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Google Chrome OS All About it – Breaking News

Arpit Jacob — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:59:52 +0000

We all knew Google has been secretly work on an Operating System called the Google Chrome OS, Google has now officially announced the Google Chrome OS. The best part is they have open sourced the whole code. Could this be the operating system that everyone been waiting for? Not really here are a couple of reasons why, read about it after the Video.

What? How? Who? Etc about the Google Chrome OS in Brief

Will be Open Source.
Speed, Simplicity, and Security are the pillars of Chrome OS
Cloud based OS, which means all your data will be stored online not on the hardisk.
Here is the funny part it will be a paid ?
Support the latest Web Standards HTML 5 CSS 3.0 etc
Not meant to be your Primary OS.
Can be run in a Virtual Machine.
Main targets are netbooks, since the use of netbooks have been growing at an exponential rate.
7 Second boot time. Everything is flash-memory-based–no hard drive.
Will run only web applications no native applications.
Chrome OS looks very much like Chrome browser

Here is a video of a prototype of the Chrome OS

What is the Google Chrome OS Video In Brief?

Watch this video which explains it in brief. After the video I have listed out all the technical details.

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Google Updater Service Uninstall, Disable Or Configure The Complete Guide

Arpit Jacob — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:03 +0000

If you read my previous post about uninstalling Google Gears, the main reason why I wanted to uninstall Google Gears, was because Google Update would fire up every 30 mins to check for for an update and this got really annoying, Google Update does this silently in the background without your knowledge, I been using a firewall monitoring application called Little Snitch to see which programs connect to the internet on my Mac, unlike most programs which check for an update every time the program is launched, Google updater will check every half hour, also there is no option to configure or disable the updater. I wonder if the Google Updater Service was doing more than just checking for an update. Conspiracy theories aside, googling around showed me that I wasn’t the only one facing this problem, similar to uninstalling Google Gears on the Mac, there was no straight forward way to get rid or to configure the Updater , this goes both for Windows and the Mac OS X.

First of all lets see how Google updater gets install, this will help in preventing you from getting the update service running in the background. If you are using any of the Google prodcuts, like Google Desktop, Google gears, Google Talk, Google Pack and Google Earth the updater gets installed and starts running in the background silently.

Scroll down if you are looking for the Mac OS X Guide

Google Updater Service on Windows 7, Vista & XP

For people using windows you can hit the CNTRL + ALT + DEL keys to bring up the task manager to see if the Google Update program is running in the background or not.

Now there are a couple of things you might want to do, completely get rid of the Google update which can cause so programs to malfunction or Configure google updater to check the internet at a specified time.

Completly Get rid Of Google Updater Service.

There are a couple of different way you can remove the Google Updater. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.

Uninstall from the Start Menu

Go to the Start menu > Programs > Google Updater > Uninstall Google Updater.
Restart your computer after you uninstall.

Uninstall from the Control Panel

Click the Start menu on your computer taskbar.
Select Control Panel.
Double-click Add or Remove Programs (on XP) or Programs and Features (on Vista).
Select Google Updater in the list of programs.
Click Remove.
Restart your computer after you uninstall.

Uninstall from the command line (advanced)

Click the Start menu on your computer taskbar.
Select Run.
Enter cmd to open a command prompt.
Type cd C:\Program Files\Google\Google Updater to change directories.
Type GoogleUpdater.exe -uninstall to uninstall.
Restart your computer after you uninstall.

If the Above Methods don’t work you can try the following options.
Disabling the Google Updater from startup List

Click on Start Button then in the Run box, type in msconfig in the Open field and click OK or press the Enter key.
The System Configuration Utility will open up. On the top you’ll a couple of tabs, select the Startup tab. Go down to the GoogleUpdate startup item and deselect it.
Restart the computer.

Disabling the Google Updater service

Click on Start Button then in the Run box, type in services.msc in the Open field and click OK or press the Enter key.
You will see a huge list of Services, scroll down to find the GoogleUpdate Service. Double click on it to open the Properties box (or right click and select Properties). The Startup Type drop-down will list three options, select Disabled.
Click on Apply and OK.

