orkut.co.in Google Introduces Indian Edition of Orkut with Themes

*www.labnol.org/wp/images/2008/05/orkut-india-themes.jpg

Some updates for Orkut - the most popular social networking site in India.

Sasidhar informs that Google has officially launched the Indian edition of Orkut while Thilak discovers themes inside his Orkut account. You may not see them as Orkut themes are not enabled for everyone yet.
The orkut.com site now redirects you to orkut.co.in if you visit this website from India. Orkut.in however remains a parked domain serving AdSense ads.

Source : *www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/google-launches-orkut-india-edition-with-themes/3423/

I don't have the option in my account

Where can I find these themes ???

hmm..havent got any such options.

Kachra - specially optimized for Indians!

Cool

I see themes

Instead of Orkut.com, type in orkut.co.in and on top (rt side) you can see it.

din said:
Cool

I see themes

Instead of Orkut.com, type in orkut.co.in and on top (rt side) you can see it.

It's only available to certain users.. it will take time before everyone is able to access it.

Here is mine

Click on the thumbnail for enlarged view

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Click here if you can't see the thumbnail image above.

I don't see for mine yet

Logged into my account after a few weeks, but i dont see any changes. Its just the same old boring social networking site.

phreak0ut and nvidia

Tried orkut.co.in instead of orkut.com ?

^^Yeah.. Even if i type .com, it redirects me to .co.in
Maybe its exclusive to orkut lovers and not orkut haters

i tried www.orkut.co.in but no option of themes yet for me :-|

^LOL

It is available to only certain users yet

Orkut.com will redirect to orkut.co.in for Indian Users

I dont really care, since I dont use orkut anymore. My account is still there, but since it was full of spam, and mass scrapping, I just abandoned it at that.

Nothing new in my account too.

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me 2.... nthng new.... but still..... i lk that blue theme....

boring.
there should be complete customization of home page/profile page like in myspace

also when i see din's profile... its the same old theme.

trying orkut.co.in insd of orkut.com i get redirctd to orkut.com

well.. my home page's

Code:

*www.orkut.co.in/Home.aspx

... But im not gettin the themes..

There are 12 themes now. 4 are available, rest - it shows coming soon !

^^correct .. i have it too

Cant remember when i last login to my account, ok i will check my account tomorrow. BTW, thanks for the news

Nothing in here

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dheeraj_kumar said:
I dont really care, since I dont use orkut anymore. My account is still there, but since it was full of spam, and mass scrapping, I just abandoned it at that.

newsettings of orkutallows youto stop spams n mass scrapping
go n check dude...these changeswere activated long time back

Now they must allow customization of webpages.

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sam_1710 said:
well.. my home page's

Code:

*www.orkut.co.in/Home.aspx

... But im not gettin the themes..

same with me

mind021 said:
newsettings of orkutallows youto stop spams n mass scrapping
go n check dude...these changeswere activated long time back

Which setting to disallow mass scrap ?

I see allow scrap from friends only, already set that - by that most spam will be avoided, thats good.

For me too....!!
I got 4 themes to use....!

and am using one already

But my friend still unable to get this option

Wow .. orkut just went to intolerably pathetic from tolerably pathetic .
fb is better for keeping in touch. I wish Orkut was not part of Google.

Everytime changes happen in Orkut, they take time to effect to all users. Talk about any feature

1. Skin Change last time
2. The User Title Option
3. And now this Theme thing

Din,have u joined some community that claims to use diff. themes?

No, I didn't join any such community. Why ?

Hmm, I'll try it. I log in once in a month though, I'll try it later.

may be I am wrong,

Theme Tab only available now if user use gmail A/C to log in orkut....just discovered.

dissel said:
may be I am wrong,

Theme Tab only available now if user use gmail A/C to log in orkut....just discovered.

You are wrong. I login using yahoo a/c & theme tab is visible whereas it's absent in my friend a/c who uses gmail.
The orkut is taking time to upgrade user's a/c.

din said:
No, I didn't join any such community. Why ?

No,just asking.coz i get a lot of scraps(forwarded by others) like:

HEY..NEW DEEPIKA PADUKONE's THEME RELEASED!!
Its Simple To do This...

Check this Community Description and enjoy:

Click Here To Get

There r lotz More tHemes In that Community..like Shahrukh's Theme..Katrina kaif's Themes..etc..just Check De EVENTS..do..reply.!!

^^Better stay away from such communities and scripts. They unknowingly add lots of crap communities to your profile. My friend is a victim of such script.

me too hav no themes option

but some of my frnds hav........dat winter theme looks cool.

