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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Bom Sabado! Orkut Bug

Few hours back I got few scraps from my friends just saying “Bom Sabado!” The first thing which I did was translated it to see what does it means and its was written in Portuguese saying “Good Saturday!”

However this message was coming from friends who were not knowing Portuguese that made me suspicious to investigate on it. Then on further research I came to know that Orkut has been attached by a bug.

 

Symptoms of bug Bom Sabado!

  1. Automatically  messages are been sent to all your friends saying “Bom Sabado!
  2. Automatically  you would be added to few numbers of communities few are shown below.

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=106691341
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=106698628
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=558494
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=6

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=106698808

 

Precautions / Workaround

  1. Do not log-in into Orkut till the issue is been solved.
  2. Change your passwords.
  3. Change your securities questions and answers.
  4. Clear your browsers cookies and cache.
  5. Use the old version of Orkut and remove the communities which has been added without your knowledge. But once this has been done do log out again to be on safer side.
  6. Use m.orkut.com if you cant take your hands off from Orkut
  7. Disable the JavaScript of your browsers

As this issue has been passed on to the Orkut team, hence let us hope for the best and let the team do their their job to clean up this mess as soon as possible.

Any more workarounds or solutions to this issue would be useful for others so do share your suggestions with us.  




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Saturday, December 12, 2009

[Giveaway] Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut Giveaway-3

This is the 3rd Giveaway for new version of Orkut which is been hosted by Orkut Sharing. Last 2 Giveaway’s had gone fantastic and we had got great response for your side so that’s one of the reason we have come up with another Giveaway as Orkut has refilled the invitations.

As we always believed sharing is everything this time we would be giving out all the 20 invitation which has been refilled.  So the first 20 people who would be leaving a comments in this post would be taking back the all new version of Orkut with them…!

20 Invitations

To participate in this giveaway you just have to follow these four simple rules which are as follows:

1. You must be our email subscriber, if you are not then please subscribe to our feeds and verification is must.

2. Tweet the below message in your Twitter account.

Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut – By Orkut Sharing - http://tinyurl.com/ydvcokt

3. Update your Orkut status with the following text

Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut – By Orkut Sharing - http://tinyurl.com/ydvcokt

4. Leave a comment in the comment section below with your

  • Name -
  • Email address - (which has been used for email subscription.)
  • Twitter status link - (which has the above tweeted message.)
  • Orkut Profile link -

Please make sure you give your Twitter status rather then giving your Twitter Id. To get the link of the Twitter status after you tweeted above message follow the steps below to get the correct Twitter status.


- Make sure you’re on the “Home” page of Twitter.
- On the right, click on the word “tweets” right up under your Twitter username.
- Locate the tweet you’d like to link to, and find where it shows how long ago the tweet was tweeted (ex: “about 2 hours ago”). Click that and you should be taken to a page that displays only that specific tweet.
- Copy the url in the address bar, and paste it  in your comment with other details to link directly to that tweet.

So what are you waiting for? Grab your invitation of new Orkut version before its taken by others…..

Orkut Sharing reserves all rights to change the terms and conditions of this giveaway at anytime without prior notice.




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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Winners of New Orkut Version for Giveaway-2

The time has come to announce the winners of Giveaway-2 for 8 free invitation of new Orkut version. So lets not waste time and directly come to the point, following is the list who are considered as valid participants for Giveaway-2. The same order was input into Randomizer list of Random.org

  1. Mohit Singh - http://twitter.com/mohit60000
  2. Sachin Korgaonkar - http://twitter.com/spiritualkinky/status/5588265021
  3. Rama krishna - http://tweetmeme.com/comment/265159945-18228
  4. Vivek - http://twitter.com/vivmaniaa
  5. Prateek Prajapati - http://twitter.com/pyamini
  6. ABUBAKAR SIDDIQ    - http://twitter.com/abuintvitter
  7. Dibakar Saha - http://twitter.com/d_saha
  8. Kudratdeep Singh - http://twitter.com/kudratdeep/status/5648465870
  9. Ch siddhartha - http://twitter.com/chsiddhartha
  10. DIVYESH PAREKH - http://twitter.com/divyeshparekh/status/5669277486
  11. Rahul - http://twitter.com/rahulchakrawar
  12. Frank hanson -    http://twitter.com/frankhansn
  13. Vishnu Babu - http://twitter.com/vishnubabu_vb/status/5674475656

After randomizing the list we picked up first 8 participants name from the list as winners and for proof I have also taken a snap-shot of the list.

Winners of Giveaway-2 for New Okut

And the winners are 

  1. Prateek Prajapati
  2. Kudratdeep Singh
  3. Frank hanson
  4. Dibakar Saha
  5. Rahul
  6. DIVYESH PAREKH
  7. ABUBAKAR SIDDIQ
  8. Rama krishna

We would like to congratulate all the winners, do enjoy the new version of Orkut and let us know how do you find it and also share your new Orkut experience with us.

