India colours Orkut
Written by Uthfull on August 13, 2007 – 7:10 pmI usually don’t visit social networking websites much but I was quite surprised to land on the front page of Orkut.com and find the Orkut logo coloured in the colours of the India National Flag. Good thinking on the part of the Orkut team to connect to and engage a substantial number of users on their network. They even have a number of polls up for the users asking various questions about the 60 year old baby, who is still growing… growing stronger day-by-day!!
A similar gesture for Pakistan (Aug 14th) would have been appreciated too by the users from Pak I guess. I wonder why the Orkut team didn’t do it. It most definitely has to do with the userbase from both the countries. From what I know, Indians dominate this social network after the Brazillians.
Click here for more info from the official Orkut Blog.
Jai Hind!
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August 13th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Or maybe its coz “India has a higher status”
August 13th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
I have one question??
how do u manage to show this post in “Links to this post” on blogger??
R u using any specific plugin??
I am a wordpress blogger but my links never show up in any blogspot blogs “Links to this post” …
August 13th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Shikhar –> Yes maybe… status depends on what you base it upon. Orkut bases it upon the number of users from a specific country and they know Orkut is far more popular than any other Social Network in India with people wasting countless hours on it.
Rahul –> Dude that’s really not a big deal. When you open the write new page in the wordpress administration panel, scroll down. There you will see some text called Trackbacks. Now open the blogger post. Just above “Links to this post” is a link called “Permalink”. Right click on it and copy the link location. Paste this link in the trackbacks field in the “Write Post” page in your dashboard. Wordpress should do this automatically though. I never have to do it manaully.
August 13th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
The front page is just for the Indian users i.e. IPs from India …
August 14th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Yup! The front page only shows up for Indian users.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Visu, Dhiresh –> I know, I know
August 14th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
hai