Customizing the Updater: Software update preferences

The Google Updater lets you choose if and how you’re notified about updates for software you’ve installed through Google Pack. To set your preferences for Pack software updates, follow these steps:

Go to the Start menu > Programs > Google Updater > Google Updater.
Click the Preferences tab.
Click Advanced options.
In the ‘Updates’ section, select one of the following options:
- ‘Automatically update software’: The Updater will silently keep your software up-to-date without any prompts or notifications. Occasionally, an issue may need your attention, in which case you’ll be notified.
- ‘Let me check for updates myself’: The Updater won’t send you any update notifcations and your software won’t be updated automatically. To see a list of available updates, click the Updates tab at any time.
Once you’ve made your selection, click Save Preferences.

Configure Google Update using Registry.

If your operating doesn’t include a policy editor (Windows XP Home, Windows Vista Home), edit the Registry directly. Just create the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update

and add two DWORD values:

AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes – auto-update check interval (for example: 1440 to check for updates once a day)

DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue – 1, if you want to disable the auto-updater; 0, if you want to enable it.

Configure Google Update using the Group Policy.

Change the default update check period to once per week or disable it.
Step 1. Download the Administrative Template provided by Google Google Updater Group Policy Template

Step 2. Launch Group Policy Editor

Navigate to Start > Run: gpedit.msc

Step 3. Importing Google Update ADM template.

Navigate to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates
Right-click Administrative Templates, and select Add/Remove Templates
Google Updater Configure Group Policy
Add the GoogleUpdate.adm template via the dialog.
Once complete, a Google folder will appear under ‘Administrative Templates’ if it’s not there already.

Step 4. Set the update check period.

Navigate to Administrative Templates > Google > Google Update > Preferences.
Google Updater Configure Group Policy
Modify the Auto-update check period override property as shown or mark is a Disabled.
Google Updater Configure Group Policy

If you want Disable Individual Google products. The Example below uses Google Chrome auto-updates as an Example.

Follow steps 1 and 2 in the first example if you haven’t imported the GoogleUpdate.adm template. Change the update policy override for Google Chrome:

Navigate to Administrative Templates > Google > Google Update > Applications > Google Chrome.
Disable Google Chrome
Modify the Update policy override property as shown.
Disable Google Chrome

Mac OS X GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent and GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon

Remove GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon from the Mac OS X

Uninstall any Google programs you currently have installed on your computer.
Failing to uninstall your Google applications may cause these applications to work improperly and, in many cases, Google Software Update will be reinstalled after a few hours.
Open a Terminal window by going to Applications > Utilities in Finder.
Google Software Update can be uninstalled for a specific user or for your whole system. Paste one of the following commands in Terminal:
- Uninstall for a specific user:Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/install.py –uninstall
- Uninstall for the whole system: (needs root access)sudo /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/install.py –uninstall
After pasting the command, press Enter on your keyboard.

Google Software Update should now be uninstalled

Configure Google Updater for the Mac OS X

Update Frequency
To change how frequently Google Software Update checks for updates, execute the following in the Terminal application:

$ defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval

where is the elapsed time in seconds between update checks.

To disable Google Software Update from checking for updates, execute the following in the Terminal application:

$ defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0

Manual Updates
Google Software Update also provides a way to manually update all Google software on a user’s Mac. Here’s how:

In Finder, select Go > Go to Folder.
In the window that appears, enter one of the following locations. It’s expected that one of these folders won’t be found:
- /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/
- ~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/
In the folder that opens, double click the file named ‘CheckForUpdatesNow.command’.

Terminal will open to run the file. When you see the message ‘[Process completed]‘ you can close Terminal. Once this is done, your Google programs will be up to date.

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Uninstall Google Gears From Mac OS X, Windows, Linux

Arpit Jacob — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:23:44 +0000

I been playing around with Fluid for Mac, its similar to the Prism. If you don’t know what I am talking about, basically PRISM and FLUID let you run any web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Google Reader etc in a separate instance of a browser, so that you can launch them like desktop Icons.

