Nowadays, Orkut modifying its interface by providing ore options to customize user profiles. For example, Orkut has given splash of color to users to set the background. Also Orkut included face detection facility in images and photos.
Orkut include various Google products into it, and in future, pull components from Maps or Wave into Orkut. Currently, the same session of chat runs for GMail, GTalk client and on Orkut. Also video chat has been integrated from GTalk, Face Detection in photos from Picasa.
In future modification there is challenge like: How do you surface content from those 15 people on that day, and how do we push that 10-15 people in front of you so it’s easy to interact with them.”
Also Orkut is planning to move towards common platforms. “We can share Videos on YouTube, Photos on Email and Picasa with the same login.
Plans to Open Orkut Mobile API
Orkut has a J2ME application, and now they’re in the process of opening up the Orkut API on Mobile. But there are some problems with the platform so it might take time to resolve this problem. Therefore Orkut declined to put a date to the plans to open up the mobile API.
