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Orkut: Developers
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Orkut has opened a limited sandbox that developers can use to start building social apps with the OpenSocial APIs. The APIs for Orkut are currently in an early beta and access is limited to a small number of developers during this period.
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As for the numbers, Orkut currently receives 12.4 million monthly visitors in Latin America, and 11 million per month in the Asia-Pacific region. However, in North America the site receives just 600,000 visitors per month, which will be a tough sell to developers who can alternately build applications for the much larger audience of Facebook, and soon MySpace and hi5, which are ... working on APIs.
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In August 2005 a freeware program made in Delphi called Floodtudo ("tudo" in Portuguese means "everything" - this was developed by a Brazilian) specifically for flooding Orkut. It quickly spread through the users and was easily downloadable (the most common Floodtudo versions were 1.2, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.2). As this program was massively used by thousands of spammers, a big spam wave struck Orkut in September and October 2005. However, changes implemented by the developers in November made this program non-functional.
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