THE GENIE OF the Orkut  is back. This time with the untimely murder of a teeneger by his own "Orkut" friends. It is not the first time the social networking site has been dragged into the limelight. Few months back, thanks to Shiv Sena’s call to ban the Google’s social networking site it was in the news. At that time the Shiv Sena alleged that certain ‘communities’ have been using this common platform (Orkut) for insulting the party Supremo Bal Thackeray and Maratha idol, Shivaji.

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Facebook Bumps Orkut From Top Spot In India: Facebook was on its way to overtaking Orkut to become the most popular social  networking site in India. Recent research from comScore has revealed that Facebook  managed to bump Orkut off the top spot in July 2010.According to comScore statistics, Facebook  had 20.9 million unique users in India in July 2010, compared to 7.47 million in July 2009, while Orkut had 19.9 million users in July 2010 and 17.7 million users in July 2009. While both networks have shown growth in the last year, Facebook’s 179% growth far outstrips Orkut’s 16% growth rate.

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Orkut, the social networking site from Internet search giant Google is continuously losing its market share across the world. Even in countries like Brazil and India where it has a huge following, Orkut is losing to other popular social networking sites like Facebook. Even micro-blogging sites like Twitter are giving Orkut's dominance in India a tough time.

According to Google Trends, a site that compares daily traffic between different websites, the number of visitors to Facebook has gone up since June while the same for Orkut is falling. The rise of Facebook in India is mainly attributed to users from Maharashtra and Delhi.

People from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Punjab and Gujarat are using Facebook more than Orkut. Madhya Pradesh is the only place out of the top ten states ranked by Google Trends, where there is a neck-to-neck fight between the two social networking sites.

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For all the grief Google gets for not understanding social networks, people often forget that it owns a pretty big one, Orkut. While Orkut is much smaller than Facebook worldwide, it does dominate in at least two large countries: Brazil and India. But that soon may change.

India looks like it is about to fall to Facebook. In May, 2010, Facebook attracted 18 million unique visitors in India, compared to Orkut’s 19.7 million (comScore). In the past year, Facebook grew 177 percent from 6.5 million Indian visitors, compared to 35 percent growth for Orkut. When the June numbers come out, Facebook may very well surpass Orkut in that country. Indeed, Google’s own Trends for websites shows Facebook edging out Orkut in India last month.

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It is no news that Facebook is beating Orkut in India. You and I know it – we stopped visiting Orkut long time back. But when data speaks the truth, you have got to take note of the trends. As per Comscore’s latest data, Orkut is still ruling, but its just a matter of time when Facebook takes over the rein.

Take a look yourselfFor any social network site, time spent by users count. If people aren’t spending time in a social network and aren’t conversing, you are bound to lose. Take a look at the total time spent in the system, Facebook crossed Orkut a while back.

R.I.P Orkut : Inch by Inch, Minute by Minute, Facebook is Beating Orkut in India It is no news that Facebook is beating Orkut in India. You and I know it – we stopped visiting Orkut long time back. But when data speaks the truth, you have got to take note of the trends. As per Comscore’s latest data, Orkut is still ruling, but its just a matter of time when Facebook takes over the rein.

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Scammers are tricking Orkut users into pasting malicious JavaScript code in their browser's address bar, with the promise of receiving a free recharge code for their mobile phones. Users who fall for the scam end up with their Google login credentials stolen.

It all starts with users receiving a link on Orkut that takes them to a website displaying a big banner that reads: "Recharge your mobile here!" According to information presented on this page, the user will receive a free recharge code in their Orkut scrapbook if they copy and paste some JavaScript code into the address bar.

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Facebook was recently in a big mess over privacy and Orkut is probably trying to gain some user love there. Today, Orkut has launched private scraps feature enabling users to send scrap just to their friend(s)  the scrap being invisible to the outside world.

To keep something secret, just send a private scrap to your friends, and just those people selected will see it. Yep, just them! Recipients can also reply, creating a completely private conversation. Orkut is taking the privacy game too seriously and each feature/piece of your content now has a privacy level. Orkut has also enabled auto-sharing of your YouTube activities on Orkut. So do all these privacy settings bring back the users? What else should Google do to Save Orkut?

In the wake of the blasphemy controversy and the Facebook ban in Pakistan and Bangladesh, many Muslims set out en masse to discover new social networking websites such as MillatFacebook and Sal.am to fulfill their online needs. Some of these websites turned out to be Facebook clones, while others were just plain useless.

While many local users resorted to using proxies to access Facebook, I opted to return to my original stalking grounds, Orkut. A short background For those who may have missed the craze in 2004-05, Orkut was an invite only website with a personalized profile where you have all your friends, pictures, testimonials in one place; a strong community-based system where discussions can take place based on the purpose of the community.

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I just had a look over what was happening with Google’s Orkut which was one of the most popular social networks in India and Brazil. It seems like things have changed and it has lost its majority user base to the largest social network  Facebook.According to Alexa  Orkut is almost dead as compared to it was an year back. It has lost a massive number of users who previously used to keep visiting the website after every few minutes.

But still they are in the game, the website still receives millions of pageviews every day which is enormous and it is still one of the top rankings websites in the world. Also we have not seen Google placing more importance over its social network.

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Hi friends, I know how crazy you are about orkut. Hmm ofcourse i know that you are also very much interested in new features of orkut. Here i will tell you, how to add images (pictures, photos) in Orkut About Me. Old Orkut don't have this feature, still you can enable this feature in your old Orkut. Follow simple steps as i explained below:

Login to your Orkut Account, after loggin in Pl. Switch to New orkut by clicking on "try the new orkut!" button which appears at the top of your profile. After switching to New Orkut, simply goto your profile page & edit it. After clicking on edit option you can find an option to Add Images, with that option you can upload your photo/picture directly toyour profile about me. After Uploading the picture Pl.

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