Discovering the activities of community members

Have you ever wondered who the most influential users in a particular community are? How active a certain user is in a community, and how much impact his/her participation has on it?

Next time you’re reading a community topic or poll, hover your mouse over someone’s picture to learn about how that user has been contributing to that community. You'll be able to see how many topics and polls that user has created (and replied to), as well as how many comments, likes and votes his/her posts have received.




Follow the most active members in your communities and try to become one yourself!

Posted by Daniel Fireman, Google Engineer

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Discovering the most popular posts of any given topic

Topics in Orkut communities are known to contain interesting and relevant information. Every now and then we come across amazing replies within those topics. With the current functions of communities, some of the most interesting posts tend to get lost in topics with multiple replies. If only there was a way to highlight those amazing messages...

As of today, replies flagged by users as the most interesting will appear in a special section of the topic page:

You can also help flag them by clicking on the "like" button of these fun and interesting posts so that others can see them too!

Posted by Guilherme Ferreira, Google Engineer

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World Environment Day

                                      

Today, June 5th, is World Environment Day. Its celebration began in 1972 at a UN (United Nations) conference. The aim of this conference was to raise worldwide awareness concerning the environment.

Do you know what environment means? According to Wikipedia, it is: "The biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organisms, or population, and includes particularly the factors that have an influence in their survival, development and evolution."

Regardless of the definition you choose, you must understand that preserving the environment today is essential for a healthy, natural resource rich planet tomorrow. So then, shall we begin?

Posted by Koji Pereira, Google Designer 

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