Explore our communities

We are now making it super easy to find all the great content related to your favorite topics on Orkut. In select communities, you will find a new box that shows the communities similar to the one you are currently visiting. This makes it easier to explore the enormous amount of content available on Orkut.

Similar communities are those that have a significant amount of members in common, which usually flags topics of common interest.

Try it out, we are certain that you will find new communities that you didn't even know existed!

Posted by Marco Wisniewski and Bruno Gusmão, Google Engineers

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Listen to your favorite music on your Orkut

What could be better than listening to your favorite favorite music? Sharing the experience with your friends! Now you can do this directly from your Orkut page: just type in the artist or band name on the YouTube search bar while we select a playlist for you to enjoy. You can watch your favorite video clips while using Orkut, or you can minimize and leave them as background music.

In addition, the songs you listen to will be posted as an activity onto your homepage, that way your friends can also listen along.

We hope you like it!

Posted by Eduardo Ferreira, Google engineer.

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And now, the new Orkut!

Hello Orkut Users!

If you use the old version of Orkut, you've noticed that some pages look different today. Your interface may be much cleaner and simpler. You may have noticed you have more options for personalization. You also may notice that moving around your profile may be much faster. That’s because starting today and over the next few months, we will begin rolling out the new version of the platform to all Orkut users.

You’ll remember that about 3 years ago, we announced that we were testing a new version of Orkut that would be faster and easier to use. We also gave you the option of choosing whether to stay with the version of Orkut that you were familiar with, or to move on to the adventure of the latest platform. Since then, we’ve continued to experiment and update Orkut based on your feedback so that we could offer the best experience possible. And you responded. Now most of you are using the newest version of Orkut, and over the next few months everyone will be using the new platform.

We realize that for some of you, this will take getting used to. However, we want to be able to offer everyone access to some of the exciting things we’re working on and will be bringing to Orkut in the future, at the same time. We look forward to your feedback! It will help us continue to make Orkut a place where you feel comfortable sharing with your friends and experiencing the best Google has to offer. If you have any questions or comments, find us on our Official Orkut Community! We look forward to hearing from you.

Posted by Hermes de Freitas, Bárbara Veloso, and Natália Duarte, Orkut team

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