No Ads on orkut!

I just noticed now. Why has Google removed ads on Orkut? What are they up to? One of my thoughts when ads first appeared on orkut, dated 15th November 2006 on my exclusive community: My first thoughts on Ads appearing on orkut I was not very happy to see text ads on orkut. Why should [...]

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Did Google really trick Microsoft?

Microsoft finally bought a stake of 1.6% in Facebook for $240 million taking the worth of facebook to $15 billion. Some say Google tricked Microsoft in the deal. Did Google really trick Microsoft in this or is it just that there are many Google admirers who over speculate Google’s strategies? After all Microsoft is not [...]

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Orkut sandbox access

Got access to OpenSocial application development for Orkut. Just going through the APIs, and some sample gadgets. ‘Hello, World! ‘ gadget to begin with, for someone with relatively lesser knowledge of XML, and Javascripting. Plus i got to complete stuff on IDCT for h.264 by the end of this short week. More on this only [...]

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Social networking sites kill dotcom startups?

Facebook’s 3rd party applications, orkut’s incremental approach to this, and recently the launch of Google’s OpenSocial to provide APIs to third party application developers to develops ‘social applications’ for social networking sites like LinkedIn, Friendster, Plaxo, MySpace and many more. These social networking sites are amassing millions of net users providing the features enjoyed by [...]

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Social Networking

A great business idea, a cool place to hang out, get in touch with old buddies or make new friends/business contacts. A lot more. A phenomenon at some US universities, sometime around 2003, for creating a web networking platform for university students, other than the e-mail, a more casual one. Orkut Buyukkokten, a Turkish engineer [...]

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