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Add Share With Orkut Button To Your WordPress Blog

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Orkut has recently come up with an experimental release of their API titled Orkut Share API. Orkut seems to be catching up with Facebook by allowing web publishers as well as it’s users to share links from web pages on it’s social networking portal. Facebook is the number one social networking site in the world while sites like Orkut are however still popular with Indian and Brazilian users (wonder if they’ve heard of Facebook).

Anyways in case you’re interested in adding a simple ‘Share With Orkut’ button under your WordPress blog posts or articles, simply insert the following code in your WordPress theme file for single post (single.php). Adding a share with Orkut button can be useful to cross promote your blog posts across social networking sites.
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Orkut’s New Look is Hi5-ish!

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Orkut recently started inviting members to try out it’s new design. I’ve been using it for the past one week, long enough to write a review. Orkut is currently India’s most popular social networking site as per statistics. Facebook is one step behind but I have a feeling it’ll catch up pretty soon. Orkut’s redesign might act as a catalyst. Yes I said that.

I feel Orkut’s previous design was way better organized than the current one. The new design makes Orkut more Hi5-ish. In an attempt to simplify the interface Orkut has failed miserably.

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5 Reasons Why I love to hate Orkut!

December 22, 2008

Ever since the social networking bomb exploded in India I have been an active user of Orkut. I often used Facebook too but since most of my friends were dumb and unable to use Facebook I had no other option. Orkut did seem interesting and fun initially but now it seems like Orkut has hit [...]

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Facebook calls up Orkut, again!

July 25, 2008

Hey there buddy! Namaste, Namaskaram, Vanacumm…uhhh Mmmm… OK! OK! I get it! Ah! Just lost in translation! Yeah whatever! So how are things going dude? Pretty cool! Hey you know we got some cool themes! Those make you look like a cheap hooker dude. Really! What do you know about good looks?! Huh! Actually I [...]

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When Facebook met Orkut!

June 8, 2008

Hey dude! Vadacum my dear friend, vadacum! Hey what was that? I just shifted base to India. So just trying to Indianize myself! Yeah I can smell the curry and chicken tikka tandoori already. Hey you know we launched the much awaited Application feature on Orkut recently. Huh! And we’re constantly adding more features every [...]

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Sneak Preview: Orkut’s upcoming App Feature!

February 27, 2008

Orkut new applications downloadThe social networking scene is too overcrowded today. Even the next door Chunnu Munnu are proud owners of a self constructed social network and aim to make it to the billionaires list one day. Facebook, MySpace and Orkut have evolved so much over the past couple of years that they have left behind networking like Friendster, Hi5 etc. crying. Orkut is believed to be very popular with Indian users while Facebook is now picking up. With the growing trend of people getting hell bored with Orkut in a little time and with nothing much to do other than sitting back and waiting for scraps to arrive, Orkut took the step ahead to open itself to the world of developers.

Facebook possesses that fun element where you can do just more than staring at other’s private photos or adding girls you don’t know to your friends list. You could simply sit there all your life having fun interacting with a lot more people in a neat and simple way by using the tons of applications available with Facebook. All this time Orkut had simply laughed off at the mere idea of having an API. They were too proud of their ‘scraps’ getting popular. Orkut opened itself to developers a little time ago and is coming up with the applications developed by nerds from across the globe in a couple of weeks.

I took the extra pain of taking a peek into the sandbox and checking out how it might just look like. So here’s a neat sneak preview of the applications coming up at Orkut. Don’t expect a bomb or Facebook-like addiction. This might just piss people off.

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