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 bug few days back where users exploited it to display any images when it suppose to contain plain-text update messages. Now with this change, it will be interesting to see if this feature breaks again.
Thanks Deepak for tip! 
