End of a Social Networking site: Orkut!

Orkut is a social networking site, developed by Google employee Orkut Buyukotten and is owned and operated by Google. It has been helping us to connect us with new friends and to maintain our existing relationships for a decade. Since it launched in January 24, 2004, it has grown its popularity continuously. But after launching Google+, they had stopped thinking about orkut. Now Google is trying to compete with social networking giant Facebook and Twitter (micro blogging site) with Google+. So they finally announced on June 30, 2014 that Orkut will officially shut down its services from September 30, 2014. Until then we can use the services.

Our experience with orkut.

Orkut came with the full pack of features. Users had option to add video to their profile from either YouTube or Google Video, polls for polling a community users, option to integrate Gtalk (messenger from Google) and many more. Not like facebook, orkut has fully customisable environment. Users had option to change the look of entire profile by using themes. People customize their theme depending on their mood, personality or choice.
I remembered the craze of orkut, when I was in High School. It was so popular in teenager that we used to arrange discussion on orkut for more than an hour after school. At that time we had a community on orkut, we used to polls for best boy, teacher or girls of the school on it.And Whenever we wanted to know about important notice of school, we used to check orkut rather calling in school or checking out notice board. Apart from all these we had lot of fun on orkut; I am really going to miss orkut.
Apart from many controversies and legal issues, orkut had successfully served us for a decade. It helped shape life online before people really knew what “social networking” was. For all these I would thank and appreciate Google and its creator Orkut Buyukotten.

If you are an orkut user and want to save your Orkut Photos, Scrap, Community data; click on: Save my orkut data. (Available till September 30, 2014)

Time for Charity, Help Wikipedia.

When it comes to learning on internet the first and most thing comes in mind is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia and it runs #5 website in the world with a small group of 150 staffs. It serves 450 million users and has image like other top web sites. Quite amazing!

 Working and Management. Most of the web sites runs by displaying ads on their web sites but we never finds any ads on Wikipedia. How do they manage to runs this organization? The question always strikes in mind. Does it runs by any billionaire, any Government organization? No, It runs on donation averaging about Rs.1500. We know that Rs.1500 is nothing in today world. But it seems they need more to do better.

Screenshot of Wikipedia.org asking for donation (Top Yellow Banner).

 Its time to returns back. We always get quality content from Wikipedia at no cost and no ads. If you still want it to be ad free.DONATE


 They don’t ask for too much.

Must know about Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser that uses the WebKit Layout engine. It was first released as the beta version for windows platform on September 2, 2008, and stable public releases on December 11, 2008. According to StatCounter, Within five years from its released in February 2008, it acquires 37% worldwide usage share of web browser making it the most widely used web browser in the world.

10 Shortcuts for Google Chrome

[Ctrl]+L or [Alt]+D	Highligth the URL
[Alt]+F or [Alt]+E	Opens wrench menu, which lets you customize and control settings in Chrome
[Ctrl]+K or [Ctrl]+E	Places a '?' in the address bar. Type a search term after the question mark to perform a search using your default search engine.
[Ctrl]+G or F3	Finds the next match for your input in the find bar
[Shift]+Esc	Opens the Task Manager
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+M	Switch between multiple users
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+B	Toggles the bookmarks bar on and off
[Alt]+Click on link	Downloads the target of the link
F6	Switches focus to the next keyboard accessible pane

History of Internet.

Everything has a start. The Internet, as we know it today, also had a very humble but interesting beginning.

J C R Licklider of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) envisioned the Internet as far back as August 1962 in a series of memos written by him that talked about social interactions that could be enabled through networking, a concept that he termed his “Galactic Network”.

As a thought, the concept is working now also. The concept was that the entire computer across the planet would be interconnected and by this, everyone could quickly access data and programs from any ‘site’. J C R Licklider joined DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) October 1962 and was its first research head. In a due course at DARPA, he convinced his successors, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept.

In late 1966, MIT researcher Lawrence G Roberts went to DARPA to develop the computer network concept and quickly put together his plan for the “ARPANET” (Advanced Research Project Agency Network related to the US Department of Defence) publishing it in 1967. Roberts presented his paper at a conference, where, incidentally, Donald Davies and Roger Scantlebury of NPL (National Physical Laboratory) from the UK presented a paper on a packet network concept.

Earlier during his research, Leonard Kleinrock at MIT convinced Roberts of the feasibility of using packet rather than circuits to transfer data, which, by itself was a major leap forward in the area of computer networking. To prove this, Roberts, with Thomas Merrill in 1965, connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32 computer in California using an extremely low-speed dial-up telephone line creating the first wide-area computer network ever built.