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Orkut Still A Contender Reveals Facebook’s IPO Filing!

by | posted: February 3, 2012
Facebook feels that Orkut is still a worthy adversary for it in India. One of the largest, Facebook’s IPO filling keeps revealing many interesting tidbits. We recently wrote about how Facebook actually...
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Facebook Nears The 700 Million Users Milestone

by | posted: June 6, 2011
Facebook is approaching the 700 million users milestone according to SocialBaker, a Facebook tracking site. SociaiBaker reported that the Palo Alto based social network had mustered 200 million new members...
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Content Rich Portals & Social Networking Sites Dominate Mobile Web Space: Opera

by | posted: May 27, 2011
The mobile web space in India is growing at an incredible pace and with the advent of 3G it is poised to grow even more. Majority of the phones have at least a WAP browser to access basic information...
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Janrain Includes Support For Orkut To Help Brands Tap Indian Market

by | posted: May 10, 2011
Janrain allows brands to provide third party sign in facility to its users. The company’s flagship product, Janrain Engage is used by over 350,000. The latest quarterly report from Janrain showed...
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Google Ramps Up Monetisation Strategy For Indian Market

by | posted: April 25, 2011
In India, the number of internet users is growing in an inexorably high rate and currently stands at over a 100 million. Google, the search engine giant can’t afford to miss the chance to cash in on...
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Google Launches Marketing Campaign For Display Advertising In India

by | posted: April 11, 2011
Even a few years back, advertising agencies, business houses and marketers in India weren’t that familiar with all the technicalities upon which Google Adwords was based. But, the scenario is changing...
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Orkut Trying To Become Facebook? Adds “Like?” Button

by | posted: March 23, 2011
Remember the last visual revamp that Orkut received earlier this month and we told you that it resembles the design of Facebook…we were wrong. Orkut is becoming Facebook. Neither Google is selling...
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Google Profiles Gets A Facelift, Is Google +1 Coming Soon?

by | posted: March 4, 2011
After the revamp of Orkut, Google has turned its attention to its centralised Profiles feature. Google Profiles was launched in 2007 and allows Gmail users to establish their own public online profile...
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Orkut Revamp & Badges, An Attempt To Gain Lost Ground?

by | posted: March 3, 2011
Are you an Orkut Graduate? You can surely become one, now that the social network has announced that they have “launched a new badge for users that have “Graduated” from many of Orkut’s experiences.”...
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RockeTalk Launches An App For Samsung’s Bada Platform

by | posted: February 17, 2011
For those of you unaware of Bada, it is a smartphone platform developed by Samsung for its Wave Series of Mobile Phones. Mobile Social Network RockeTalk just got in touch with us to tell us about their...
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Orkut Promote Gets An Overhaul Even As Facebook Continues To Rule In India

by | posted: January 12, 2011
For those uninitiated, Orkut Promote is a free tool, offered by Google that helps users to spread news on anything to their friends. According to the official Orkut blog, this tool offers the following...
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Social Networking On Mobile Expected To Keep Growing In 2011?

by | posted: January 4, 2011
Social Networking has seen a sudden boom in India during 2010. A lot of this is due to the use of social networking services through smartphones. Analysis Mason has revealed that the number of users in...
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Orkut Lets You Edit Your Pics With Picnik

by | posted: December 23, 2010
Google has added a new feature to its once popular social networking platform: Orkut. The new feature enables users to edit photos in Orkut photo albums using Picnik, the online photo editing tool. The...
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Google Zeitgeist 2010 Is Here – What Did India Search For?

by | posted: December 10, 2010
Well Microsoft gave us a snack, Yahoo! a meal and now Google’s Zeitgeist is a whole feast – a high quality one at that. Full with HTML5 visualizations that let you compare different trends...
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Google Pins Hope on Orkut, Rolls Out Users Badges

by | posted: December 2, 2010
Google is still pinning its hope on Orkut, the term that once rocked countries like Brazil and India but is sliding into mere oblivion today. All due to proliferation of the social networking giant Facebook....
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Internet Is Indian Youths’ Favourite Pastime

by | posted: November 23, 2010
Internet seems to have percolated deep into the mainland India. According to a Business Standard report, if one considers Indians in the age bracket of 12- 18 years, 65 % of them would prefer to choose...
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