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Where’s the Orkut Platform?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

On a conference call announcing the Open Social foundation a couple weeks ago, Joe Kraus of Google at one point mentioned that Orkut would be launching their platform the same week that Hi5 did. Since then Google has been quiet about Orkut. A post on the Orkut developer blog states that they&% ... Continue reading »

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  • Danny

    1 year ago

    I don't personally use Orkut, but yes we're launching our OpenSocial app on Orkut (it's live now on MySpace and hi5, see www.amnestywidgets.com/HypercubeOS.html). Because we had already ported the app from Facebook to Friendster the move to OpenSocial wasn't too much work (Facebook specific code had already been identied and replaced). Most of our work for Orkut was providing a Portuguese translation so that we cover as many of Orkut's existing users as possible.

    True, the platforms are rolling out slowly and the user uptake is slow compared to Facebook, but competition is always good for the enduser.

    Although I have no confirmation of this, my gut tells me Google will be migrating iGoogle (which has a mindboggling huge user base) to OpenSocial. That will make moving to OpenSocial much more attractive to app developers.
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