Fluid Apps

I installed google gears to enable offline browsing while using gmail, and google reader. After a while I decided to get rid of it since Little Snitch (a firewall application) told me that Google kept trying to connect every 30 minutes to the internet to check for an update, I found this extremely annoying and completely unnecessary. What was more annoying was that I couldn’t find a way to uninstall it. On a mac uninstalling is pretty straight forward just drag and drop the application on to the trash can. In google gears case it wasn’t installed as an application, and after hunting around I found that the only way to uninstall it is to run a command in terminal. below are the instructions.

First Quit any fluid application including Safari.
In Finder, open your Applications folder.
Open the folder named Utilities.
Open Terminal. alternative is to type Terminal directly in Spotlight
In Terminal, enter the following command (including the quotes): ‘/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Gears.plugin/Contents/Resources/uninstall.command’
Press Enter.
Enter your password when prompted.

For instructions on how to uninstall Google Gears for various other Operating systems.

Windows XP or Vista

Click the Start menu on your computer taskbar.
Select Control Panel.
Double-click Add or Remove Programs (on XP) or Programs and Features (on Vista).
Select Google Gears in the list of programs.
Click the Remove button.

If you’ve installed Google Chrome, Gears is installed by default. To uninstall Gears for Google Chrome, you’ll need to uninstall Google Chrome.

Linux

Open Firefox.
Click the Tools menu.
Select Extensions (Firefox 1) or Add-ons (Firefox 2 or later).
Select Google Gears in the list of programs.
Click Uninstall.
Restart Firefox.

Mac OS X

Open Firefox.
Click the Tools menu.
Select Extensions (Firefox 1) or Add-ons (Firefox 2 or later).
Select Google Gears in the list of programs.
Click Uninstall.
Restart Firefox.

Windows Mobile 5.0 or 6.0

Select Settings.
If present, select the System tab.
Select Remove Programs.
Select Google Gears from the list.
Click Remove.
Restart your device.

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Facebook Chat, Google Gtalk Intergration Coming Soon

Arpit Jacob — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:48:44 +0000

A year back Facebook had announced that they were building a XMPP interface for Facebook Chat. Which is the same protocol that Google has used to build Google Gtalk, Google’s popular Instant messaging service. Process One’s bot IMTrends has detected that Facebook has implemented the Jabber/XMPP Protocol.

So what is XMPP? XMPP formerly called Jabber, is a messaging protocol based on XML. The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open technology for real-time communication, which powers a wide range of applications including instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data. Unlike most instant messaging protocols, XMPP is an open standard. Like e-mail, it is an open system where anyone who has a domain name and a suitable Internet connection can run their own XMPP server and talk to users on other servers. The standard server implementations and many clients are also free and open source software.

This is big new this means you’ll be able to chat with Gmail and Google users. This means Google users will be able to interact with Facebook users using the same IM Chat clients. Which means you’ll be soon able to use Facebook chat on any of your favorite instant messaging desktop or web based clients.

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Goog and Live 411

Arpit Jacob — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:51:14 +0000

Both Google and Windows Live has released their own 411 service. If you don’t know what a 411 service please click HERE. There are demos for both Live 411 and Google 411. However, I think that Google 411 is better. Once again, like all other Google services, it is very easy to use. Whereas, with Live 411, you are asked to reply to what seems like a zillion questions. Both services are free to use.

Google 411 number is 1-800-GOOG-411 or 1-800-466-4411

Live Search 411 number is 1-800-CALL-411 or 1-800-2255411

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OpenSocial, OpenBox, OpenMedia What the Hells Going On?

Arpit Jacob — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:56:23 +0000

A few days back google announced OpenSocial, its so called open API for social networks. Box.Net today annouced the launch of OpenBox, a platform for developers to integrate their web applications into Box.net. And Bebo announced Open Media platform, a way for media brands to build a presence in the community with music and video content.

