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Facebook has finally done it, it has overtaken Google's Orkut in Brazil, the social network's final holdout. Facebook now has only a handful of countries where it is still not the number one, several of those being countries where the site is blocked altogether.comScore reports that Facebook had 36 million ... |
18 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Facebook is an established player in much of the world, at least in the developed world. It's not gaining too many new users in the US or in the UK for the very simple reason that there aren't that many people not using Facebook left.
That's a different story in many places around the world, while 201... |
9 January 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Google+ has been growing steadily. It has several tens of millions of users, the latest official figures are about 45 million. That's all well and good for Google, finally it has a successful social network.But it's faced with a problem in Brazil where it already has a successful social network, Orkut.Googl... |
17 November 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Social networking has taken over the web, that much is for sure. Most people are at least aware of this type of sites and many have set up profiles. Unsurprisingly, the most popular social network, globally, is Facebook, but there are other popular names as well.A study by InSites Consulting focused on social network... |
18 October 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Everyone is loving Google+, so far, and are praising it as the first successful social web product from Google. But Google does have another social network, a very traditional one at that, Orkut. While the site is not really popular in much of the world, it has been doing particularly well in India and Brazil.Now tha... |
18 July 2011
12:01 GMT |
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It's no big surprise that Facebook, even at its size, is still growing at a steady pace. While the latest official numbers, from a few months ago, say that there are 500 million users, the unofficial ones show that it's getting close to 700 million, this while actually losing some users in countries where a... |
30 May 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Facebook dominance of the social space is undeniable, but it still has a few hold-out countries. Brazil is one of them and it's the last place where Google's solution, Orkut, still reigns and by a safe margin. According to the latest data from comScore, Orkut is still the number one social networking site i... |
8 October 2010
11:28 GMT |
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A cross-site scripting vulnerability was exploited Saturday on Orkut to launch a fast-spreading worm that auto-posted a rogue message reading "Bom Sabado" on people's scrapbooks."Bom Sabado" means "Good Saturday" in Portuguese, which led some people to assume that the worm originated in Brazil, where Orkut has a... |
27 September 2010
08:08 GMT |
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With Google's well documented failures in the social web department, it's easy to forget that the company does actually own a, somewhat popular, social network, Orkut. While Orkut is relatively unknown in much of the world, it is particularly popular in Brazil and India and the social network is now getting... |
25 August 2010
06:08 GMT |
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Scammers are tricking Orkut users into pasting malicious JavaScript code in their browser's address bar, with the promise of receiving a free recharge code for their mobile phones. Users who fall for the scam end up with their Google login credentials stolen.It all starts with users receiving a link on Orkut tha... |
30 June 2010
07:11 GMT |
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The big rumor over the weekend in the web world has been Google Me, a supposed revamp of Google Profiles which would turn the product into a Facebook competitor. Rumors are common in the web business world and they vary from the ludicrous to the rock solid, but most of them don’t come from the CEOs of high prof... |
28 June 2010
05:27 GMT |
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There are a multitude of file-sharing options out there. For huge files, there are always peer to peer protocols like BitTorrent, you can share files on countless 'file locker' sites like Rapidshare or you could use simple tools like Drop.io. Yet, there are times when even the simplest of services is too mu... |
30 March 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Mobile phone users who own an Android-based device can now enjoy a new application on their handsets, namely orkut for Android. The new social software solution offers users the possibility to stay connected with their orkut friends while on the go, while also including a series of appealing features, such as live f... |
20 March 2010
06:38 GMT |
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Facebook pretty much dominates the social networking field around the world. With 300 million users there isn't anything even remotely close to it. Still, there are some countries where the social network hasn't fared so well yet and, notably, Brazil and India are big Orkut strongholds and Facebook is very ... |
2 October 2009
05:03 GMT |
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Facebook is now pretty much synonymous with social networking about all over the world. Sure, there are plenty of other social networks, some quite successful like MySpace, but nothing even comes close on the global scale. Still, Facebook isn't completely satisfied until it becomes the biggest social network in ... |
1 October 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Social network websites enjoy, worldwide, a well-defined and engaged audience. Japan makes no exception to the rule, as over 56 million users were reported to have accessed their personal social network webpage at least once in June. While Mixi, a Japan-based network, recorded the largest audience, of almost 13 milli... |
8 August 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Run by Google, this service provides online social networking and was created by a Google employee. All over the world there are about 60 million Orkut users and a staggering 50% of them are from Brazil. Since illegal material was plentiful on Orkut, the Brazilian legislators and Google had to come to an agreement i... |
7 July 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Similar discussions surfaced in the past so it shouldn't be too surprising that Google disclosed private details concerning a user as part of a police investigation. According to Network World, the Pune police arrested Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid a few days ago under charges of publishing obscene content on the Inte... |
20 May 2008
04:47 GMT |
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Google's orkut has recently received a new upgrade, which comes in the form of a larger storage space for the users' photos. This new upgrade is released eight months after October's latest increase of photo storage space. Back then, Google orkut proudly announced its users that they could upload up to... |
7 May 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Google has always said that users' privacy is extremely important and its efforts to protect it were applauded even by international authorities. However, the Mountain View-based company has just handed over private information about some users to the Brazilian authorities, as part of an investigation supposed t... |
24 April 2008
06:33 GMT |
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Google's social network Orkut is quite popular among the Brazilian Internet users and this is not always a good thing, mainly if the content appearing on the website shouldn't be published on such a page. On Wednesday, Alexandre Hohagen, the man in charge of Google Brazil, said that the Mountain View-based ... |
10 April 2008
04:33 GMT |
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The great Google turned about some shortcomings in the last fiscal quarters, mostly due to not being able to monetize its advertising on the MySpace social network. With an earful of criticism and hurt pride, the Mountain View-based company simply cannot turn away from the segment and admit its defeat.According to a ... |
7 February 2008
16:56 GMT |
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Google's social network Orkut has suffered what seems to be the most dangerous attack these days, as no less than 400,000 accounts have been compromised. Alice Decker of Trend Micro today reported that numerous Orkut registered users received a malicious email informing them that a new Scrapbook entry was added.... |
19 December 2007
13:41 GMT |
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Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers' catchphrase is, I think, the one that best describes where Google is going to. The Mountain View based company is trying to unite its users under one single profile that will link from there to all the services it graces us with. This is coming in, one step at a time, and... |
17 December 2007
05:26 GMT |
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The Mountain View company made what seems to be the smartest move to respond to its rivals' evolution into the social networking battle where the web firms are allying with top players to expand their technologies. Today, Google officially released OpenSocial, a set of APIs which can help the developers design s... |
2 November 2007
04:28 GMT |
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The Brazilian version of Google as well as the local flavor of Orkut might be banned in Brazil if the search giant doesn't agree to disclose private information about some users that were identified as pedophiles. The social networking website Orkut is the most visited website in Brazil and, as AccuraCast report... |
29 August 2007
06:02 GMT |
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