Today morning my friend, Jinson pinged me to say that orkut changed its name to yogurt. Now is it an april fools trick ? Well, lucky that we are one day ahead of US.

This is one excellent trick to build your own fans community with lots of members. I have seen quite a few pull off this trick. And this increases your reputation among strangers, even though might some damage to your reputation among friends. 1. Start a genuine community, may be for your class, school or work group. 2. Publicize it among the target group. 3. Rename it to your Fans community. Do comment your experiences.

Orkut adds private communities. By this communities can be private places where the owner has full control and only the members have access to the content inside. Now this is not surprise move from orkut. But what surprised me is the example they have given, as a usage scenario in their official blog. “Have you ever thought of creating a community poll like “Who is the best teacher at your school?”, but stopped...

Today I saw orkut releasing another feature. Orkut Albums. Now the orkut photos can be categorized in to various albums. Now there is a small problem. I couldnt find any means to rearrange the existing photos.

My good friend Teena Wrote a testimonial in my orkut profile. Its a really well written testimonial. “well kenney ..u just scrapped on me..i thought i will do something bigger…well what should i tell abt u..i get to know u better through online actually,even though we were classmates for 2 long yrs.yes..he is a really nice humble and ofcourse smart guy even though he might not looks like one.i always make sure than...

Ever since I wrote a post about the new privacy features in orkut, Ive been getting many requests to write about how to do it. Many were asking how to protect their photos and videos. Personally I dont agree to locking up photos and videos and the procedure seemed too obvious. Now if anyone is still not able to figure it out here is the procedure. Login to orkut and goto Settings and then click the Privacy tab. Now at the bottom...

I am very much interested in the opensocial APIs promoted by the google. The moment I heard about it, 100s of ideas started forming in my mind. And I got one of them materialized the day itself. Check out the mobshare open social application. I had been promoting the stuff a lot also, and thats when I had a chat with Vishnu about opensocial, and he pointed towards a possible problem, a problem that now J2me is also facing. for...