Readwriteweb author Marshall Kirkpatrick rightly questions is Google Exercising Leadership or Control? I happen to think this is all about gaining control. Google, knew very well that they were incapable of creating a social-network that would become as big as MySpace or Facebook which is evident from the failure of Orkut which has mostly been dominated by Brazilians and Indians(take a look at the public stats page you need to be signed into Orkut to view it). The growth of facebook over the past months has show how opening up a platform to developers, can have a exponential/big impact on on how users use their services.

And suddenly we have API coming up every where. The fact is most of these API aren’t really open and are mostly tied up to their own platform or are severely restricted in terms of usage.

How about the recent announcement about Android

How Google Android Routes Around Java Restrictions.

Today Google released the Android code and I took a serious look at its internals… and found the solution for the licensing problem. Itâ€™s called Dalvik and itâ€™s the new name of Sunâ€™s worst nightmares.

Dalvik is a virtual machine, just like Javaâ€™s or .NETâ€™s.. but itâ€™s Googleâ€™s own and theyâ€™re making it open source without having to ask permission to anyone (well, for now, in the future expect a shit-load of IP-related lawsuits on this, especially since Sun and Microsoft signed a cross-IP licensing agreement on exactly such virtual machines technologies years ago… but donâ€™t forget IBM who has been writing emulation code for mainframes since the beginning of time).

OpenSource Fighting against OpenSource? I guess the GPL wasn’t open enough. Proof that GPL is not a solution for all opensource projects especially for commercial solutions. Google was smart enough to realise not many would invest or touch Android if it was released under a GPL licence. Heck they even have a FAQ about this. Why are you releasing the code under the Apache Software License instead of GPLv2?

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Don’t Put All Your Eggs In The Google Basket

Arpit Jacob — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:14:09 +0000

When you blog do you blog for your readers or do you blog for Search Engines. I have noticed a lot of people who try to cram in as many keywords as possible into the title and content. Even I have done this when I first started blogging. We know that a number of people and sites have been penalised by Google for example JohnChow, text-link-ads etc for selling paid links. Quite recently a very popular and large website masternewmedia has been penalised by Google for doing paid links. This site is a premium Google Adsense Publisher and also a PR 7 blog.

A few snippets from the author’s site.

For some reason, yet unknown to us, Google has actually penalized all of my web pages, to the point that they could not be found any more for any of the terms for which they were so highly ranked until a few days ago. This is not only disaster from a standard web publisher viewpoint, but it is triple tragedy because the very visitors coming from Google, and not out of their own bookmarks or of a friend recommending them, are the very ones that make my site sustainable.

And obviously, this is so assuming these other sites also don’t get banned or penalized by Google. I am not trying to be paranoid. Fact is that there is a number of posts and articles out there that suggests in fact, that if you are linked by sites that are banned or penalized then your site as well may be penalized itself. While the logic of this is all to be understood, I link first and foremost my own other sites! Therefore it goes without even thinking that all of my sites may risk being penalized if I don’t do everything I can to put myself in safe waters.

So do you depend solely on Google for your Income? People like JohnChow still survived, because they managed to build relationships with their readers.

Remember Readership, Relationships, and Responsibility are more important than Google Juice. Google after all is just a company, they personally don’t care what happens to you. I am not trying to justify paid links (I myself took them down a month back) I am just telling a hard fact.

Source: Labnol

Google Rolls Out Site Authentication For Adsense

Arpit Jacob — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:23:08 +0000

Google now allows you to put adsense on your private forums and website which are accessible only by logging in.

We’ve recently launched a new feature called Site Authentication to take care of this problem. Using Site Authentication, you can give our crawler access to your login-protected pages by passing it information to log into your site. For example, let’s say your news site has a premium content area, with articles that only paying members can access. To get ads on those pages, you can use Site Authentication to provide our crawler with a test username and password. It’s an easy process that starts just by logging into your AdSense account and finding the ‘Site Authentication’ link under the ‘AdSense Setup’ tab. Once you’ve supplied us with a username, password, and a few other details, all you have to do is verify that you own the site through Google Sitemaps.

