After a while i received a notification email from orkut, though thinking the orkut community is dead so the email did get my attention as it stated that a friend of mine poked me! For a moment i though “WHAT” this kind of emails are suppose to come from facebook but to my reconfirmation it was from orkut and it did say that a friend of mine poked me.

So i logged on to orkut to see what really happened and how could some one from orkut poke me! Once i entered the orkut word allot had changed and made me immediately comfortable as there was allot of similarity of what the new orkut had offered with an application that i had been using before. So i decided to write a review on how the orkut has improved and brought in BRAND new services to its social networking site.

1- Support for Applications >
Add applications and customize your profile with music, games, and more! a new feature by Orkut. Facebook allows its users to ad and customize applications along with privacy settings for the applications.

2- Notifications >
Facebook sends notifications when ever actions are taken …… Orkut sends you notifications via eMail, message ….

3- News Feed - Updates from Friends
Now orkut offers updates from friends see which of your friends added new applications, updated there image gallery and with facebook you get all the notices in the form of mini feeds on your landing page.

4- Privacy Features >
Orkut has now introduced privacy settings,that allows you to be as public or private with your information as you wish. With facebook’s privacy you Control who can see your profile and related information.

Google has come up with a very ambitious project named ‘Friend Connect‘. The Google Friend Connect lets you add social network features to your website with snippets of code from different websites into your own website. Seems more like web widgets which Google have named at ‘Friend Connect’.

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5 essential Firefox Addons for Social Networking
Why not bring your social network life into your browser, i have collected and organized a list of Firefox Ad Ons that will bring our favorite social networking life into our browser, it will add ease of use to access, modify and update with sites like facebook, twitter, digg, YouTube.

Social Networking Addons for Firefox
1- Facebook Extension for Firefox.
First Comes “Facebook” with an average of above 150 million user subscription, facebook has made its self the no1 social networking website. So the “Facebook toolbar for Firefox” is an essential.

Once installed the Facebook Toolbar brings your facebook life to your browser every time you open up the browser you are logged into facebook, you can search facebook, get notified of the pokes, friends requests and messages you receive. A pop-up will notify when friends update there status, write a note or interact with you on facebook. You can also open your friends sidebar, sort them and keep in touch with them. Apart from that if you run groups or a network on facebook you can share content directly from your browser what else do you need. (more…)