With the advent of Facebook, Orkut seems to be a haunted place now. Atleast my account does. But Google Team behind orkut has not given up and is going to fight with facebook for its market share. Facebook in the past few years has outdone lot of Social Networking including the giant Orkut which once used to be people's favorite.
Google has recently announced the new look and feel on their Orkut Blog and promises some new features that will be activated to everyone in a while without requiring an invitation.
Here is a list of what has been announced on their Blog about their new look and feel.
- Left navigation, to help you get to the most popular features more easily.
- A new larger profile photo, a popular request. Be sure to upload a higher resolution photo of yourself!
- New full profile view, which lets you and your friends see your info, interests, badges, testimonials and recent photos and videos.
- New fullscreen slideshow for photos.
Orkut is also bringing some more surprises which you will start to see in your account very soon.
The new look and feel of Orkut seems to me to be inspired by Facebook. The snapshots released in Orkut's web album shows that the Orkut hasn't got rid of the advertisement at the right pane. And the photo album viewer seems perfect now (facebook photo viewer sucks!).
Google has failed before in attempting for a new look and feel to Orkut and hence the big question - Is this thing going to work out well for Orkut or just another desperate try?
Let's just wait and see.
