Google Gets Stung by Its Own Buzz

The week of Feb. 9, 2010, may go down as one of the worst in Google's corporate history in terms of product launches and public reaction. On that day, Google Buzz (http://buzz.google.com) invaded every Gmail account holders' workspace through an auto-setup, opt-out routine. Other than widespread rumors of an announcement the day before, Gmail users had no warning that potentially highly personal information would suddenly be shared with their most-used contacts (email addresses) through cloud computing technology. Over the ensuing 7 days, Google weathered an angry online swarm of complaints that it had failed to account for personal privacy requirements. On Feb. 16, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that "the company misjudged public reaction to its decision to automatically load its Twitter, Facebook-like Buzz service into Gmail" (The Register, Feb. 17, www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/17/google_buzz_schmidt). Within the week, Google engineers also started tinkering with the Buzz settings, beginning on Feb. 11, the results of which were summarized by Gmail/Google Buzz product manager Todd Jackson in a Feb. 13 Gmail Blog post ("A new Buzz start-up experience based on your feedback," http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-buzz-start-up-experience-based-on.html).

Facebook may elbow out Orkut as top Net hangout

NEW DELHI: Facebook may not be hard on the heels of Google yet but its spectacular growth is threatening to cast the internet search giant’s own

social networking site, Orkut, to the fringes of internet, at least in India.

The world’s second-most visited website after Google, which turned six on Friday, could surpass Orkut in the number of users to become India’s top social networking site by September, say a couple of studies. Though Orkut now has 15.5 million users compared to Facebook’s 10.4 million as of December, the Google site’s additions are at a sluggish 1.8% per month, says data from Mumbai-based Komli Ad Networks. Facebook, in contrast, is growing at a compounded 7.8% a month since July.

Going by this trend, Facebook could well overtake Orkut in India in about seven months. Though that is still some time away, analysts say Google could do well to peek into its past in India and the history of the internet, littered with decaying social networking services such as Six Degrees, Firefly and Friendster. The emergence of Gmail, Google’s mailing service, almost wiped out Hotmail, till then India’s most popular email service. Orkut might meet the same fate as Hotmail soon, they say.

Valentines day orkut scraps

World is celebrating today Valentine’s day 2010 and exchanging gifts from their lovers. Everybody could be searching for some greetings they could send and Scraps that they can paste on there friends scrapbook.

Valentine’s day is also Called Saint Valentine’s day. Actually this was the original name which just shortened to Valentine’s day. This is the day to celebrate love and affection between intimate companions. On this day lovers express their true love by presenting gifts or flowers, offering confectionery and sending greetings cards.

Well for orkut scraps their aremany websites like orkut uncle, 123orkut, tucmuc, orkutlover, foontastic, scrapslive and sendscraps. Every website is fully loaded with greetings that you can paste on their scrapbook.

Well but before posting, one important point is that those persons using new orkut versions shouldn’t directly paste the codes provided, rather they have to click HTML tab first, then paste these code right there, otherwise it could lead some hazy codes out there and no photos.

Well here also i am posting some of the greetings cards which you may like to send to your lovers.

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