Youtube has finally taken orkut seriously and has provided an Orkut share option in its share list. All you need to do is click on Orkut in Share option under any youtube video you want to save as your fav in Orkut. You will be redirected to Orkut.com where you have to confirm if you want that video as your favorite.
Not so smooth, it would have been much better if we could connect our account to youtube account and a single click would have done the purpose. But something is better than nothing
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Orkut provides very limited number of smilies, though it would be much more fun if we can post some other funny smilies in scraps. We all know smiley can express things, which we can't express with words and can do wonders for lovebirds. Yahoo messenger has very good library of these smilies, and if you want to use all those smilies for Orkut it can be done using Greasy Monkey and Firefox.
Please follow the below steps:
1) You would need to have firefox on your machine, if you don't have one you can download and install it for free from here
2) Install the GreasyMonkey addon from here
3) Download this script
Once the script is downloaded in your desktop, minimize the Firefox window, drag and drop the script (which has been saved on desktop), on to the minimized window and wait for 2-3 seconds. The script would automatically show up the installation window.
Orkut Helper is a small extension for your Mozilla Firefox browser that will make your stay on orkut much more pleasant add a lot of useful and interesting features into the website's interface.
☺ View "My Scrapbook" Link On Each Of Orkut Pages, Not just On Your Profile/Home Pages.
☺ "View Scrapbook" Link In Front Of Profile Link, so that you can go to their scrapbook, without going to their profile.
Similarly,
☺ "View Album" Link In Front Of Profile Link
☺ "View Message" Link In Front Of Profile Link
☺ "View Community Topics" Link In Front Of Community Link
☺ "View Community Events" Link In Front Of Community Link
☺ "View Community Members" Link In Front Of Community Link
☺ Copy Smileys within the scraps/posts so that you can copy Entire scrap/post, including the smileys [:)]
☺ Replace Orkut Smileys With Animated Smileys. Don't you think, the orkut smileys are static images, would you not like some 'animated' smileys.
☺ Replace The Links In Scraps/Posts Which Point To Images By Their Corresponding Images. So that you don't have to click the link to view the images.
Similarly...
☺ Replace Links To SWFs By Their Corresponding SWFs.
& above all, each of these feature can be turned on or off individually.
☺Also You Can Right Click On Any Profile Link To Go To Scrapbook/Album/'Send Message' (& others) pages of any Profile.
☺You Can Right Click On Any Community Link To Go To Members/Topics/Events (& others) pages of any Community.
☺You Can Search Within Your (or in general anyone's) scrapbook.
☺Similarly You Can Search for a Topic within community topics or a Post in a community topic. or u can also search within messages...
☺You can send a common scrap to all of your (or in general any profile's) friends or members of any community...
☺Remove Google Ads From Orkut Pages...
☺New Scrap Alert...
☺Copy With Formatting; Copy all your scraps/posts with formatting, like bold/italics/underline/colors etc.
☺Automatically Reload The Pages With "No Donuts For You"... (Beta)
☺Orkut Helper Toolbar
☺Support for typing in Indian languages
Download the Addon here
FIND A BUG OR NEED HELP?
1)PLEASE read FAQ on the official community
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=25747861
One of the first thing that every user looks for on their homepage in Orkut is "who visited my Profile in last 24 hours". though orkut shows only 5 recent profile visitors. If you get more then 100 profile visits every day you would surely want to know about more people visiting your profile.. well gues what Orkut has listened to your wish and now you will be able to see 10 recent profile visitors which means more Orkutting and possible new friends everyday :)
orkut just keep getting better..
orkut Blog: Now see 10 recent profile visitors!
Orkut has today introduced a new cool feature which makes it much easier for you to share pics with your friends. Orkut users will now be able to add pics from their Picasa web albums.
You can do this by follwing the below steps.
1.Go to your friend's Scrapbook and click on Add Photo button.
2.A pop up will come on your screen. In the left bar you can see three options Upload a new Image, Add from Picasa album, Add image from website url ( This feature already exists ).
For the first option, you can directly upload an image from your computer and can than save it to one of your Picasa Web Albums also for future use. 
3.Click on second option in left bar to add an existing image from your Picasa Web Album. 
4.Select one of your album, you can than zoom the album to view pics in high resolution. 
5.Once you click on the image, it shows a preview of image incase you don't like the pic you can choose another one.
Great news for all those developers who were waiting for an API from orkut, Google has today made Orkut open for developers. I think google has been keeping an eye on facebook and thinks Orkut is an answer to facebook. In last one year there have been many changes to orkut and its now much secure with less spam.
Interesting this here is that this will be the first google application that will use Open Social. if you are not aware of Open social, its a new alternative for API's you can find more about Open social at http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ I will post about this in more details in the evening.. for now this is what Orkut blog has to say The orkut team continually tries to build new features based on your feedback -- features that help you better express yourself and communicate with friends. But no matter how hard we work, we can't build features fast enough for you. So to bring you as many new features as possible, today we're announcing that third-party developers will be able to build additional social experiences right into orkut. While we will be sure to maintain security, privacy and ease of use, opening up orkut to developers means that soon you will be able to add dynamic new applications that will make your orkut experience all the better.
The applications will use your current connections to help you better communicate with others and do fun new things in orkut. And they will be integrated just like regular orkut features, such as your scrapbook or testimonials. Application pages will look and feel like regular orkut pages, and you will be able to access them from the lefthand navigation bar after you add them. An example of an application might be a tool that lets you rate your favorite music or movies for your friends to see, or one that allows you to draw pictures on a friend's profile page.
You will have to opt-in to any application to use it and give it permission to access your profile. And as always, we will never sell your personal information and we have no intentions of making your contacts publicly available. You will be able to add or delete these applications any time you wish but even if you don't have a certain application, you will still be able to interact with it on your friends' profile pages if they install it. Of course, we are also going to monitor orkut for any inappropriate or malicious applications, and if you ever see one you think is offensive, you will be able to report it to us.
You won't see any changes in orkut immediately, but over the next several weeks developers will be playing in our "sandbox," a separate online site developers can use to test apps. Essentially, we're allowing developers to try out their apps to make sure they work properly before offering them to orkut users. Eventually, you'll be able to select applications you like and add them to your profiles, but this won't happen until later on. We also want to make it clear that once we make applications available, nothing will change in orkut by default -- you'll simply have the option to add your favorite applications to your profile (and delete them if you choose) and interact with friends in entirely new ways.
On a more technical level, orkut will be the first website to use a new web technology called OpenSocial, which allows developers to use web standards (such as HTML and Javascript) to build new social applications in orkut. This means developers can enhance orkut using technologies they are already familiar with, and can run their applications in any other website that supports OpenSocial. We are also working with developers in places where orkut is especially popular, to make sure the applications are engaging to you. To learn more, please watch our YouTube video about this news, or if you are a developer interested in building apps for orkut using OpenSocial, check out our website which is full of resources and developer information. We'll update you here about launch plans and show you screenshots of cool applications created for orkut, so stay tuned.
video for Open social
Great news for all the Orkut lovers, Orkut (founder of Orkut site) has staretd a new blog which will list the new features of orkut.
Also you will be able to find and learn more about the behind the scenes developers of ORKUT.
here is the link orkut Blog: Welcome!
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