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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.

Google Webmaster Central Adds Subscriber Stats

Late last Friday, Google's Webmaster Central Blog reported some additional features which included the ability for publishers to see the number of subscribers to their content.

Orkut Adds "Updates From Your Friends" Box

Roughly ten days ago, Robert Scoble suggested that Facebook would, in a few years’ time, defeat Google.  Pretty much everyone within hearing range responded with something along the lines of “fat chance,” and I agree with ‘em.  Still, Orkut is just now introducing a feature that Facebook had about a year ago.

Orkut Impresses comScore?

Prior to Friday - and Thursday - I can’t remember the last time I wrote about Orkut.  Google’s social networking site just isn’t in the news that often.  But as the existence of those two recent articles probably caused you to realize, Orkut’s been making headlines lately, and new data from comScore suggests that it’s a much bigger contender than most people thought.

Google.br Might Face Shut Down

In a surprising update on Google protecting user information, in Brazil the search giant apparently has refused to divulge details of pedophiliac Orkut users to authorities. An Associated Press article informs that Brazilian prosecutors say Google has not provided Orkut user information regarding crimes.

Aging Orkut Receives Facelift

Orkut was getting pretty elderly - Google’s social network suffered from a design that was several years old (and not even impressive when it first debuted).  The company’s promised to address the issue with a new update, however.