@trublu: I once ran such a script and it took alot of time to finish so i canceled it in between and when i came back i had joined 53 crap communities automatically so better stay away from them........

I have got the option..it's displayed as change theme at the top right hand corner before your email address. Cool themes.

No themes here

hmm i have that option ........ nice change

C

Not yet enabled for me too

guys check this site out.........
*www.orkutplus.org/2008/05/hack-enjoy-10-orkut-themes-before-they.html

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^^ this is all fakes coz it's werid that it only available for some... after all, i have an ever changing ip and still, i don't get any damn theme! just check your scrap book there will be a spam message like this... hey cool ____ theme released check it out (followed by a preview) and a link to join a community... It is just like the scrap flooder that made us join communities that we don't even know!

^^^dude even i thought this.....and you might have read in my earlier post telling about same to trublu but this is for real....i've tried it and it works...i can post a screenshot if you like

H

^^ well, you can tell me how to get it! and send a snapshot or giv me ur gtalk id now...

orkut themes..

*www.imagehost.ro/thumbnail.php/3118023348416889403a5.JPG

neelu09 said:
guys check this site out.........
*www.orkutplus.org/2008/05/hack-enjoy-10-orkut-themes-before-they.html

Hmm! Nice.

Checked script source and they seem to be OK! without any malicious code

H

offtopic : +1 with Rockstar's signature.... REMOVE RED FONT

^^^^so wat do you want in screen shot ....i mean what will convince you its real

i have a option for themes in my edit profile option

*img92.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cxcsq8.png

H

okay, nw im using greasemonkey to browse orkut with themes! can tweak the imagefiles to get my own theme!

I can see the themes. But they are not all that great to be honest.

H

Okay Mystery solved......
it is in your edit profile with a tag theme or for the lazy ones here is the link for changing the theme... and this is available for all orkut users...
*www.orkut.co.in/EditSkin.aspx
MODS CLOSE THE THREAD>>>>>>

hari_sanker_r said:
Okay Mystery solved......
it is in your edit profile with a tag theme or for the lazy ones here is the link for changing the theme... and this is available for all orkut users...
*www.orkut.co.in/EditSkin.aspx
MODS CLOSE THE THREAD>>>>>>

NO... this isn't correct. did you test it?

pls don't claim anything absurd.. which you haven't tested or you don't know...

below is the error message after going through this url,

*img158.imageshack.us/img158/2271/123zg8.th.png

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Guys,

Have patience... Orkut (Google) never apply any change to all the users at a time..

They make slow update and apply new things to all users in batches... or rather say they go for safe way to implement things..

It can also be said for boosting that they have such a huge user base.. that for applying any new change, it takes them many days ... lol...

[Update]
Orkut is Just Testing this feature. This time the choose Indian users for the Test. If this is found successful it would be enabled Site wide to all users of world.

And for all choose who are dying to *try* this new feature. Please create a new account and see yourself.
Orkut themes are there in all new accounts. Just make sure your country is set to INDIA.

Again some new feature to add pic( namely...photos of her/him/me), check it out guys...
But there is no upload button

While using opera, I could'nt access the themes, but when I opened it in IE suddenly I noticed that there was a change theme option on the top left of my orkut page !

And by the way, my country is set to England, but I surf from India. Maybe they understand that we are Indians from our IP addresses.

GeekyBoy said:
While using opera, I could'nt access the themes, but when I opened it in IE suddenly I noticed that there was a change theme option on the top left of my orkut page !

I was able to see the theme options in my Opera 9.27.

H

Guys, i personally tested it... here is the link to my profile
*www.orkut.co.in/Profile.aspx?uid=18357694402861182141
and near your e-mail id, a new link will come "get this theme" just clickit, for your convenience, i removed the referal id. also look in your edit profile page...

Thanks for the news. Now I have the option of "change theme" in the homepage.

C

It is now activated on my profile too (finally). It seems i couldnt see the change theme option because i had selected low bandwidth in Orkut settings.

Cool G5 said:
Again some new feature to add pic( namely...photos of her/him/me), check it out guys...
But there is no upload button

u mean the photos of me button........head to *www.orkutplus.org/2008/06/now-add-tags-to-your-photos-on-orkut.html

S

i dont have themes option

R

Yes the themes are really cool indeed. However a lot of themes to come yet. We will wait for the best to happen. The themes being cool occupies lots of bandwidth which is not acceptable for limited and slow users. Moreover Facebook is providing online booking for restraunts Orkut is still behind.

swordfish said:
i dont have themes option

pls go into the acc which has the theme and click the option "get the theme"

I have disabled themes & apps in my account.
Orkut is good without them.