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Sunday, February 14, 2010 0 comments

Orkut recently secretly added a new feature to orkut. When you join any community, it will be visible to all of your friends on their homepage as an update.

This is actually an attempt to bump communities on Orkut as the integrity of communities was somewhere got lost with the addition of new features like Status update as when you update your status, people will comment on it & it will act like a forum. This way no one would be interested in going to the communities.

So what’s your opinion regarding this? Drop in your comments!

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Rules Have Changed – How to Gain Ownership of Ownerless Communities?

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010 0 comments

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 ownership of ownerless communities. New Rule for Taking Ownership of Ownerless Communities

The required community membership age to assume ownership of an ownerless community has been updated. It previously used to be a week. Now you need to have been a member of the community for at least 3/4th the age of the community to be eligible for the same. In other words only old community members will see the ‘gain ownership’ link. This change was made to ensure the safely of orkut communities and might be further tweaked in the best interest of orkut and its users. We are in the process of updating the Help center and all other related pages- I will post back here when the changes are live. In the meantime, thanks to all of you for flagging this for us! Thanks again, Samaira, Google Employee.

So, earlier any member of that particular community who was 7 days old was able to take ownership of that ownerless community but as per the new rule, you need to be thye member of the community for atleast 3/4th the age of community. A nice update.. Google explains it here. Also note: In case your profile gets deleted, moderators of the community will not automatically be granted ownership of the community as per google’s clarification here. In any case, adding your freind’s or your other profile as co-owner of your community.

The Very Best of 2009 – Orkut Communities

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Sunday, January 3, 2010 0 comments

One of my personal favorite orkut related blog, Orkut Heroes! has compiled a great list of top communities of 2009 in different niches.

As we are approaching towards another new year of 2010, I decided to bring out all those orkut communities in front of the world which have proved themselves as most successful online communities from their date of creation till the end of the year 2009. Hence, I tried to list down 110 top orkut communities of 2009. Check out – The Top Orkut Communities of 2009.

I am sure you all will enjoy reading that article as much as i did .