Share your Google+ public posts with your Orkut friends

Every day we see more Orkut users creating their profiles on Google+ and sharing lots of interesting content there. Now we are making it easier for Orkut users who also use Google+ to share their updates with their Orkut friends  by linking their profiles.



After you link your profiles, your Orkut profile photo and name will be the same as your Google+ photo and name. In addition, you will be able to share all your public Google+ posts  with your Orkut friends. Your Google+ posts to limited audience or specific circles will remain on Google+ only and will be subject to your privacy settings. As a result, linking your profiles will also make it easier for your Orkut friends to find you on Google+.

Linking your Orkut and Google+ profiles is optional and you can decide whether you want to do it or not. In addition, even after you link them, you can decide if you want to share your public posts with your Orkut friends or not just by accessing your Orkut settings.



Share your opinions about it on the official Orkut Community.

Posted by Diego Fernandes, Google Engineer.

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Find community topics, faster!

While thousands of users search for information on Orkut at any given moment, thousands of topics are created every minute. Wait, did I really say minute?

With this in mind, we are excited to announce that users can now search for Orkut community topics and find updated results about topics they enjoy most, in just a matter of minutes.

Happy searching!

Posted by Daniel Fireman and Ralf Wildenhues, Google Engineers

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Hot topics!

Every day, many interesting discussions arise on our Orkut communities. Whenever we want
to join them, we have to access each of our communities and search for the most recently
created topics. With so much content, sometimes an interesting topic is overlooked simply
because we forgot to check in our communities.

As of today, we will show you a list of the “hottest” topics that are trending in your

communities to guarantee you never lose another interesting discussion. These hot topics can

be found on a new tab, called explore, that we added right on your main communities page.

In addition, you can also filter your results and select to view yesterday’s or last week’s hot
topics.

This way, it will be even easier to discover the most interesting discussions trending in your
communities!

Posted by Maira Nascimento, Google Engineer

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Share your community posts with your friends!

Sometimes, we are engaged in a discussion in one of our favorite communities and we want all of our friends from this community to join in. Today we’re making this super easy for you.
Whenever you create a new community topic or reply, you will have the option to send an update to all your friends who are also members of that community.



This way your friends can always keep up with what you post and maybe find some new and interesting discussions.

Posted by Marco Wisniewski, Google Engineer

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