There has been some really interesting discussions going on at the official orkut community and I believe every orkut user should join it and participate in the discussions which may change they way you use orkut since orkut staff is seriously looking at suggestions contributed by the members of the...

We have earlier shared ways to take ownership of your community even if your profile gets deleted and for those community hungry guys, wrote about the trick to find ownerless communities. A lot of time has passed and some things have changed. Today, i would like to update you with the new rules of taking...

Twitter does it that’s why they probably don’t get sued for Half a Million Dollars for allowing fake profiles to survive on their site. Facebook doesn’t have it, so this might be orkut’s big chance to get one step ahead of facebook and start mass verification of orkut profiles...

Yesterday i installed a very interesting app called vLingo on my brand new iPhone 3G 16GB Black (which is my life at the moment ). The concept was really awesome – The Phone Performs the operations you tell it to ‘vocally’. Now, it took me some time to understand how this really...

I saw a couple of blog posts where users showed their discomfort on receiving mass friends requests on orkut from the members they did not know. They misunderstood them to be scammers and spammers. I had to clear their doubt and cleared that they were actually using automated softwares to send mass...

Situation – You get an email from accounts@google.com. The email describes your account activity as inappropriate and threatens to terminate your Google account within 72 hours. You are further advised to navigate to a link for further instructions. You navigate to that link and get something...

Orkut has introduced a very essential feature which will allow you to block inappropriate content from being shown while you surf orkut. This should block all the spam vulgar posts in your scraps and orkut communities and block vulgar and offend-able orkut communities and profiles from getting displayed. By...

Orkut has been hit with an Cross Site Scripting attack which allows a malicious user to inject malicious code in to the photo comments feature which when viewed execute the malicious code. This code can steal your cookies hence compromising your privacy.

Google has powered up gmail users security arsenal by introducing a new feature which displays IP addresses of locations where they logged in with their gmail accounts. This is a very handy feature since it would act as a Saviour in cases where user leaves the desk without logging out, and his data...