Archive for July, 2010

Happy Friendship Day

Friendship is the essence of orkut, and what better way to celebrate it than with a doodle for International Friendship Day?

Take a look at your friends list on orkut. Is there anyone you haven’t talked to in a while? Send them a quick scrap and let them know you’re thinking about them. Or, even better, set up a video chat so that you can hang out with them face-to-face.

Recently, we’ve launched a bunch of different features that we hope have made it easier for you to make new friends and keep in touch with the people you already know and care about. We’re always open to new ideas of ways orkut could be even ‘friendlier’ (excuse the pun), so if you’ve got suggestions, be sure to let us know.

Hope you enjoy the day and thanks for being such a good friend to orkut!

Posted by Rodrigo Paiva, orkut operations team


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Google Apps highlights – 7/30/2010

This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed.Over the last couple of weeks, we introduced several new capabilities in Google …

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Remember the 6Ts

Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away. Now I need someone to…stand by me. Excuse the golden oldies, but my mental soundtrack is plugged into the sixties today. It’s all because we’ve just kicked off a helpful troubleshooting tool…

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Discovering Who To Follow

With more than a hundred million users on Twitter, there are sure to be at least dozens of accounts out there that will reflect your interests. The trouble is finding all of them. Today we’re beginning to roll out a simple, but powerful new feature to …

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DOM Traversal

The latest Platform Preview Build includes two great interoperable features for working with the DOM – DOM Traversal and Element Traversal. These features provide web developers with simple, flexible, and fast ways of traversing through a documen…

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A World Cup Victory for Fans

Just weeks after his team won the World Cup, we asked Gaspar Rosety, the media director of The Spanish Football Federation, to look back at the role its fans on Facebook played in the tournament and how social media has changed the way the team communicates with its supporters…

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Private scraps on orkut!

A few weeks ago we launched some changes to scraps on orkut, but we heard your comments and went back to the drawing board. We’ve finished our homework, and here you can see what we created:

Want to keep something in secret?

Now you can choose to send a private scrap to a friend. On the new orkut, before posting a scrap, just change its visibility to “private”, and that scrap will remain visible only to you and the person receiving the scrap, so it stays completely secret.

If you don’t change the default options, your scraps will have exactly the same behavior as before, so there’s nothing to worry about, things only change if that’s what you want.

Privacy labels

We take privacy very seriously, and that’s why we’re making it absolutely clear who else can see the content you’re looking at on orkut. Every scrap (as well as photos, videos, etc) will now have a privacy label, so you can easily tell who else can see it. These are exactly the same as the privacy levels that we already had on photos: private, friends and public.

Still curious? Then visit this page about Private Scraps to learn more! We hope you really enjoy this feature, and don’t forget to share your feedback with us. We have many other cool launches coming out soon, so stay tuned for updates.

Posted by Victor Ribeiro, orkut product management director

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New iMac Is Editors’ Choice

PC Magazine reviews the new 21.5-inch iMac and makes it the Editors’ Choice (4/5 stars) for mid-priced all-in-one desktops, citing its “classic” design, excellent display, powerful multimedia performance, and reasonable price. The review adds: ??…

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Thumbs Up for Magic Trackpad

SlashGear reviewer Vincent Nguyen judges the Magic Trackpad a “pretty tempting proposition” because it brings the “useful” Multi-Touch “gestures Apple’s mobile users have been enjoying to their desktop compatriots.” Adds Nguyen: “I whol…

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Apps Built for iPhone 4

Jim Dalrymple at The Loop highlights apps built to take advantage of iPhone 4 features — including the gyroscope, accelerometer, and Retina display. Writes Dalrymple: “There are a lot of great apps for the iPhone, but to experience the ultimate in …

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