Orkut, the social networking community site owned by Google, has rolled out OpenSocial applications to its users in India and will continue to expand geographically over the next few weeks. The OpenSocial API, on which Orkut’s platform is based, was launched by Google last year.

Apps are integrated directly into your orkut experience. When you log into your profile, you will be able to add up to 25 apps to your orkut profile. Your friends will see all the apps you’ve added, be able to interact with them, and can add any apps they like to their own profiles.

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You may have noticed that the Orkut logo looked a little different when you signed in today, this bcoz Orkut celebrate its 4th birth day. It has grown up pretty fast, with many more features, communities, friends and photos since it first opened as an invite-only community.

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If you’re young and Internet-savvy, you probably run an account on a social networking website.

And if you live in WWW, chances are that website is either Orkut or Facebook or MySpace.

Orkut is run by Google — the site was launched in January of 2004 and named after Orkut B�y�kk�kten, the Turkish Google employee responsible for its creation. It helps you meet new friends, get in touch with old ones and permits the creation of community forums that users can be part of.

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Well, we all know how Orkut is being misused, so why do Indians, especially women and girls, stick with it when there are better alternatives available? Facebook for example, offers some of the best privacy features among all the social networking sites. You can choose who can see your profile and what information can or cannot be searched. You can pick and choose select parts of your profile for a select group of friends. You can control what information is shared when you message or send a friend request.

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Social networking site Facebook is growing rapidly in India according to a report by comScore. From 238,000 users in January 2007, Facebook has grown by 230 per cent to 785,000 users from India in June 2007. According to the report, Facebook’s growth in India was remarkable between April and June 2007, when it added 323,000 users.

I created my Facebook profile in the same period and I find that Facebook is a much better product that Orkut.

But Orkut is still ten times larger than Facebook, with 7.2 million Indian users as of June 2007. It added nearly a million new users during April-June 2007.

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