Orkut? The small green fella who wished he could fly? Nonono. Orkut is Google’s own social network, which isn’t very big in most of the world, but is very big indeed in Brazil and India (which as anyone with a spot of geographical knowledge will tell you, means millions of users).
Anyway, it’s just gone mobile, at the logical address of m.orkut.com. Features include profiles, friend lists and updates, accepting and denying friend requests, and personal messaging. It doesn’t support the Communities forums – apparently one of the most popular features on Orkut – or videos though.
In the countries where Orkut is big – particularly India – going mobile is a big deal, since it opens the way to sign up people out in the countryside who don’t have regular access to a net-connected PC. However, Orkut will face competition from some of the mobile-only social networks who’ve also been targeting these ‘emerging’ markets.
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About Stuart Dredge
most of the time, I use my iPhone to access orkut and orkut not providing a regular orkut access while connecting from a mobile device is frustrating. Google should have provided one option for us to access it as a regular site than ‘only the mobile version’, when connected from a mobile device.