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Bail for Kaushik, but not for Sabitri (The Telegraph India)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:58:49 GMT

Terror mail accused Kaushik Basu returned home to wife and newborn child on Wednesday after a month behind bars but no such luck for co-accused Sabitri Dandapat, the domestic help with an Orkut account.

Source : The Telegraph India (subscribe)

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Wildlife racket through Internet networking sites busted (Big News Network.com)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:02:44 GMT

New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) A gang using the Orkut and other popular networking sites for illegal wildlife trade was busted in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut town, and threatened wildlife, including a rare albino civet, were seized alive, officials said Tuesday.

Source : Big News Network.com (subscribe)

Explore : India, Internet, New Delhi, Technology, Uttar Pradesh

Wildlife racket through Internet networking sites busted (Thaindian News)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:53:00 GMT

New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) A gang using the Orkut and other popular networking sites for illegal wildlife trade was busted in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut town, and threatened wildlife, including a rare albino civet, were seized alive, officials said Tuesday.Two gang members were arrested from the Lalkurti locality of the town and many threatened wildlife, [...]

Source : Thaindian News (subscribe)

Explore : India, Internet, New Delhi, Technology, Uttar Pradesh

Time has come to fight against WB politicians (nandigramunited)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:34:00 GMT

Dear Friends, I am trying to unite the people of West Bengal to organize a pro-democratic, pro-developmental force. Many people have alreay joined me and we are organizing people against CPM and TMC-both sides of same coin. We have a ORKUT group for this http://www.orkut.co.in/Community.aspx?cmm=66528745 Please join in our ORKUT group we also publish a monthly magazine which is a prodemocratic...

Source : nandigramunited (subscribe)

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Chennai Restaurant’s review (Metroblogging Chennai)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:15:49 GMT

Was thinking of starting a review about hotels in Chennai which i have visited until now, till i stumbled on this Orkut forum called Chennai Food guide - It is a treasure trove of food and restaurant’s review in Chennai. Go ahead and join the forum. By the way - Crown at the Residency [...]

Source : Metroblogging Chennai (subscribe)

Explore : Chennai

Orkut Users Down By Upto 50% - What Really Backfired? (WATblog)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:21:50 GMT

Do you think Orkut is losing its charm in the social networking market? Do you think that the nature of social networking is evolving, what with Twitter, Plurk and FriendFeed?

Source : WATblog (subscribe)

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Thackeray hate mail: Engineer in cop net (Times of India)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:30:06 GMT

The Thane Cyber Crime Cell has arrested a computer engineer employed with HCL at Ghaziabad for posting defamatory messages against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Orkut.

Source : Times of India (subscribe)

Explore : India

Fuelly: a social network for hypermilers (AutoblogGreen)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:10:00 GMT

Filed under: Etc. , Green Culture , MPG Over the past few years millions of people around the world have joined online social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and, for those of you in Brazil, Orkut. Now a new site designed to bring people together has cropped up and unlike the better known established networks, this one has a decidedly more niche appeal. However, these days it's a niche that...

Source : AutoblogGreen (subscribe)

Explore : Brazil, Environment, Facebook, Social Network

Orkut is good but with restrictions (merinews - citizen powered media)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:57:36 GMT

Orkut is a rage among the youth. This social networking website has a well-grown community called 'Orkutians'. Little doubt, it's useful in keeping people connected, but a majority of users abuse it for adult-oriented networking, which must be policed

Source : merinews - citizen powered media (subscribe)

Awesome - Userbars to Spice Up Your Orkut Scraps and Community Topic Replies (IndianPad - Popular Stories)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:51:19 GMT

This is a very awesome userscript which will allow you to add your favorite userbars (from a big collection) in your scraps and community replies. This sort of thing is being used in forums for long and some innovative brains have now integrated the same in orkut. Boast off your interests with good looking userbars. You know what’s cooler? These are Captcha Free Userbars. So you need not enter...

