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I was being told by my friends that Orkut has gone into the tricolor colours to celebrate India’s 60th Independence Day. They were happy that the world would know this, but would they ??

We decided to see if this India Stunt was truly global or just a localised gimmick. And as expected, it was a special thing only for traffic originating from India, with a view to attain Good PR from Indians ? Its a localised doodle to put it straight. As you can see when we accessed Orkut from a non-Indian IP, it showed us the normal page like it does to the Rest of the World.

Schools, Offices and Governments alike like to put curbs on your freedom. For example a search on Google china would reveal considerably censored and doctored results to suit the Chinese government. Schools ban sites so that students are less distracted and use the internet for useful things. Offices ban sites to increase productivity.
So is orkut banned at your workplace or School ? , if yes we have got the perfect solution for you. We always do articles on opera Mini, thats because Opera Mini was the very first cool software me and my brother installed on our mobile phones. So how can Opera Mini help you access blocked and banned sites ?

It works like any other proxy, for people who dont know, proxies are web servers who fetch the page for you. For example, you cant go to the market, you tell your maid to get the stuff and give it to you. In the same way, when your computer is banned from accessing Orkut, you can ask another computer (a proxy) to get Orkut.com for your computer.

You may also log onto http://www.operamini.com/beta/simulator/ and browse to the site of your choice , as the simulator uses a proxy based in Norway, your sites open as though you are not sitting in your school or office, but in Norway in Europe. And here is proof that Orkut works in Opera Mini simulator even if its banned.

To our friends in UAE : We are looking for more such proxies which will allow you to access Orkut.com easily , the current thing we have discovered to access banned Orkut does not allow posting scraps till now, but be aware, we are working on finding new stuff to help you get over the BAN on Orkut placed by your governments.

Orkutproxy.in also looks good, but always think twice before using your username and password on proxies !!!

Well Orkut just keeps getting more addictive doesnt it. The highly addictive social networking site just turned 3 recently and has launched a favourite videos section. Users can post the URLs to their favourite videos on youtube or google video and his/her friends will be able to see it. Not so surprisingly , Orkut , a google company has chosen not to allow MSN videos and other video sites to be used to add favourite videos.

I logged into my Orkut account after a lot of time and saw i had around 800 unread messages, whoa !!! , i open my inbox and see that 99% of messages are from people i dont know. Some sample scam emails include

** you are not gonna miss a chance to make $1000/day at home,the real wealth package***
My dear friend
This is the real way to make money online no doubt in that other sites tell you you can be millionaire like 1,2,3 it’s not like that but there are secrests to make a good income there>>
You can now start living your life the way you want! What does this mean… well for me it means not having to wake up to an alarm clock in the morning. It’s not having to deal with a boss telling me what to do. It’s not working for someone else making them rich while I do all the hard work. It’s not having to worry about paying my bills on time. It means spending time with my family.>>
give your future a chance bye the way it is almost free to try and then you can change your mind I bet you wont

love
Jacky

EVERYONE SHOULD JOIN THIS WEBSITE.
1)WHENEVER YOU SCRAP SOMEONE IN ORKUT YOU WILL GET NOTHING. BUT IN THIS SITE THERE ARE MANY DISCUSSIONS STARTED BY THE USERS YOU JUST HAVE TO RESPOND YOUR OPINION TO THEM YOU WILL BE PAID FOR YOUR EVERY RESPONSE. BELIEVE ME ITS TRUE.

2)EVERY PHOTO THAT YOU UPLOAD ON YOUR PROFILE YOU WILL BE PAID FOR THAT,

3)ALSO THE MEMBERS WHO JOIN THROUGH YOUR REFERENCE YOU WILL GET 25% OF THEIR TOTAL INCOME EVERYDAY.

4)ALSO BY JUST GIVING YOUR OPINION YOU CAN EARN MINIMUM OF 30$/MONTH. ISNT IT INTERESTING?

NOTE:WHILE REGISTERING YOURSELF USE YOUR “GMAIL” ID ONLY.

All of the above messages were fully loaded with refferal messages , most of them for MyLOT , a new site on the block which pays you for uploading pictures , discussions etc. I decided to check the sites, the sites are full of garbage. Discussions range from topics with the mental level ‘is my pimple too’ red to ’should i brush my teeth’.Moreover most users seem to have a mental level of a 3yr old asking stupid questions (dont know whether delibrate or not) , the bad thing is that they encourage people to scam others , dignified referral programs always have a no unsolicitated message policy which is highly put to use but none in this case.

Ghost Orkut Members

These are the people on Orkut with fake profiles merely to send such messages ,Here is the screenshot of the communities tab of one such hooligan , 964 communities , if Orkut doesnt know about it , you got to be kidding me , moreover i tried reporting some of them as bogus, all of those whom i reported still continued to exist till day even after 2 months. This means the report features of Orkut are mere eyewash. I remember the ‘I hate India’ community , everyone i knew had marked it as bogus. Around 2 lakh Indians atleast must have marked it as illegal , but the community ran for sooooooo many days , even now many such communities can be found on Orkut.

