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 ...

A new malware is leading Orkut users to spam messages that ultimately corrupts their computer, data A new malware is leading Orkut users to spam messages that ultimately corrupts their computer, data ...

Users of Google's Orkut social networking site only have to view their profile to become infected by a new, relatively harmless worm Google’s Orkut social networking site appeared to have been hit by ...

We knew it was coming. Google is shutting down Orkut today, its first attempt at a social networking service. The decision was announced in June and users have had a few months to export their profile ...

Orkut, a Google-owned social network, has had little luck challenging MySpace, hi5, Tagged or Facebook —the undisputed social networking leader (some people even liken Orkut to a poor man’s Facebook).

Facebook is closing in on 700 million users, according to Socialbakers, a website dedicated to tracking statistics about Facebook's pages, applications, advertising and more. Business Insider, looking ...

The upcoming Orkut redesign prompted us to check out Orkut’s page view numbers according to Comscore. U.S. Comscore data shows, as expected, barely a blip from Orkut (Facebook shown for comparison).

Remember Orkut? Yeah, you're not alone if you said no. Orkut was Google's first foray into social networking and, while it never took off in the States, it did in some countries (in particular, India) ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the main themes of my research on digital activism is that social technologies are value-agnostic. At each of the four levels of Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence, ...