Note: If any of the winners has already got an invitation for new orkut version then their invite would be given to others which would be randomly pick by Orkut Sharing.




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Monday, November 9, 2009

[Giveaway] Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut Giveaway-2

UPDATE:

This giveaway has been closed..!

Check out Giveaway – 3

After a huge success of Giveaway-1 we have again come back with Giveaway-2 for new version of Orkut as we promised.  This time we wish and guess it would two times bigger and successful from last giveaway because Giveaway-2 has two times the number of invites from Giveaway-1. Yes, guys we still have 8 more invitation left for new version of Orkut which would be given to our 8 lucky readers in this giveaway.

Starting from today this giveaway has been open and will end on 13th November.

Rules:

This time we have four simple rules which are as follows:

1. You must be our email subscriber, if you are not then please subscribe to our feeds and verification is must.

2. Tweet the below message in your Twitter account.

Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut – By Orkut Sharing - http://tinyurl.com/yenv7v9

3. Update your Orkut status with the following text

Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut – By Orkut Sharing - http://tinyurl.com/yenv7v9

4. Leave a comment in the comment section below with your

  • Name.
  • Email address which has been used for email subscription .
  • Twitter status link which has the above tweeted message.
  • Orkut Profile link.

Please make sure you give your Twitter status rather then giving your Twitter Id. To get the link of the Twitter status after you tweeted above message follow the steps below


- Make sure you’re on the “Home” page of Twitter.
- On the right, click on the word “tweets” right up under your Twitter username.
- Locate the tweet you’d like to link to, and find where it shows how long ago the tweet was tweeted (ex: “about 2 hours ago”). Click that and you should be taken to a page that displays only that specific tweet.
- Copy the url in the address bar, and paste it  in your comment with other details to link directly to that tweet.

To be fair we’ll again use Random.org to pick 8 winners randomly who will receive an invitation.

Deadline Date: 13th November 2009, all the comments posted before or on this day will be valid. Please make sure you follow the rules or else you would be disqualified for this giveaway.

Orkut Sharing reserves all rights to change the terms and conditions of this giveaway at anytime without prior notice.




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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Winners of New Orkut Version for Giveaway-1

Wow, that was the first word which came out of my mouth when I saw the number of participants for the giveaway. This giveaway was one of the biggest giveaway on Orkut Sharing because of the number of participants. Frankly speaking dint really thought that I would get such great response. I guess new orkut is really a hot topic from last few days.

So now lets talk business who are the valid participants for the first giveaway of new orkut version. It was a tough competition guys and we had to take this decisions to be fair enough to everyone.

For this giveaway we would also consider all the participant who has posted their Twitter Id instead of Twitter status but only if they have Tweeted about this giveaway.

Let the count down begin:

Total number of comments – 81

Number of comments excluding duplicate comments and non participants – 58

Total number of comments which are valid for this giveaway – 35

The following list are of valid participants who had given their name, email id and tweeted about this giveaway by giving Twitter status / Twitter id . The same order was input into Randomizer list of Random.org

  1. Rishi - http://twitter.com/rishi3594/status/5311285652
  2. Priscila Vieira - http://twitter.com/priscilavieira
  3. Pranjal Shrivastava - http://twitter.com/pranjal16
  4. Smriti Tripathi - http://twitter.com/smtrip
  5. koushik tripathy - http://twitter.com/koushiktripathy
  6. Aravind - http://twitter.com/idongivadamn
  7. Ashok Vardhan - http://twitter.com/ashezreinz
  8. Guilherme - http://twitter.com/guilws
  9. Karthik - http://www.twitter.com/skarthik22
  10. Marcelo B Carvalho - http://twitter.com/marcelobarbosac
  11. Nishant - http://twitter.com/nishantsaxena09
  12. ridhima - http://twitter.com/ridhts
  13. Debayan Mukherjee - http://twitter.com/debayan3250
  14. Francisco Gaspar - http://twitter.com/fgaspar/status/5325650671
  15. Erick Almeida - http://twitter.com/vovoinsano
  16. Bruno Oliveira - http://twitter.com/BrunoOliv3ira/status/5330381555
  17. rinsoy.n.r - http://twitter.com/Rinsoy
  18. Ravichandra Karkal - http://twitter.com/feelravi/status/5333743794
  19. anirbansaha - http://twitter.com/sahaanirban
  20. Ali Mansoor - http://twitter.com/aLiMaNsOor
  21. Aditya Shrivastava - http://twitter.com/Aditya_Eddy
  22. Sudheer Kamireddi - http://twitter.com/sudheer51
  23. VAIBHAV - http://twitter.com/desicheekna
  24. debayan laha - http://www.twitter.com/debayan_laha
  25. Sumit - http://twitter.com/sumit00/status/5360102585
  26. Abhimanyu Roy - http://twitter.com/e1onmaxspeed
  27. ganesh - http://twitter.com/gannunitp
  28. Gaurav - http://twitter.com/luckysss711
  29. Anderson Garcia - JOE - http://twitter.com/andersonjoe
  30. Natty Campos - http://twitter.com/nattyshaa
  31. Arul Murugan - http://twitter.com/ArulHR
  32. Poncio Pilatos - http://twitter.com/PoncioPilatos/status/5382200973
  33. Ayaskanta Dutta - http://twitter.com/ayascool
  34. Saravana - http://twitter.com/Shravan_kenny
  35. Michelle - http://twitter.com/michellemahasin

