Webupon

The first search results are linked to your network of friends. Your friends and their communities first appear in the search. The second group presents the results of users and communities that are in the same country as you, allowing more easily find people close to you. Finally are the results of other countries.

Sala de Bate Papo

Google announced on November 19, 2008 that will gradually make the Brazilian users a tool to chat integrated with orkut. The social network has worked with Google Talk, but the novelty simplifies access and use of chat.

The tool appears in the bottom of the page, as in Facebook. Orkut users can now surf and chat online at the same time.

External Tools

Are available on the Internet several external tools to facilitate editing and browsing the forums. Are usually add-ons, toolbars and tools that help in the formatting of text and even the addition of images. However, some tools are functional only if the person who is reading the message also has.

Applications – Integration with OpenSocial

On April 16, 2008 orkut added feature of applications, starting in India and then spread to the rest of the world to the few. In Brazil, the only applications arrived on July 10, 2008. With the increasing number of applications on orkut developers added the option to list the applications used by their friends, thus finding applications that have more connection with you.

With technology you can add OpenSocial applications on the user profile, such as for example, slideshow of photos from Flickr, music on the user profile with the service iLike, talk with instant messaging and contacts from Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and ICQ through Meebo, receive also highlights the matches, the 3D avatar and the game BuddyPoke of geographic knowledge Chalenge The Traveler IQ, among other applications.