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Introduction to Orkut
Orkut.com is an online community website
designed for friends. The main goal of the service is to make
your social life, and that of your friends, more active and
stimulating. Orkut’s social network can help you both
maintain existing relationships and establish new ones by
reaching out to people you have never met before. Who you
interact with is entirely up to you. Before getting to know
an orkut member, you can even see how they’re connecting
to you through the friends network.
orkut named after its creator, Google employee
Orkut
Büyükkökten. It is designed to help users
meet new friends and maintain existing relationships.
About the Author:
Orkut Büyükkökten is a Turkish software engineer
who developed the social networking service called orkut while
working at Google. He developed orkut as an independent project
while working at Google, the outgrowth of a company policy
whereby all employees at Google can spend 20% of their time
working on personal interests.
Originally from the Turkish city of Konya, Büyükkökten
obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information
Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, and earned a Ph.D.
in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research
at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient PDA usage.
History :
Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google,
the search engine company. Orkut Büyükkökten,
a Turkish software engineer, developed it as an independent
project while working at Google (permitted by its policy).
Originally, the orkut community was felt to be elite, because
its membership is by invitation only. However, at the end
of July 2004 orkut surpassed the 1,000,000 member mark, and
at the end of September it surpassed the 2,000,000 mark. As
of July 2005, 73% of orkut’s members were from Brazil,
followed by 6% from the United States, 5% from Iran and 3%
from Pakistan. Brazilians were below 50% from August 9 to
August 20, 2004. It is believed that this happened because
a lot of the Brazilian users had changed their nationality
to something else due to a hoax, telling that users with their
countries set to Brazil got slower speeds and a greater chance
of getting an error page.
Problems:
Due to the massive load on the server, orkut has a bad habit
of breaking down, running slow or returning one of its infamous
“Bad, bad server. No donut for you.” Error messages.
These slowdowns mostly can be noticed during the day hours
in America (south and north), which probably explains the
reason as well, as more than 80% of the orkut users are from
the American continent, more than 70% from Brazil alone.
Getting started on orkut:
To get most out of orkut and to have more
friends, you’ll need to complete the “personal” section of
your profile by following these steps:
1. Visit your home page and click the “profile” button under
your photo.
2. Click the “personal” tab to the right of your name.
3. Select “edit” below this tab.
Fill in as much information as you’d like. When a potential
friend visit this section of your profile, they’ll be able
to add you to their “hot-list,” “crush-list” or send you a
teaser.
To use orkut for business networking, you’ll want to fill
out the “professional” section of your profile. The following
steps will help you do so:
1. Visit your home page and click the “profile” button under
your photo.
2. Click the “professional” tab to the right of your name.
3. Select “edit” below this tab.
Enter the information you wish to share with potential business
contacts.
Orkut makes it easy to find people who share
your hobbies and interests, look for romantic connections
or establish new business contacts. You can also create and
join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current
events, reconnect with old college buddies or even exchange
cookie recipes.
Change Orkut Language back English:
If you would like orkut to return to English,
you can click “orkut in english” at the bottom of each page.
You will only need to do this once for orkut to appear in
English each time you log in.
To change to another language, please follow the steps below:
1. Visit your homepage and click “settings” under your profile
photo.
2. Choose your primary language from the drop-down menu at
the top of the page.
3. Click “update.”
Change orkut to another language:
Orkut is currently available in English, Portuguese, French,
Italian, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Russian.
Once you change your language interface on the settings page,
orkut.com will appear in your language each time you log in.
To change your orkut language, please follow the steps below:
1. Visit your homepage and click “settings” under your profile
photo.
2. Choose your primary language from the drop-down menu at
the top of the page.
3. Click “update.”
If you select one of our supported languages, your interface
will now be in your language. If you select a different language,
you will still see orkut in English, but you will have the
option to search for communities in your preferred language.
How to join a community:
If you’re interested in joining a community, simply browse
to that community and click the “join” button below the community
photo.
There are two types of communities on orkut.
- Public
- Moderated
Public:
If the community is public, you’ll automatically be
added to it.
Moderated:
If the community is moderated, the community moderator will
need to approve your request before you are actually added
to the community.
If you’d like to search for communities on orkut.com,
click on the “Communities” link in the blue bar
at the top of the page to search by name or browse by category.
How are the friends on my homepage ordered?
When you view your friends using the “my friends”
box on the right-hand side of your homepage, the orkut members
who have recently logged on are featured at the top of the
page.
You can see an alphabetical list of all your friends by clicking
the “Friends” link in the blue bar at the top
of the page.
When you view other people’s profiles, you will see
their recently logged in friends at the top of the page. While
we usually feature your most active friends at the top, keep
in mind that orkut friend order isn’t an exact science
and they sometimes mix up who logged in last!
How to personalize the orkut email invitations:
To personalize the text of your orkut invitations follow
these steps:
1. Select the “Home” link in the blue bar at
the top of the page.
2. Click the “settings” button under your photo.
3. Click “edit invitation to join” at the bottom
of the box.
4. Enter the text for your orkut invitations in the white
dialog box, and hit the “update” button when you
are finished.
How to set orkut notifications to be send to a different
email address:
You can have orkut notifications sent to a different email
address by changing the primary email address in your profile.
Please note that changing your orkut email address will not
change your orkut login.
To change your email address in orkut, follow these steps:
1. Select the “Home” link in the blue bar at
the top of the page.
2. Click the “profile” button under your photo.
3. Click “edit profile” below your picture.
4. In the box on the right-hand side of the page, click the
“contact” link.
5. Click the “edit” link to the right of your
primary email address.
6. Enter your new primary email address and click the “verify”
button.
7. A verification email will be sent to your new primary email
account. To complete the change, please click on the link
in this email.
*Make sure you include all of your email addresses in the
secondary email fields to ensure that friend requests sent
to your alternate accounts reach you. Don’t worry, these
additional email addresses are not visible to other orkut
members.
How to send a message to everyone in a community?
You can send a message to all the members of a community
if the community owner has selected this option and the community
has less than 1,000 members.
If you do not see the link "send message" in a
community or the community has more than 1,000 members, messages
will be disabled for all members, including the owner.
As an alternative, you may want to post your message in the
community forum with the steps below:
1. Click the link "new topic" at the bottom of
the forum.
2. Enter a subject and message.
3. Click "submit" and you're done!
What’s a bookmark?
The bookmark feature helps you keep track of members you
want to remember. To create a bookmark, please follow these
steps:
1. Visit the profile of the member.
2. Click the “add to bookmarks” button below their photo.
This allows you to create a list of bookmarks. This list
is for your use only, and other members won’t know if you’ve
bookmarked their profile. To view your bookmarks, please follow
the instructions below:
1. Select the “Home” link in the blue bar at the top of the
page.
2. Click on the “list” button under your photo.
3. Click the “view bookmarks” button that appears under your
photo.
Maximum number of friends allowed on orkut:
You can have up to 1000 connections on Orkut. If you reach
that limit, you will not be able to add new Orkut friends.
This 1000 limit also includes Open Orkut Invitations - people
you have invited to join Orkut but they haven't done so yet.
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