They haven’t rolled this out to everyone yet.

Source: Google Adsense Blog

Move From Blogger To Wordpress and Maintain Permalinks And Traffic

Arpit Jacob — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:26:41 +0000

While moving from blogger to Wordpress is dead easy using the inbuilt blogger importer tool in Wordpress, there is one dilemma/problem that a lot of people face, after importing from blogger, Wordpress does not maintain the Permalinks(post slugs) i.e. the URL of the blog posts. I did a bit of hunting around and I found a solution it a really simple hack thanks to David Pascoe who provided the solution to this problem. I have tested this out and it works perfectly, you can move from blogger to Wordpress and maintain your post URL or Permalinks (Post Slugs), hence maintaining your Google Search Traffic and Page rank without losing out on any Traffic. It took me less than 15 minutes to go through the whole process. (But It might take you longer if your new to WordPress)

Reasons to move from Blogger.

Cutting edge and the very best blogging Software. Comparing Blogger and WordPress, Wordpress beats Blogger hands down.
Huge Community Which means Thousands of free cool Themes and Templates and Plugins.
Easier blogging, better commenting system, spam fighting etc etc.

Draw Backs of Moving from Blogger to Wordpress.

Importing from Blogger to Wordpress doesn’t import your blogger hosted pictures, they’ll still remain on Blogger, they’ll be visible for sometime but since Blogger doesn’t allow hot-linking you won’t seen them after sometime (Read about it here from the official Google FAQ), so you’ll need to move them maually to your webhost or to some photo hosting service. Luckily for most people this is not a big problem since most bloggers host their images on Flickr or Photobucket. For the more Geeky you can check out this Plugin or this shell command to move your pictures to your own domain.

I thought I would write a step-by-step tutorial since a lot of other people/bloggers will find this extremely useful. I am using kiruba.com as an example.

I am assuming a few things here.

You know how to run and install Wordpress. (Here are some Step-by-Step Guides to install Wordpress on your Local computer Or To Install it on your Webhost Look at the Installation Section)
You are using Blogger Beta (I guess by now everyone has been forced to migrate to the new blogger Beta by Google)
You are hosted on your own domain like kiruba.com (for people trying to move from http://yourblog.blogspot.com I have posted extra steps you need to follow at the end)

How To move from Blogger To Wordpress and Maintain your URL/Permalinks/post-slugs and Traffic

1. Install a Temporary Wordpress Installation.

The first step is to Install a temporary Wordpress installation either on your local Computer on in a temporary directory on your web host. The reason why we are installing WordPress on a temporary location is that, since we need to get all the posts from kiruba.com to WordPress then, delete the blogger installation, then Install a fresh Wordpress Installation on kiruba.com and then put back all the Posts. We will use this temporary Wordpress installation to import all your blog posts and comments and to test and see if all your blog posts and original Permalinks or URL’s are being maintained. After Installing WordPress Go To Manage Posts and Pages and Delete the dummy Hello world Post and the About us page these get created automatically when you first install WordPress. Learning how to install and enableing Permalinks is the only difficult part here, the rest is extremely easy.

Important Note: If you are installing Wordpress on your local machine make sure you can use Permalinks. The step-by-step tutorial to install WordPress that I provided above shows you how to enable Permalinks it is given at the very last under the notes section.

2. Modify the Blogger Importer.

Don’t worry there is nothing much to do just download this file [download#4#nohits] and replace it with the original file located at wordpress/wp-admin/import/blogger.php

For the more technically inclined here are the changes that I made to the Blogger.php File thanks to David Pascoe

Open the file WordPress/wp-admin/import/blogger.php and look for the line containing the string wp_insert_post – at around line 520. Insert these 2 lines after the call to wp_insert_post; Note: The second and third line need to be in one single Line I had to break into two lines to fit it in.


preg_match("/([^/]+).html$/", $entry->old_permalink ,$matches);
$wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET post_name =
'" . $matches[1] . "' WHERE ID = '$post_id'");

3. Import All the Post and Comments From Blogger to Wordpress Using the Importer.

Go to Mange > Import > Blogger

You’ll be presented with a option to Authorize the Importing process Click Authorize

You’ll be asked to Enter your Google User Name and Password.

