What's been keeping us busy...
July 2011
June 2011
- Verify your business on Google Maps and get an Orkut Badge
- Popularity counter for your photos
May 2011
- New music themes
- Soccer themes for Orkut
April 2011
- Admin History to all Orkut communities
March 2011
- New look and feel on Orkut
- Launch of “like?” feature
- New full-screen photo viewer
- Badge for Orkut graduates
February 2011
- Orkut Box Office in Mumbai
- New look and feel coming soon
January 2011
- Orkut turns 7!
- Added Promo URLs, unique web addresses to all your promotions
- Special badge for users with a verified account
December 2010
- Edit your Orkut photos with Picnik, an online award-winning photo editor
- Public communities content became open to search engines
- Now you can comment on any update from your friends
- Save new groups as you send scraps to multiple people
- Limited edition badges on Orkut
November 2010
- Launch of Orkut badges
October 2010
- Finer control for your Groups of Friends: move friends to different groups or remove suggested groups
September 2010
- Launch of video chat in high-resolution
- A new sign-in page for Orkut
- Six new themes for Orkut and Chrome, designed by artists
- Your daily fortune now on the new Orkut
- A Google Chrome extension that translates posts on Orkut for you
August 2010
- Launch of Groups of Friends on Orkut
- Option to send scraps to multiple people and to post anything from the homepage
- A new search page with simpler filters
- New apps directory page
- New pages when you open any game or app on Orkut
- A new top bar and a new look for themes
July 2010
- Launch of private scraps on Orkut
- New button to see photos in full-screen
- New page for Orkut promote
- New page to manage your friends and groups of friends
June 2010
- New football themes launched
- Easier privacy settings
- Option to auto-share your YouTube activities on Orkut
May 2010
- New settings window and new links on the top of the page
- Several updates to the friend updates page
- Ability to add maps to scraps
- More themes launched
April 2010
- Updates to the Ask Friends app
March 2010
- Picasa plugin to share photos on Orkut directly from Picasa software
- New feature on chat: file transfer in Orkut and iGoogle
- New chat icons for voice and video calls
- Orkut application for Android devices
- New communities page
- Option to import photos from Picasa Web Albums to Orkut
- Embedding images in scraps
February 2010
- People Hopper app
- Themes on Orkut
- Photo slideshow available for IE users too
- Activity Stream updates when user selects a theme
- Photo tag updates on Activity Stream
January 2010
- Auto-Magic Groups
- Orkut turns 6!
- Orkut extension for Google Chrome
Previous years
- Some releases from 2009 and previous years can be found in the Orkut blog
