Rediffmail to include Facebook and Orkut

Now Rediffmail will display feeds from your Orkut and Facebook accounts. This is a new feature that they have thought 1st and is likely be followed by others.

Google Lively-stealing the show

In a month or so, when more and more people will get to know of Google Lively, it will steal the users of Orkut and Facebook. It can be highly addictive as you can do anything in there, and Google keep on adding more features. It will be best if Google makes it open source.

Today's Fortune on Orkut - Please remove it

The Today's Fortune feature on orkut is simply ridiculous, the thing it shows today in your own profile will show the same thing tomorrow in someone else's profile. It's more like thought for the day, CRAP!
Orkut should provide some feature to remove it.

Good news for Yahoo users

Good news for the yahoo users who use their yahoo account for accessing orkut can now use the same yahoo mail id to use gtalk. Simply sign in with your yahoo username and yahoo password.

MTV Roadies on the web

After the huge success of the reality TV show MTV Roadies, its time for them to turn on the web. Already the response is great is is growing exponentially as can be seen on the orkut community.
The registrations are open. So what are you waiting for, prove your mettle and walk out with 1 lac cash + Sony Ericsson's Walkman series cell phone + chance to be in the roadies 6.0.

Community recommendations-Orkut

Orkut today has introduced community recommendations that suit your profile, however they have provided teh option to turn that off if you find it troublesome, i am still to figure out what is the use of this service.

Orkut - New Themes

Finally orkut is coming out with new features and not merely copying the facebook. This time they have rolled out some themes to dress your profile page a bit, but i still find it pretty childish, they can do better.
Moreover, i don't understand, why dont they go the open source way, it gives a push to this social networking site. I was reading "The Google Story" where they mentioned that they prefer to go the open source way unlike microsoft, so why is orkut an exception.
By the way you can access the new themes by going to your settings page in orkut.