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Brazil Gets Google To Fight Child Porn

According to Sergio Suiama, a Sao Paulo federal prosecutor, around 50,000 pedophilia-related complaints have been connected to Orkut.  By way of response, Google plans to implement a filtering system and retain information for a longer period, but still won't share problem profiles with authorities.

Google Preparing To Put Applications On Orkut

As with pretty much every tweak made to the social network, we're not sure this will get much attention in the U.S.  People in other countries may be interested, however, as starting this month, social applications will become available to Orkut users.

Orkut Has A Worm

Google's recent addition of an Orkut feature for writing messages containing HTML code allowed someone to send a pesky worm through the network.

Google's OpenSocial To Launch Tomorrow

Google is set to launch OpenSocial tomorrow a system that will allow developers to build applications for a number of social networks.

Orkut Promotes Insignificant Photo Capabilities

A lot of signs indicate that Google is preparing Orkut for something big; it may well want the service to compete with the likes of MySpace and Facebook.  But the latest update - allowing users to keep 100 photos in their “orkut albums” - isn’t impressing too many people.

YouTube Intends To Invade India

The timing’s a little vague, but according to one of the company’s executives, an official YouTube.in site will go live within the next six months.

MySpace Platform To Launch At Web 2.0?

If you dislike Facebook’s many apps, now would be a good time to unplug your computer; reports indicate that MySpace may soon launch a platform encouraging developers to give it some attention, too.

Orkut Intentionally Shrinks Its Numbers

Many companies like to inflate the number of users they claim to have.  Not Google.  Although Orkut used to accidentally overstate communities’ membership counts, the social network is now working to correct the problem.

Google's Focus On Orkut Points To US Push

In some markets - such as search - Google looks more like a bulletproof King Kong than a 900-pound gorilla.  In others - such as social networking - Google is vastly less powerful.  There are signs that Google wants to whip Orkut into shape and fix this, however.

Google Drops Ads From Orkut

Advertising on social networks can be tricky. Google has found this out and has decided to remove all AdSense ads from it social network Orkut.