Category: Orkut

Orkut Share link for your Website / Blogger, WordPress blogs

Google has announced Orkut Share API (similar to Facebook share ) which can be added to any website / blog.Use the below javascript codes for Adding Orkut Share link to your website(s).

Description about the javascript parameters:
(Note: if you want a text only link, please use
customText : “Share this on Orkut!” instead of
customImage : ‘http://i48.tinypic.com/9urbs9.png’
in any of the below code)

1. Adding the default Orkut Share button to any webpage

<script
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/orkutShare.js">
</script>



2. Adding a custom Image with Orkut Share link

<script>var orkutShare = {
customImage : 'http://i48.tinypic.com/9urbs9.png'
}</script>
<script
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/orkutShare.js">
</script>

You can use your own Image by providing the Image url in the above code (In the place of http://i48.tinypic.com/9urbs9.png)


3. Sharing a custom URL, Page Title with default Image

<script>var orkutShare = {
url : 'http://www.didiknow.com',
title: 'Did I Know?'
}</script>
<script
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/orkutShare.js">
</script>

4. Sharing a custom URL, Page Title with a custom Image

<script>var orkutShare = {
url : 'http://www.didiknow.com',
title: 'Did I Know?',
customImage : 'http://i48.tinypic.com/9urbs9.png'
}</script>
<script
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/orkutShare.js">
</script>

5. Want more custom? you can provide the content text, and Thumbnail of your webpage, and also the message for sharing the page

<script>var orkutShare = {
url : 'http://www.didiknow.com',
title: 'Did I Know?',
customImage : 'http://i48.tinypic.com/9urbs9.png',
content : 'A blog that follows Google, Friend connect,
GMail, Chrome and more..',
shareText : 'Check out this website',
thumbnail : 'http://i50.tinypic.com/2luuxw5.png'
}</script>
<script
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/orkutShare.js">
</script>

Change the URL and Page title to your own URL and Page title.

Adding Orkut Share link for Blogger blogs





1. Goto Blogger dashboard of your blog.
2. Goto Layout tab, click “Edit Html”
3. Check the “Expand Widget Templates” checkbox
4. Locate
<div class='post-footer'>
in the template.
5. Just below the above code, paste any of the below code snippet, and save the template.


Default Orkut Share Image

<script>var orkutShare = {
url : '<data:post.url/>',
title: '<data:post.title/>'
}</script>
<script
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/orkutShare.js">
</script>


Custom Orkut Share Image

<script>var orkutShare = {
url : '<data:post.url/>',
title: '<data:post.title/>',
customImage : 'http://i48.tinypic.com/9urbs9.png'
}</script>
<script
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/orkutShare.js">
</script>

You can use your own Image by providing the Image url in the above code (In the place of http://i48.tinypic.com/9urbs9.png)

Adding Orkut share link to WordPress blog
Paste the following code on your single.php file, within the loop:

<a href="http://promote.orkut.com/preview?nt=orkut.com&
tt=<?php the_title();?>&du=<?php the_permalink();?>"
target="_blank">Share on Orkut</a>


Instead of “Share on Orkut” text, you can use any image, like,

<a href="http://promote.orkut.com/preview?nt=orkut.com&
tt=<?php the_title();?>&du=<?php the_permalink();?>"
target="_blank">
<img src="http://code.google.com/apis/orkut/docs/images/share.gif"
border=0>
</a>

You many also want to add Facebook, Digg, Buzz, Tweet buttons or/and

Delicious bookmark button + Counter for your website, Blogger blog


Orkut Share on Google Code

New Orkut ! 10 improvements to notice

Google finally improves its Social Networking site Orkut! to compete with Facebook and Twitter.

The initial version of the Orkut site was built with Microsoft’s ASP/dotnet technologies.

Now, Orkut gets ride of the Microsoft’s technologies.
Google has announced a new version of orkut which will be using Google’s own web toolkit (GWT).

