It’s good to see how social networking sites learn from each other .

Site:Orkut.com

I logged into Orkut after a LONG time and noticed an announcement about the applications which said "India Dekha" and said "Add applications and customize your profile"

The concept of applications on social networking platform is not new, Facebook introduced this concept about a year ago. I think applications on Orkut will be more extensively used when compared to Facebook applications because of its huge user base and its target audience.

Orkut has become favorite pass time for college going and other individual in the same age group which is why these applications will have more users than applications on Facebook. if you are an Indian company then this is the right time to create your application to use the power of social media to your advantage.

India Dekha – Add Applications and Customize Your Profile

Google decided to go the Facebook way and I say what’s wrong with it? Orkut was one of the first social networking sites and is very popular in countries like Brazil and India. Starting this month Orkut will enable developers to create their own social applications and run on Orkut.

OpenSocial application developers can submit their completed applications by end of Feb 15th after which these applications will be rolled out to the users. Google plans to ramp more than 50 million people over next few weeks. It is also holding something called orkut hackathons for the same purpose; however, this is only for Mountain View and New York offices. 

E-mail hackathon.rsvp@gmail.com for more information.