After which you need to Click the Grant Access Button.

You’ll be shown a list of all the blogs you own on blogger and the number of posts and comments. Click the blog that you want to import.

Once you click the import button you’ll see a progress Bar as the comments and Posts get imported. Once its Done the Text in the Button gets changed to Set Authors Click this.

You will See your blogger username (if you have multiple authors you see them too) select Admin(This is the default Wordpress user) from the drop down list and click save changes.

That’s it your done your done with importing your blog Posts. yay

4. Changing Your URL (Permalinks or Post slugs) to Maintain Your Google Juice and Page Rank

Ok here’s the part you’ve been waiting for its pretty easy go to Options > Permalinks

Change the selection from Default to Custom

Enter the Following text in the Custom Structure Textbox to


/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

Note: If you’ve installed Wordpress on your local system computer using Xampp like I mentioned above you’ll need to enable Permalinks. The step-by-step tutorial to install WordPress that I provided above shows you how to enable Permalinks under Xampp it is given at the very last under the notes section. After you’ve enabled it you’ll need enter


/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

instead of the text I have provided above.

Your done.

5. Checking Your URLs and Permalinks

Once your done just check your URLs to see if they are the same. The parts Highlighted in Bold are the ones you need to check

Original URL:


http://clazh.blogspot.com/2006/10/microsoft-and-apple-together.html

URL after Importing:


http://localhost/kirbs/index.php/2006/10/microsoft-and-apple-together.html

Move Everything To Fresh WordPress Installation

Once you are satisfied with everything, go to your temporary WordPress Installation Manage > Export Click the Download Export File. Download and save the XML file.

Delete your Blogger Installation and files Except your Image Directory i.e. if you have one.

Install a Fresh Copy Of Wordpress in your Original Blog Location Example if your Blog was at kiruba.com then you need to install WordPress in the root if it was at kiruba/blog then you need to install WordPress in a directory called blog.

Import The XML file which you saved before Mange > Import > WordPress Browse and upload the file.

Select Admin from the Drop Down Box and press submit.

Repeat Step 4 to Switch on Permalinks that’s it your done do a Google search for any of your posts if your posts turns up that means you migrated to WordPress successfully while maintaining your Permalinks or URLs.

Extra Steps for Redirecting Your Traffic For Bloggers Moving From A BlogSpot Subdomain.

There are two ways to go about this. One is the quick and dirty way which is also a bit difficult the other is the long way which is the easiest.

The slow and easy way to move from a blogspot Subdomain.

I would recommend you to follow this rather than the quick and dirty way.

Here’s what you need to do.

Buy your own domain.
Use that Custom Domain Option. See this Step-by-Step Guide on configuring Custom Domains.
Your original Blog*Spot address will automatically forward to your new domain. That way, any existing links or bookmarks and search traffic to your site will still work.
Wait for 5-6 months for all search engines to update their data and links to your new site.
Follow the Steps I have outlined above.

The Quick and Dirty way to move from a blogspot Subdomain.

I do not recommend this. Do this only if you are really eager and want to move quickly. See this guide here

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A Terrorist’s Profile On Orkut

Arpit Jacob — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:04:05 +0000

Orkut is extremely popular in India. Its the MySpace for Indians. Sabeel Ahmed a terrorist (and I am ashamed to say an Indian National) who was arrested by the Australian police recently has a profile on Orkut, I was curious so I went to his profile to have a glance, his ScrapBook (Comments Section) is filled with scraps from people(Indians) heaping abuse on him. According to the mutiny the authorities are looking into his friends list and Orkut activity. I don’t use Orkut much, its more like I am forced to use it since a huge number of my friends are there on it. I suddenly realized that Orkut is much bigger than what I had thought it to be. I used to think of it as a silly social networks for Indians. According to Alexa orkut is the second most popular site for Indians beating even Google Search WOW.