Our take is that if you want to earn money on the internet , do work , proper work , make a website , write content , but dont fall for these get rich quick things ,you will waste so much time and end up earning ZERO.

Opera mini it seems is everyone’s favourite , why shouldnt it be , the way it renders huge pages into a few kbs is ultracool. So many people had asked me how to scrap in Opera Mini on Orkut , the answer is simple (If you want to see how to login using Opera Mini onto Orkut , see our previous post
1. Just type what all you need to type in the field

2. Then type this javascript: submitForm(document.getElementById(’b2′),’submit’);

Remove the space between : and s in the above command.

Similarly to know more such tricks , just see the javascript of the action you want to perform on Orkut and then you can use the same javascript URL on your mobile phone browser. This has to be done as Opera mini doesnt support javascript fully till now. Another good news for all you Opera mini fans is that Opera Mini 3 Beta has been released, keep looking at this column for a review !

Well people have been coming here searching for what all and what not. We analyse some search terms

1. Airtel Live 403 Error - Seems like the access denied or the forbidden error , to the person who searched this : You are receiving this as airtel has limited its net access to only the airtel live portal and some selected partner sites (like indiatimes wap , rediff wap and one or two more) . Many people claim to have a solution for using free internet off of airtel’s gprs service. We do NOT reccomend this as Airtel might find out and charge you and that wont be nice believe me.

2. Orkut Addiction - Absolutely the thing you should search for while coming here. Orkut addiction has reached new levels , people spend their free time reading and writing scraps on this so called social networking site. Good thing , India doesnt know about myspace yet or else thise generation will be literally going to the dogs.

3. Index Ignore command - Read the htaccess tutorial i had posted for more on this. This command can be used to refuse the directory index of your site’s folders.
4. Picasa Web Order Prints - We have absolutely no idea on this having never tried this , but we never reccomend web ordering , just goto your nearest market and order. Believe me face to face ordering is much better than online ordering which can sometimes go horribly wrong although it might be cheaper and convinient.

Lets make this search engine strings analysis a weekly feature !!!

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Well till an year back , most of the so called Indian Students (those famous for being studious) had nothing to do in their free time but watch TV or study , but a new bug has hit town, its called Orkut and boy is it spoiling us. I take my own example , overtly studious guy from New Delhi , did nothing but study and blog and read tech things , suddenly i get this urge to goto Orkut and scrap people , people whom i wouldnt talk to in real life and vice versa suddenly become my fans and vice versa and in the whole process a lot of time is wasted. So why do we Orkut ?

Its basic human psychology IMHO , we want company , when we cant get some in real life , we try to get it in the cyberworld , real people in the cyber world vying to be your friends and even soulmates. I goto my college library and i see every internet machine is logged onto Orkut , people wasting their precious time which would have been used to secure their future had it been 3 years back in time. I know of a few people who had earlier deleted their orkut accounts and then remade them , just because they couldnt get over their addiction. See the similarity in Orkut and Drug Addiction (leaving aint easy , you will face rejection)
Then there are people who like to look at it as a conspiracy , is it a conspiracy by the West to dumb us down ? , majority of the communities are full of Indian students , teenagers and people in their 20s at the peak of their productive lives. And what is the discussion in these communities , not good healthy conversation , but jibberish , “would you marry the person above you”, “add one if you are a boy or subtract 1 if you are a girl” , good for nothing nonsensical postings.

Not only stupid , its downright dangerous , with outright strangers making ‘offers of friendship’ to young women and some being gullible enough to accept them even without realising the obvious dangers involved in the act.

Then there are hate based communities , right from communities which proclaim your hate for a teacher to communities which proclaim your hate for another country , people are depicted as witches , national flags burning , is this the kind of thing we want to be involved in. Moreover the so called , report as bogus feature never seems to work, i take the particular example of a ‘we hate india community’ , i am sure about 5000 Indians atleast would have marked it abusive , but it was still there for months and months and months , i believe its still there or maybe it was taken down when someone filed a court case and when Google saw that its site maybe banned for Offensive and anti-nationalist content.
What people need to realise is that Google’s conscience wont stop all this , they are making cold hard cash out of this venture, they recently placed Google Adsense ads on Orkut , plus they made Orkut free for anyone to join too and their social resposibility doesnt seem to be overiding their buisness sense.
What i mean is that we really need to get rid of this addiction or else we are totally doomed !!!

I love my Opera Mini , its so much better than the original Browser that came with my phone , but there was only 1 site it couldnt access

Orkut.com

How could i waste countless hours without Orkut , then the smart techie Rohit comes to the rescue and enables us all to indulge even more , see and observe ::

I have seen some people sit for HOURS at the social networking site called Orkut. Many of them even try to get onto the site through their puny mobile browsers. Some time ago I had written about Opera Mini and how well it rendered pages; even those with Javascript. However it has a flaw… poor/no support for AJAX. With Google pushing its AJAX login box inside an IFrame on every one of its services, logging in through Opera Mini on its sites it next to impossible.

Same with Orkut. So for all you Orkut fanatics out there I came up with a URL that would allow you to get there even with Opera Mini!

Read the whole thing here

Orkut for Opera Mini