Send your updates on orkut via SMS for free!

Have you ever wanted to send a message to your orkut friends but could not because he had no computer nearby? It is precisely for times like this, you only have one phone in their hands, we launched orkut SMS , a feature that allows you to post new messages in orkut, anytime and anywhere, directly from your phone - even if he did not have internet access. Even better, this service is completely free ! Neither orkut...

Facebook Credits Soon Coming To India

A major reason behind the popularity of Facebook is the galore of apps and games available to users. A major share of these games have features which can only be unlocked by buying them as virtual goods. Until now, users were able to purchase these virtual goods directly from the developers, but a January announcement from Facebook mentioned that all transaction on its platform have to be made using Facebook Credits from July 1, 2011.The...

Firefox 4 Overtakes IE9 Within 24 Hours Of Release; Chrome 11 Moves Into Beta

The war of the browsers is heating up further. Even before the dust could settle after the storm, IE9, which was released a week ageo, Mozilla has unleashed its wonder child, Firefox 4. If IE9 shows you the “beauty of the web” Firefox 4 is the “Web O’ Wonder.” The new browser saw 1 million downloads within 3 hours of launch and in 24 hours Firefox 4 was downloaded over 5 million times. Compared to this, IE9 was downloaded nearly...

Now Upload Photos To Orkut From Picasa – A Move Towards Killing Orkut?

Google has launched a new feature(which is not acopy of it’s competitor) on their social networking website Orkut by which you can directly upload photos to your Orkut profile and albums right from Picasa – Google’s desktop based photo editing and management tool. Social networks like Orkut are the best place to put up your photos and show them to your friends and get comments on the photos. But at times, the photos we take aren’t quite ready...

New Privacy features on Orkut – Is It Too Late?

If you start a hashtag called privacy on Twitter, I am sure It will become a trend in no time. Come on, everyone in the world is talking about privacy, as an infant gets excited about a new toy. Latest to join the bandwagon is the almost forgotten but trying hard to get back social networking site, a product of the internet giant Google, our very own Orkut. It started with Facebook facing backlash over privacy and the subsequent changes in...

Facebook Will Dominate Orkut In Social Networking In India – Was There Ever Doubt?

It’s been well known across the web, that no matter how popular Facebook is, there are two countries where Orkut still dominates – India and Brazil. Around a year back, WATBlog had posted an article on how Facebook was coming close to overtaking Orkut. Over the last one year, the migration from Orkut to Facebook has been steady.If Alexa’s stats are anything to go by, the time spent on Orkut has steadily been decreasing – down...

Now Update Your Friend’s List On Facebook From Gmail, Orkut!

Facebook has been in the news for a lot of reasons off late. On the up-side for the social networking website, there have been upgrades like bulk tagging, high-resolution pictures, and a couple of new security features. On the down-side, as usual, Facebook has been hit by security concerns. This time, Facebook applications were found to leak out user IDs to companies. with these new allegations, Facebook had to block LOLapps temporarily,...

Social Networking On Mobile Expected To Keep Growing In 2011?

Social Networking has seen a sudden boom in India during 2010. A lot of this is due to the use of social networking services through smartphones. Analysis Mason has revealed that the number of users in India who use social networking services on mobile web would reach 72 million by 2014. The major factors behind this are the receding cost of smartphones and data charges.Smartphones running on Android are being manufactured by Indian companies also,...