As a developer, you’ll soon be able to create social applications for the millions of global Orkut users. Orkut now supports OpenSocial, a common set of APIs, HTML, and JavaScript designed to let developers easily build social applications.
orkut offers an automatic transliteration option in the scrapbook that converts Roman characters to the Devanagiri characters used in Hindi. This lets you type your own language including Hindi words phonetically in English script and still have them appear in their correct alphabet. Note: this is not the same as translation — it’s the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. (more…)