Two years ago, Facebook had little more than four million visitors in Brazil, according to Ibope Nielsen Online, the reference for ranking of Brazilian web audience. Orkut had been the market leader ...

Just spotted in Orkut, Google’s also-ran social networking site: a new Google+ badge, one of the first integrations between the two services. Orkut members who also have a Google+ account are now ...

Danny Sullivan made a post today at Search Engine Watch quoting a USA Today piece on the alarming amount of Al-Qaeda “fan” groups in Google’s Orkut. Anytime one talks about Orkut the Brazilian ...

Orkut continues to undermine Google’s Data Liberation Front, whose singular goal is to “make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products”. Earlier this month the Orkut friend ...

Google’s first social network Orkut will now let its users link their profiles to Google+, the company announced today on Orkut’s official blog. In practical terms, Orkut users will be able to ...

I was shocked when I opened my Orkut account and found not a single scrap from most of my friends for 4 to 5 months. Already there is a lot of news about “Orkut’s death,” for which Facebook is held ...

Back in the heady days of the early 2000s, early social networking services like Tribe.net, Friendster, MySpace and (yep) Facebook all offered similar features: connecting with other folks via the ...

A kind of nut? An obscure race of extra terrestials in one of the forgettable, recent Star Wars movies. An Eastern European small car! Depending on where you are in the world, these may well be your ...

According to a Google spokeswoman, “Orkut and Google+ are different products, and will both exist. Over time, we’ll determine what makes the most sense in terms of integrating these products.” It’s ...

Orkut is considered to be a pioneer in the social networking service. Orkut rose in to immense popularity and in many ways started the social networking revolution until Facebook arrived in the social ...