Orkut - the social network revolution

Call it a new virus; call it an obsession but the orkut fever is growing like wild fire.
I was introduced to it briefly in 2004, found it interesting back then and now am totally hooked to it. It still amazes me how Google comes up with such good products each and every time. I am sure that like any other obsession this too would die out in a while but am giving it all the attention I can and it’s hogging all the lime light.

The best thing I liked about orkut is that its very user friendly. I do agree there are other socializing networks in the market that are equally good, but the fact that it’s a Google product makes me biased towards it.
Yes! I am a big fan of Google and like the fact that they keep enhancing their products and coming up with more featured time and again in each of their product.
The same thing holds true with orkut too, it has instant scrap reply feature, friends map feature, mutual friend’s lists and the list goes on and on.



Created by Orkut Büyükkökten an employee of Google Inc. (it’s named after him), it started as one more of the then existing social network service like Friendster and MySpace.

If you want to get an estimate of the popularity of the site let me throw some figures at you. Launched in Jan 2004 by the end of July 2004 it had surpassed 1,000,000 members and the latest figure obtained in December 6th 2006 stands at 35.2 million.

Of course every good creation has its own cons and so does orkut. To name a few, there are fake ids, hate groups and obscenity.
But hey, looking at the positive side of it, it has indeed swept the social networking circuit, and its here to stay.

So folks enjoy the biggest thing in e-social networking today and keep scrapping.

Welcome Dada!!

So after a sabbatical of 6 months I am back to what I do decent enough, blogging J
Would start off by writing about a sport in which I take keen interest. Yeah, it’s too tough to guess right? Me being an Indian it had to be cricket..
So here’s to the player whom I respect..

A player whom the whole media had written off. A player who had reached the lowest point in his whole career the last year. Yes, no price for guessing as the title suggests a lot, I am talking about Saurav Ganguly.

He is one guy whom I have really liked as a player, as a leader and as sportsman. Had always felt that he was made a very bad victim of the shitty politics in the Indian sports arena.


I had always admired him as an opener and then the way he handled the young Indian team in the last world cup was praise worthy. But my respect for this man went up even further by looking at the treatment the BCCI had given to him. However bad a player’s form is on the field, if the player has been an ambassador leading the country to a prestigious tournament he doesn’t deserve such a rude treatment.

The just concluded tournament of SAF showed us one more facet of the current Indian team. They looked like a bunch of guys having no direction been led by a man who himself is a puppet in the hands of Greg Chappel.(Yeah, I am talking about Dravid)

Dravid is a great batsman, one of the best in the world, but a leader?? Nah, I would prefer someone more aggressive.

There were a few successful knocks in the tour, with centuries by Jaffer and Laxman respectively, but the man who was on a comeback trial to the team couldn’t have done better. He topped the batting average in the three test series. And that apart, I saw a different Ganguly this time. His stance, his posture, everything about him reflected a man with a mission. He had the fire in his eyes and was surely looking like the old Bengal tiger that we have all known.
And of course we all know that he is a great player, the figures speaks for itself, he has debuted in 1996 in the ODI’s and has already crossed 10K runs, a true genius.

The board has come out with the list or players for the ODI tour in WI and the 30 probable’s list for the world cup and as expected one name is certainly there. ‘Saurav Ganguly’
So with the new attitude and determination I am sure this time he is here to stay and psst…It would be fun to have a look at the best opening pair again in the ODI’s (sachin and saurav)
So here’s Kudos to dada and welcome back to the Indian side.

Roar! The Bengal tiger