Google adds Gtalk to Orkut

Published on 12 November 2006 by Nirmal in Google, Orkut

Google has integrated Google talk to Orkut. Whenever your friends are online, you can see a brightly coloured ball against their name.
* Green indicated they are available* Orange indiacates they are away or idle* Red indicated they are busy
No matter what the colour is you can chat with them with a few clicks.
In Gtalk there [...]

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Gazzag.com is my new enemy

Published on 09 November 2006 by Nirmal in Orkut

As part of my ongoing research into social networks, I sign up at pretty much every site I come across. Today, I came across Gazzag.com.
As part of the sign up process, they offered to import all my contacts from Orkut.com. I agreed, entered my login and password, and all the contacts popped over. Then, [...]

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Orkut blocked, How long?

Published on 28 June 2006 by Nirmal in Orkut

Past 2 weeks, Orkut is blocked in my office and i was a regular user of Orkut . It was blocked coz it was hit by personal data stealing worm capable of stealing bank details and other personal data from users. The malicious program, dubbed as “MW.Orc” works its way onto users’ personal computers [...]

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