoo! Maintains Gold Medal

3 COMMENTS | Amit Chowdhry | Friday, October 5th, 2007 | 396 Views

I just noticed that on my Alexa.com toolbar (owned by Amazon.com), Google’s rank looked a little different.  The web information company’s toolbar was telling me that Google is no longer glazed in bronze.  It had a silver spoon in its mouth.  Oh for crying out loud, If you don’t get my metaphor, what I’m [...]

04Nov

Google Talk/VOIP Being Integrated Into Orkut

ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Saturday, November 4th, 2006 | 168 Views

Google Talk and the Orkut development teams are currently working on integrating features into Orkut that encourage advanced communication between Orkut users. Users would literally be able to “talk” to each other and instant message each other. Although I may stand corrected, I believe that this will be the first social network [...]

Categories: , Google, Orkut