Source : IndianPad - Popular Stories (subscribe)

Orkut is Back for Opera Mini Users! (Wap Review)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:40:06 GMT

The problem with an Orkut update that locked out Opera mini users out for the past week is fixed.

Source : Wap Review (subscribe)

OpenSocial Now Reaches 350 Million Users, And Growing (Unfortune)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:21:52 GMT

Six months ago, OpenSocial was nothing but a list of promised partnerships. But the social network application platform backed by Google has made a lot of progress since then as those partners started to go live with their OpenSocial Apps. First there was MySpace and Orkut, then Hi5, and most recently Friendster. [...]

Source : Unfortune (subscribe)

Explore : OpenSocial, Social Network

India's Second Medal : Wrestler Sushil Kumar Won a Bronze

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:31:25 GMT

India's Second Medal : Wrestler Sushil Kumar Won a Bronze Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins bronze medal. He is indian and This is india's Second Medal of India.Wrestler SushilKumar Blog Blogspot or Orkut profile is here.You can congress him in his blog. More Info : http://www.24timepass.com/olympics-2008/wrestler-sushil-kumar-wins-bronze-medal-india-olympics-2008-blog.htm

Source : manvi111

Explore : India

Announcing prod.sandbox.orkut.com, a production-like environment (Orkut Developer Blog)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:38:00 GMT

Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, orkut team We're getting ready to start deploying support for OpenSocial v0.8 on the orkut sandbox. Since there are some significant changes with v0.8, we've created prod.sandbox.orkut.com to help you maintain your existing apps, while using the sandbox to test new features. There are only two differences between prod.sandbox.orkut.com and the...

Source : Orkut Developer Blog (subscribe)

Explore : OpenSocial

[Hindi_Jokes] LOVE SINCE YOU CAME INTO MY LIFE (Nice Mails2)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:50:00 GMT

LOVE > > SINCE YOU CAME INTO MY LIFE LOVE > > SINCE YOU CAME INTO MY LIFE Click to join Hindi_Jokes my orkut id sunil9815108075@ gmail.com & __._,_.___ Messages in this topic ( 1 ) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages Join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hindi_jokes Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest |...

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[Hindi_Jokes] SPEAK PROPERLY (Nice Mails2)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:45:00 GMT

SPEAK PROPERLY SPEAK PROPERLY Click to join Hindi_Jokes my orkut id sunil9815108075@ gmail.com & __._,_.___ Messages in this topic ( 1 ) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages Join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hindi_jokes Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group...

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Should Indian Companies Provide Their Employees Freedom to Engage Online? (WATblog)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:49:03 GMT

The long weekend gave ample time for me to catch up with some long lost friends. And is the case with long lost friends the topic turned to each others work. Surprised that my work meant blogging, tweeting and telling companies how to use Orkut, they lamented on how most of these are banned at their workplace. The latest in the casualty ward being my favorite boy Twitter. I find it extremely...

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AdParlor.com (An advertising network designed specifically for Social Networking sites.) (diy startup news)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:27:09 GMT

an advertising network designed specifically for social networking sites. Currently we support advertisements on myspace, facebook, hi5, and bebo and will soon be expanding to include friendster and orkut. http://www.adparlor.com/

Source : diy startup news (subscribe)

Explore : Facebook, Friendster, Social Network

Want Google Search Results Without Google Sites? (Bits)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:42:36 GMT

Timo Paloheimo, a blogger in Finland, has come up with a clever idea: Google Minus Google. The site is simply a way to use the Google search engine but see results that filter out Google domains like Knol, YouTube, Blogger, Orkut and many others.

Source : Bits (subscribe)

Explore : Google, Minus, Record Labels, Search Engines, Technology

Opera Mini Users Can’t Access Orkut (Wap Review)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:26:39 GMT

Given the popularity of Opera Mini in Orkut's second biggest market you would think that Google would do a better job of making sure the two are compatible, particularly as the two companies have a partnership to make Google the default Opera Mini search engine.

Source : Wap Review (subscribe)