[I'M SORRY] A sneak peek at the +1 promobox for Orkut

Yeah, Orkut gains +1 and Google is serious about that.
See my articles:
[PREDICTIONS] Future Orkut features
[PREDICTIONS] Orkut won't get killed by Google

And now I stumbled over 2 nice graphics that were created to promote Google +1 in a promobox on Orkut. I like the fact that they matched the styles to fit Orkut's look and feel :)

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The first png is called "help_people.png" and fo' sure will carry some nice text to introduce people to the benefits of +1. Probably it will ask the users to +1 Orkut to give it a try.

<div style="margin: 20px 40px 0px 290px;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;">Help people find the stuff you love on Google search<\/div>

The second one is called "thanks_for_plusoneing.png" haha. I like that :D It will be displayed after.. you might have guessed it... plusoneing Orkut ^^

<div style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px;font: 22px normal; color: #fff;">Thanks for +1\'ing Orkut!<\/div>

So, dear doubters: Google loves Orkut.

cheers :D

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Yeah, Orkut gains +1 and Google is serious about that.
See my articles:
[PREDICTIONS] Future Orkut features
[PREDICTIONS] Orkut won't get killed by Google

And now I stumbled over 2 nice graphics that were created to promote Google +1 in a promobox on Orkut. I like the fact that they matched the styles to fit Orkut's look and feel :)

source

source

The first png is called "help_people.png" and fo' sure will carry some nice text to introduce people to the benefits of +1. Probably it will ask the users to +1 Orkut to give it a try.

<div style="margin: 20px 40px 0px 290px;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;">Help people find the stuff you love on Google search<\/div>

The second one is called "thanks_for_plusoneing.png" haha. I like that :D It will be displayed after.. you might have guessed it... plusoneing Orkut ^^

<div style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px;font: 22px normal; color: #fff;">Thanks for +1\'ing Orkut!<\/div>

So, dear doubters: Google loves Orkut.

cheers :D

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[I'M SORRY] A sneak peek at the +1 promobox for Orkut

[PREDICTIONS] Future Orkut features

Aaaaaand there we are again.
After I nom nommed some awesome stuff, I'm ready to roll again :)

Ok, I don't know (yet) if the amount of stuff I'll find in Orkut's code justifies it's own blog-entry, because I'm writing it while I'm sneaking through the code, but I'll just start :D

First things first: As I mentioned in my last post: Google won't kill Orkut. (good decision) It wouldn't make any sense to kill it! It is successful in India and Latin America AFAIK, so why should they piss off a loyal user base?
What I would do (and what Google will probably do) is to integrate Orkut into the upcoming Google Social Experience (I still don't know the codename yet... pinto is something different AFAIK, madrelease was +1, chili is Buzz, Typhoon is unknown, pixy is also unknown).

Aaaaand there we have the first evidence that Google loves Orkut and gives it the attention it deserves:

plus one, baby! ;D

Ok. After we silenced now Captain Crunch and ZDnet or how this third class blog is called, the adults can talk again.

Your <a href=\"https://profiles.google.com\">Google Profile<\\/a> has been created, now you can start spreading your +1\\'s to your friends and to the world! Happy +1\\'s :-)

So, plus one isn't active yet in Orkut, but as far as I can tell, the (plusOne) integration is already 100% finished.

And now to something really interesting: Orkut will get it's own +1 tab!

<p>You can see your +1\\'s on the <a href=\"http://www.google.com\">Google Web Search<\\/a> on your <a href=\"http://profiles.google.com\">Google Profile<\\/a> and on your <a href=\"Main#Notifications?plusone=1\">Orkut +1 tab<\\/a>. 


They are also visible to your friends on <a href=\"Main#Notifications?plusone=1\">Orkut +1 tab<\\/a>, you may <a href=\"Main#ProfileSettings\">hide them<\\/a> if you wish.


Something else I noticed, was the opensocial gadget support that is found in every Google product. I guess Orkut already supported these gadgets (just like iGoogle), but the whole system was revitalized and "might" bridge between the different services. I don't have the people-widget yet, but I bet par definition and in the code it's one of these opensocial-gadgets. I don't know if the gadgets are interportable between all those Google services but it would be quite cool. (Add Gadget by url anyone?) But it will probably just be internal for now.