After randomizing the list we picked up first 4 participants name from the list as winners and for proof I have also taken a snap-shot of the list.

Winners of Giveaway-1 for New Okut

And the winners are 

  1. Koushik Tripathy
  2. Erick Almeida
  3. Rishi
  4. Poncio Pilatos

We would like to congratulate all the winners, do enjoy the new version of Orkut and let us know how do you find it and also share your new Orkut experience with us.

Note: If any of the winners has already got an invitation for new orkut version then their invite would be used in our second giveaway.

Below is the list of disqualified participant with the reason given.

1. Participants who dint added their Twitter status / Twitter Id or Email id in the comment

  • Abhishek - abhishekrai510@
  • Alisson Comerlatto - comerlatto@
  • Sai - saskey143ihategals@
  • Hitesh - bedi.hitesh@
  • Shruti - helxheaven@
  • Sunil Jain - sunnycoolguy007@
  • Jigar - jigar.cool25.dude@
  • Aman - aman.amansrivastava.srivastava@
  • Vishalmy - erma.vishal1990@
  • Abhishek - abhi.aggarwal93@
  • Nikhil MS – N/A
  • KRISHNA – N/A

2. We were unable to verify about the Tweet because of  their Tweets were protected

3. Participants who dint Tweet about this giveaway when we checked in their Tweets

Orkut Sharing would request all the participant who got disqualified in this giveaway should not loose hope as giveaway – 2 for new version of Orkut would be coming soon…so stay tune guys !

For future updates we would suggest you may choose a Subscribing Type for Orkut Sharing to receive automatic updates.




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Saturday, October 31, 2009

[Giveaway] Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut Giveaway-1

UPDATE:

This giveaway has been closed..!

Check out Giveaway – 3

From yesterday after posting about new version of Orkut and how great the new layout looks and feel I have been getting lot of scarps, friends request even mails from everyone asking for an invitation. Basis on the request and limited number of invites Orkut Sharing planed to giveaway 4 exclusive invites of new version of Orkut to our 4 lucky readers.

Starting from today this giveaway has been open and will end on 4th November. 

Rules:

There are three simple rules of this giveaway which are as follows

     1. Add Ravish Mody as a friend in your Orkut account.

      2. Tweet the below message in your Twitter account.

Get Free Invitation for New Version of Orkut - http://tinyurl.com/ybywalo

     3. Leave a comment in the comment section below with your name, valid email address  and link to your Twitter status.

Orkut Sharing  would also suggest you to subscribe yourself  to our feed by email subscriber for future news and update which may also include a Giveaway-2 for invitation of new Orkut.

To be fair we’ll use Random.org to pick 4 winners randomly who will receive an invitation.

Deadline Date: 4th November 2009, all the comments posted before or on this day will be valid. Please make sure you follow the rules or else you would be disqualified for this giveaway.

Orkut Sharing reserves all rights to change the terms and conditions of this giveaway at anytime without prior notice.




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Friday, October 30, 2009

Twitter Lists Feature Is Now Live

Recently when I logged in my twitter account the first thing which caught my eyes was New! Lists as shown in the below snap-shot. Twitter had mentioned about this feature almost a month ago in their blog Soon to Launch: Lists and from last few days it has started to roll out this features officially.

List twitter

This new Lists feature is still in its beat stage that is the reason it has been only rolled out in a small subsets of users till now .

What does this Twitter Lists do?

Now you can create a lists of Twitter accounts and can share with your friends or with anyone you like by making it public or even keep it to yourself by keeping it private.

I think with this new feature coming in Twitter it would be easer for Twitter users to keep a lists of people which they love to follow as well keep a track of it and what's better then sharing that list with everyone.

So those who have not yet got  this New! Lists box in their accounts should get it soon maybe in next couple of days in the mean time start planning about your list and do share the list with us. Also lets us know what do you think about this new feature in Twitter by leaving a comment. 

[via: Twitter Blog]




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