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How To Recover a Deleted Orkut Community!

This is one of the most frequently asked question to me. I myself wonder why it took so long for me to answer it! Anyway here is my post on recovering a deleted orkut community… First if your community still exists and in your control, better add a co-owner for your community. This will be Continue reading

Update Your Status from Orkut Homepage! [New Feature]

Orkut improved their status update feature by adding facility to send update on Orkut homepage. Now one can say they have completed copying this feature from facebook. As you can see above, this improvement will surely increase use of status update feature. Notably this feature suffered from a Continue reading

Orkut Apps Now Available For All Users

Rolling out first in Estonia, then in India, Orkut Apps finally became available worldwide. Orkut Developer Blog announced yesterday that they have finished rollout of OpenSocial apps to all orkut users. This means you no longer need to change your country to enjoy Orkut apps. I have noticed Continue reading

HtmlOrkut.com – Treat for Orkut Users!

HtmlOrkut is a new portal from Gaurav Dua, who runs OrkutPlus, one of the most famous blog on Orkut. HtmlOrkut has around 2000 graphics and glitters, over 625 High quality games, over 1000 orkut themes. Many fascinating and amazing generators, exclusive widgets, ASCII arts, musical scraps and Continue reading

Orkut search filters are back but…

Orkut restored search filters with new interface which is much cleaner and easier to use. Search filters gone missing few days back breaking one of my best trick to find a date in your city. Unfortunately new search filters which appear good in terms of visual appearance lacks advance control Continue reading

[Fixed] Orkut countrywide domain side-effect - Secure Connection Failed!

Update: Issue is fixed by Orkut.Looks like Orkut team is reading DW! And those who think orkut.co.in does not exist, check this post for screenshot. Yesterday, I came across one more side-effect of orkuts countywide domains. I was using Friend Finder on Orkut, when I lost secure connection with Continue reading

Orkut Buyukkokten, creator of Orkut marries his boyfriend

Orkut Buyukkokten, creator of Orkut is married to his boyfriend Derek Holbrook recently. It was expected as the California Supreme Court has made gay marriages legal recently. The ceremony was witnessed by Marissa Mayer, the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google. In the Continue reading

End of Orkuts Status Update Message Image Hack!

Over the last two weeks, Orkut status update message image hack created a lot of buzz. Few orkut users including me, used orkut medal images to make profile look Orkut certified. But as with many other hacks, this also stopped working now. Official emoticons still work but they now uses orkut Continue reading

Orkut Search Filters Gone Missing!

Two month back, Orkut community search feature was broken. Now filters gone missing from orkuts user search feature. If you never used it, orkut filters can be used smartly to refine search results very nicely. Long time back I even posted one orkut dating trick which uses search filters to find Continue reading

“Orkut Forum” is Back with Reward Program!

A year ago, a forum for Orkut users called Orkut Forum was started. I could not give it much time because of this blog and other projects. But some of our orkut community members showed interest in contributing to it, so Orkut Forum is back now. Tanmay (godzown on orkutforum) took the the Continue reading