Two Sessions are over now. I was the one to begin, and I presented the opensocial app we developed for orkut. Its a simple application to show images from mobshare in orkut. I also talked about the concept of platforms and application. Check out my post. – A platform always beats an application. The next one was Vishnu with a cool game called N3TON.  It was developed completely in ruby using the gaming framework GUSO. It...

This is the screenshot of the opensocial app we developed. Thanks to Sarath. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image. This is a very simple application that brings mobshare image albums inside orkut. This is a very simple example for the opensocial Api capabilities. This application is a very general application where the general image stream is used in the slide show. Right now we are modifying the application so that the...

Today another new feature was introduced to orkut. Now its really very easy to report orkut community spammers. Now we can select all the spam posts and report them all in a single click. This will be really good and useful tool for community owners. Almost all community owners suffer from spammers. I myself have spend many hours deleting spam mails from communities that I own or moderate. Thanks orkut.

Yesterday I noticed a small lock icon on some of the orkut profiles. Now it seems photos and videos can be locked, so that casual surfers cant view it. Now thats really bad, and orkut is gonna loose a lot of traffic. This is a seriously bad move from orkut. This will reduce my orkut usage by 90%. If I cant sneek into someones photos and videos why the hell would I use orkut. Then again, who needs orkut. We have www.mobshare.in...

If you are crazy about your profile views count in orkut, here are some tips for you to increase them. Visit others profiles so that they see you in their recent visitors list. Change your display name often, your friends will visit your profile to know who this is Write Testimonials for your friends, people who visit their profile might visit you also as you are always in their profile page Update your profile often, orkut...

Most providers assign certain number series to certain places.  All the SIMs sold at a particular location at a particular period of time can be in the same series. With a little bit of research we can identify potential numbers in a location. Another method is to gain access to corporate databases, where customer numbers will be stored. Modern banks provide SMS alerts, and they are a good place to start looking. If you have...

1) Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on over twenty different countries since 1945? 2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons? 3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt, thereby making it the most lethal terrorist bombing in modern Middle East history? 4) Which country’s illegal bombing of Libya...