The new orkut is much simpler, faster and powerful.

Few changes I noticed:
1. All your status updates will be retained. (The older version can retain only the latest status update).
2. Status updates can get comments (older version didn’t have this option).
3. Finally, the new orkut has got a wall, that is similar to that of Facebook wall. The wall shows the updates like Friend addition, Videos, Photos shared, etc.
You can directly comment on your friend’s updates from your wall.
4. Videos can get comments. (older version didn’t have this option).
5. Got applications for Twitter, Google Latitude, Personalized themes (with the image you choose/upload) and more.
6. Recent Visitors of your profile are shown along with their profile photos.
7. Show more updates, Show more scraps, Show More videos links at the bottom of your wall/scrapbook can load more updates/scraps/videos in the same page inline (just like twitter!)
8. Photo albums can be created / organized more easily with the new interface.
9. All your friends/communities can be viewed from the home page’s (wall) sidebar window, by scrolling down.
10. Video chat comes to orkut too. (previously it was only in Gmail - talking about Google’s services only.)

The new orkut is open only to the invited users.

Getting invites for the new orkut:
1. Join the community, http://www.orkut.com/neworkut
2. Apply here

The Orkut page now uses 100% of the browser window width.
The site also promotes Orkut Addon for firefox.
Hope this new orkut can give some competition to Facebook.

Checkout some interesting sketches about new orkut here

View your Orkut Scraps in GMail

(Please also read the updated post for viewing orkut in Gmail in Full view ).

Orkut Scrapbook in GMail

As I mentioned in my previous post, we can add any google gadget to our GMail page.

Let us add Your Orkut Scrapbook to GMail.

1. Go to Labs in gmail.

(Labs are available only in Internet Explorer 7.0+, Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0+, and Google Chrome.)

2. In Labs tab, under Gmail Settings, Enable “Add any gadget by URL” feature, Save changes.

3. Now Go to the Gadgets tab in GMail settings.

4. Give the gadget‘s url as

http://xmlgadgets.com/ig/scraps.xml

and add.

Add Your Scrapbook to iGoogle

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Orkut Friends’ Birthdays in Google Calendar, GMail

Google has formatted Orkut Friends birthday details in a calendar format, to be used in Google Calendar.

Google Calendar was already available in GMail. Now by integrating Orkut birthdays in Google calendar, it also gets integrated to GMail.

Today, I saw a link in orkut, “view your friends’ birthdays in Google Calendar” .

Google Calendar, asks for confirmation to add the calendar “orkut friends’ birthdays”.

In one click, I added all my friend’s Birthday’s into my Google Calendar.

If you want to see your Google Calendar containing your friend’s birthdays in your Gmail page,

1. Go to GMail Labs settings.

2. Enable, Google Calendar Gadget.

Google Calendar Gadget in GMail

3. Save the settings.

If you have more gadgets in GMail navigation bar, you can enable drag and drop of gadgets, by enabling “Navbar drag and drop” in GMail Labs settings

Directly add orkut Bithdays gadget in GMail

Orkut Birthday’s gadget in GMail

Orkut Birthdays in GMail

As I mentioned in my previous post, we can add any google gadget to our GMail page.

Let us add Orkut Birthdays gadget by Google to GMail.

If you have not activated Labs in GMail,

1. Go to Labs in gmail.

(Labs are available only in Internet Explorer 7.0+, Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0+, and Google Chrome.)

2. In Labs tab, under Gmail Settings, Enable “Add any gadget by URL” feature, Save changes.

3. Now Go to the Gadgets tab in Gmail settings.

4. Give the gadget‘s url as

http://www.google.com/ig/modules/orkut_bdays.xml
and add.

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Add Yahoo Mail/ Hotmail gadget to GMail/iGoogle
Add Orkut Birthdays gadget to GMail/iGoogle
Add Orkut Scrapbook gadget to GMail/iGoogle