New Look Orkut!
For some unknown reason, I haven’t been logging-in to Orkut very frequently these days apart from just checking / replying to an odd scrap here and there. Logged in today after quite a while… Noticed the “New Look”..
The new ‘rolled-up’ look makes it resemble a more sophisticated layout.. Which I personally feel is not completely in sync with Google’s penchant for keeping the User Interfaces simple. They have also mentioned that they’re rolling it out to “groups of users” at a time.
It’s only the ‘look’ is new. Functionality-wise I still feel its very basic and does not contain the 1001-different things-you-can-do applications that Facebook provides.
Tech2 says:
“Orkut users can now start blogging as Orkut have promised to introduce a new feature for blogging.”
Another change I noticed, earlier on the left hand bottom corner of your screen, there was this:
Now, there is a Google Logo appearing at the bottom right corner:
Perhaps suggesting that Google wants to associate itself with Orkut more tightly.
Anyway, this is what the people who run the show had to say about it on the Official Orkut Blog.
Edit: I just noticed that now you can add Images and Youtube videos to your Scraps. .. That’s a new thing then.. to go with the ‘New Look!’…
An out and out google fan? me too
Yupp… The things Google does… Not left with much of a choice.. Although I recently joined facebook.. and I must say, FB totally takes the cake as far as the features are concerened… Orkut that way is pretty basic.. but anyway… serves me just fine!
Not been active in Orkut. Have been deleting the non-existent friends that I accepted once upon a time.
But the new features look good.
waiting for this coool look on my profile !!!!!!!!!!!!
haven’t got the new look orkut yet. Perhaps they identify users workplaces
How did you get the digg widget on your blog?
Umm..I commented the same thing on Arvind’s blog too…Orkut has absolutely no features when you compare it to Facebook…the latter has lots of applications and privacy settings.
I would suggest that you join Facebook.
@kpower, search for digg in the FAQ at WP. You need to register with digg.com, then submit your posts to them, get the url and insert in in [digg="url"] at the end of your post.
@ Dinsan..
Yeah .. they’re rolling it out “in groups”..
@ Kpower..
Thanks Ruhi! .. I Got that from the WordPress FAQ Section as well… herez the link..
http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/how-do-i-digg/
@ Ruhi..
.. Just joined though… I’m a Facebook Newbie! 
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Yes.. I am already ON facebook!
That’s too much hard work for every post, man! I am too lazy …
@ Kpower..
Agreed! … For every post, it is a bit of hard work! .. but if you want to highlight a particular post, then it won’t take you more than a minute to copy paste the submitted URL and edit your post.. maybe its worth it if a particular post is getting a lot of traffic and contains insights!
** NOTE: I just added the Digg button “for kicks”… to see if it look jazzy…
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Its still showing the old one for me!
@ Nova
Yeah.. They’ve mentioned in The Official Orkut Blog that they’re rolling out the ‘New Look’ to groups of users at a time.. (Source: Google’s Official Orkut Blog) ..
haven’t got the new orkut yet.can anyone send invitation on my orkut account