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Of late, the number of Indians on Orkut has been increasing rapidly. On October 10, 2006, the Bombay High Court's Aurangabad bench served a notice on Google for allowing a hate campaign against India.[18] This referred to a community on Orkut called 'We Hate India', which initially carried a picture of an Indian flag being burned and some anti-India content.[19]
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Google is the target of a trojan that could be more damaging than the worm that has affected literally dozens of Orkut users. This new trojan... hits Google where it hurts -- its ever-swelling advertising revenues. It redirects Web ads from the AdSense program to a rival ad provider. Bitdefender, the Romanian security-software maker which identified the trojan, does not specify who is serving these third-party ads or how the trojan is propagating. Researchers do say that Google may be powerless to stop the attack, because the malware affects personal computers, not the company's ad servers. Google is unlikely to lose substantial sums, but the search giant cannot enjoy being this helpless.
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Orkut.com is the online social networking service operated by Internet giant Google that competes directly with the likes of Friendster, Facebook and MySpace. Its cutting edge is that Orkut does its competitors one better by providing special forums or "communities" where members can exchange views and ideas.
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The campfire is burning tonight on the Google campus as the company prepares to launch an Orkut sandbox for working with the OpenSocial APIs. Developers will be able to register, get the docs and try out their code on the Orkut "container." Other containers, such as Ning, MySpace and others,... Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Orkut.com, Google OpenSocial, API, Campfire, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber Blog posts 2007-11-01
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Google plans to open up Orkut as a Platform, with fewer restrictions than Facebook. As an example, they say, application developers may be able to host applications on their own servers (Facebook does not permit this). Other Google services will be made available as well “If the plan succeeds, users might begin to see applications combining Orkut with Google Maps that would show where friends are located.”
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A relatively harmless worm has rampaged through Google's social network, Orkut. You probably haven't noticed. That's because Orkut, while popular in Brazil and India, is an ...-ran in the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of Orkut users saw their accounts overwhelmed by spam on their "scrapbooks," Orkut's equivalent of Facebook's Wall. more
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