Change is unavoidable. Review of the all New Orkut

Coming Jan 22^nd Orkut is going to celebrate its 5^th birthday. Being the most successful free-access social networking service in Brazil and India, Orkut has developed a lot in these years. Though it’s a bad competitor for MySpace and Facebook in United States, it has earned a huge number of followers from Brazil and India in these 5 years. Having a slogan “Who do you know?”, Orkut really stands as a unicorn in the world of social networking services. There are issues too where Google-Orkut team would wish they had done better; ban of Orkut in countries like Iran, Soudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates etc.

Recently Orkut team came up with their new project which was done in a secret manner. They came with the all new Orkut. As disclosed in the latest press release, Orkut new is entirely built on the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) infrastructure. It comes with a bunch of exciting features, user interface enhancements and a refreshing look. There are a lot of features included in this version of Orkut.

Simpler and faster:
As said by the Google-Orkut team this version of Orkut is the fastest, easiest to use social network. Browsing your friend profiles, photos, viewing updates is faster than ever. So you no more need to wait while browsing your friends on Orkut.

Easy Navigation
Now, you can check your mails (Gmail), Check out the maps (Google Maps) from the Orkut interface itself; just like the Google home page. Stay in the Main page and browse any of the Google products by clicking the small header on the top of any page.

State your status!
Wanna tell the world what you’re up to? Try this feature of Orkut. Status stays always at the top of your profile ad also comes in the friends’ updates immediately. I guess, this was already there in the old Orkut. So what’s new? You can comment on your friend’s status message in the ‘friends updates’ section. Cool huh?

It’s all ‘about me’ with more customization
Are you done with the writing part of “about me”? Still not satisfied? Try this All new About me from new Orkut. You can add a YouTube video, a photo or even embedded applications into your “about me”. Cool feature if you consider yourself an extrovert dying to let the world know more about you.

Fast photo uploads and photo sharing
According to Google-Orkut team, now uploading a photo is 3x faster than before. You can select multiple photos, upload them, drag and drop them as you want, rotate them, pick an album cover, add captions, share the album with group of friends with a single click, tagging your photos, inviting your friends to see your photos from outside of Orkut within a fraction of seconds. Phew! So many features to be listed :-S

There are a lot of more features to be explored in this version of Orkut. Excited to experience this version of Orkut?

- You can join Poppy and Shashi on the official community; http://www.orkut.co.in/neworkut and you can have the new ways to join the New Orkut suggested by the owners.

- Do you have a friend who already got into Orkut New? Get an invitation from him/her. The friends who already got into New Orkut can be identified by this icon   (Looks like the icon of Halo, huh! ) that appears next to their names on their profile pages.

So what’re you waiting for? Try these two steps and experience the new world of Orkut.

Happy Orkutting