We love maps here at gHacks, especially ones that show technology trends around the world.  The latest is asocial networking trends map from Vincenzo Consenza who has partitioned the planet up to show what social networks are predominantly used in which countries. It shows clearly the lack of Facebook access in China and, frankly how many [...]

Categories: The Web

Orkut introduced a new redesigned homepage at the end of October. The new Orkut as its users like to call it is currently invite only meaning that only those Orkut users who received an invitation to join might do so. Everyone else is left with the old Orkut page for now unless they can find [...]

Categories: The Web

Orkut is Google’s social networking attempt. The basic idea was created by one of Google’s engineers who quickly adopted the idea and created the social network Orkut from it. Orkut is one of the most popular websites on the Internet even though it does not receive all the media coverage that networks like Facebook or [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

Google fanatics who regularly work with multiple Google services such as Google Mail Gmail , Google Reader, Google Docs, Blogger, Orkut and a few dozens more might find the Gbutts add-on for the Firefox web browser helpful. That is, if they have not created keyboard shortcuts for the Google services that they use or installed [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google