with its "falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous" Internet presence. We're all becoming our own PR agents thanks to social media, but the Pope cites that as a digital sin: ...

Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google. The company was founded by Orkut Buyukkokten in January 2004 and was dissolved in September 2014.

May 2009: Facebook began battling Orkut in earnest. Noticing Orkut’s presence in India, Facebook became conveniently available in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, and all other Indian languages.

Google on Monday announced that it is bidding farewell to Orkut, its first attempt at a social network, which saw fair international success before Facebook took over the scene. Launched in 2004, ...

The Orkut Blog, in announcing new features today, suggested a different approach to social media that could solve some of the problems that Adams outlined. The Debbie in Adams' presentation above ...

This Friendship Day, we look back at the digital evolution from a millennial’s perspective, who refuses to move on from the ...

Orkut, Google’s social media platform is finally shutting down today, as announced by Google earlier. Google had forayed into social networking with Orkut in 2004 in the same year Facebook was ...

5) Google is actively warring with social media itself by penalizing virally successful Web sites. 6) Google’s Orkut social media experiment is a total failure to all but the Brazilian drug cartel.

Google’s Orkut is kind of the awkward step-child of the social media world. Yes, it’s big in Brazil and some other countries, but for the most part, it has always played a distant third fiddle ...

Analysts said Google's baby step into the media business could dead end with the Orkut columns. Or the company could follow the footsteps of Yahoo and America Online, which offer online concerts ...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave an interview over the weekend from Latin America where he explained that his company is putting its social media chips on Brazil, Orkut, and e-commerce.