IF that would be the case, I really really wish, that there will be quite a few official, shiny, well working Gadgets... The 3rd party ones in iGoogle are mostly... rubbish. Some are good, but... there is a lot of outdated unsupported stuff floating around there.. Not good. (showing the last date of update would be a great addition to the iGoogle widget-selection-thingy)

Yeah and the Media-Picker/Cloud-Picker gets standardized (or was already, I can't remember) over all products as it seems :)

So far so good, that's all I know for now!

cheers

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Aaaaaand there we are again.
After I nom nommed some awesome stuff, I'm ready to roll again :)

Ok, I don't know (yet) if the amount of stuff I'll find in Orkut's code justifies it's own blog-entry, because I'm writing it while I'm sneaking through the code, but I'll just start :D

First things first: As I mentioned in my last post: Google won't kill Orkut. (good decision) It wouldn't make any sense to kill it! It is successful in India and Latin America AFAIK, so why should they piss off a loyal user base?
What I would do (and what Google will probably do) is to integrate Orkut into the upcoming Google Social Experience (I still don't know the codename yet... pinto is something different AFAIK, madrelease was +1, chili is Buzz, Typhoon is unknown, pixy is also unknown).

Aaaaand there we have the first evidence that Google loves Orkut and gives it the attention it deserves:

plus one, baby! ;D

Ok. After we silenced now Captain Crunch and ZDnet or how this third class blog is called, the adults can talk again.

Your <a href=\"https://profiles.google.com\">Google Profile<\\/a> has been created, now you can start spreading your +1\\'s to your friends and to the world! Happy +1\\'s :-)

So, plus one isn't active yet in Orkut, but as far as I can tell, the (plusOne) integration is already 100% finished.

And now to something really interesting: Orkut will get it's own +1 tab!

<p>You can see your +1\\'s on the <a href=\"http://www.google.com\">Google Web Search<\\/a> on your <a href=\"http://profiles.google.com\">Google Profile<\\/a> and on your <a href=\"Main#Notifications?plusone=1\">Orkut +1 tab<\\/a>. 


They are also visible to your friends on <a href=\"Main#Notifications?plusone=1\">Orkut +1 tab<\\/a>, you may <a href=\"Main#ProfileSettings\">hide them<\\/a> if you wish.


Something else I noticed, was the opensocial gadget support that is found in every Google product. I guess Orkut already supported these gadgets (just like iGoogle), but the whole system was revitalized and "might" bridge between the different services. I don't have the people-widget yet, but I bet par definition and in the code it's one of these opensocial-gadgets. I don't know if the gadgets are interportable between all those Google services but it would be quite cool. (Add Gadget by url anyone?) But it will probably just be internal for now.

IF that would be the case, I really really wish, that there will be quite a few official, shiny, well working Gadgets... The 3rd party ones in iGoogle are mostly... rubbish. Some are good, but... there is a lot of outdated unsupported stuff floating around there.. Not good. (showing the last date of update would be a great addition to the iGoogle widget-selection-thingy)

Yeah and the Media-Picker/Cloud-Picker gets standardized (or was already, I can't remember) over all products as it seems :)

So far so good, that's all I know for now!

cheers

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[PREDICTIONS] Future Orkut features

[PREDICTIONS] Orkut won't get killed by Google

I've heard a lot of concerns about Google's new social course and if they might shut down Orkut... so I took my time and sneaked around in Orkut's code to find some evidence and you know what?

Orkut will get a full plusOne integration and got quite some other mods that aren't online yet.

So, for all the haters and all those who are worried: Orkut won't get slashed. It wouldn't make any sense to kill it after investing lots of work into integrating a new social key element of Google's upcoming Social experience. That wouldn't make much sense.

And btw.: Orkut is pretty neat after the upgrade. I don't know if you guys have the same layout etc as I have (it says Beta), but it is quite cool and has a solid fanbase. It might be not as popular as facebook, but it has it's highlights.

I'll sneak around in the code a little later, maybe I find some other cool stuff...

cheers!

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I've heard a lot of concerns about Google's new social course and if they might shut down Orkut... so I took my time and sneaked around in Orkut's code to find some evidence and you know what?

Orkut will get a full plusOne integration and got quite some other mods that aren't online yet.

So, for all the haters and all those who are worried: Orkut won't get slashed. It wouldn't make any sense to kill it after investing lots of work into integrating a new social key element of Google's upcoming Social experience. That wouldn't make much sense.

And btw.: Orkut is pretty neat after the upgrade. I don't know if you guys have the same layout etc as I have (it says Beta), but it is quite cool and has a solid fanbase. It might be not as popular as facebook, but it has it's highlights.

I'll sneak around in the code a little later, maybe I find some other cool stuff...

cheers!

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[PREDICTIONS] Orkut won't get killed by Google