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A Brazilian judge gave Google 15 days (as of yesterday) to deliver the data of Orkut users accused of illegal activity. Google's social site, a failure in the U.S., took off in Brazil, apparently attracting the child pornographers and hate-speech writers that the governement is now chasing down. more
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Google's social network, Orkut, has been attacked by a worm that uses "scrap book" messages to propogate. It's only action is to spread and add Orkut members to a group called "infected by the Orkut virus." according to this IDG news article. Tags: Google Inc., Orkut.com, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Stiennon Blog posts 2007-12-19
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Sergey and Larry flew to Brazil this week, scouting out the country that invaded Google's Orkut. Google wants to expand services in the developing nation, saying that the "lack of legal, cultural and censorship barriers" makes it a great spot to work. Maybe so, or maybe Google just wants to get close to the only people who liked Google's social network site. more
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Google is releasing applications built on the Open Social API running on Orkut at the end of this month, and is holding "hackathons" February 7-8 and February 14-15 at Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters for OpenSocial developers. Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google OpenSocial, API, Fact, MySpace, Social Graph API, Dan Farber Blog posts 2008-02-06
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The head of Google's Brazilian operation is facing criminal contempt charges for refusing to turn Orkut users' data over to police. And next month there is a hearing in a case brought by a São Paulo prosecutor threatening daily fines of $100,000 or the shuttering of Google's Brazil office. "We have won," says Thiago Tavares Nunes de Oliveira, a 28-year-old Brazilian law professor who wrote the graphic report and has crisscrossed Brazil making the case that Google allowed Orkut to become a redoubt of criminal activity, including child pornography and racist speech.
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The Spyware Guide has broken wide open a story involving Google's Orkut service. Having discovered what it has dubbed "Orc.Malware", the Spyware guide has investigated and found that Google's Orkut is infested with the malwaree.
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