A New Way to Answer Scraps

We’ve just launched a convenient way to reply to your friend's scraps: simply reply to the scrap email notification and you're done! This is very handy since you can quickly reply to Orkut scraps without ever leaving your email client.

For security reasons, at this moment this feature is enabled only for Gmail and Yahoo! Mail users. More domains to come, stay tuned!

Daniel Fireman and Ralf Wildenhues, Google Engineers

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Among soccer memories and extreme sports adrenaline

Once many of you enjoy sports and try to live a healthy life, we decided to create two new themes with an inspiration in sports. One of them brings up radical sports figures to your screen while the other one is fully illustrated with great soccer players from the past so you can always enjoy famous soccer stars from all time in your Orkut.

Try and share this fun experience.

Posted by Koji Pereira, Google Designer

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Hashtags in Orkut communities

Our team continues working hard to improve Orkut communities, and today we are introducing a new feature: support for hashtags.

From now on, whenever you're reading a topic, all hashtags will be automatically highlighted and will link to our improved search page, where other posts with the same tag will show up. To create a hashtag, just type # before the hashtag (no spaces allowed), for instance if you post a new topic or a reply and write #hashtagsonorkut, this hashtag will be automatically highlighted. We hope that this gives you a new way of exploring all the content in our communities and that this lets you find what you want more easily.

For now, new hashtags take around one day to show up in search results. We will keep you updated as we continue improving this.

Try it and tell us what you think. Just use #hashtagsonorkut on your new topics and replies in any community!

Posted by Marco Wisniewski, Google Engineer

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