Year: 2008 (Page 13 of 14)

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Back in November, Orkut announced that orkut was open to developers. Developers have been building exciting new social applications over the last few months that will make the orkut experience even better. This is why we’re excited to announce that apps will be available to a subset of orkut users starting in a couple weeks, and to all orkut users several weeks after that.

In the meantime, here on the orkut blog, we will be inviting guest posts from developers as a sneak peak into some of the apps developers have built, so stay tuned!

If you’re a developer and want to have your app available to orkuteers the last week of February, you can find out more on how to submit your app here. If you need more info on how to build an app, check out http://code.google.com/apis/orkut/.

The latest versions of APIs are available, and developers can build and test their apps at sandbox.orkut.com. We are going to be accepting applications into the directory manually in order to ensure apps are high quality. To get the latest news on the orkut sandbox, check out the new orkut developer blog.

Have an orkut app that you would like featured here? After you’ve submitted your app to us , send us an email (orkut-app-submissions@google.com) with a description (250 words or less), screenshots, and/or a video walkthrough.

We’ve seen people recreate the M from the Gmail logo out of dominoes and even sand, but until our colleagues in Google’s Moscow office created this video, we’re pretty sure no one had ever made a giant Gmail interface with:

– 162 meters of gray tape
– 45 lego pieces
– 32 sticks of plasticine
– 18 brushes
– 18 square meters of batten
– 12 cans of spray paint
– 10 liters of white paint
– 4 reams of paper
– 2 kilograms of millet porridge
– 1 printer
– 1 hair dryer
– 1 mop
– 1 saw

And the actual M at the end of the video? That’s 3 sweaters, 3 balls, 3 pillows, 2 dumbbells, 2 pair of gloves, a set of child’s plates, a hockey stick, a scarf, a paper folder, hats and slippers. All in red of course.

Sometimes you need to chat with someone about an urgent project, but can’t be bothered by anyone else. And going “busy” just isn’t enough — you might still get that unwanted ping. So, as some people have already noticed, we rolled out invisible mode for the latest version of Gmail chat last Friday. With this feature, you can appear offline, and still send and receive messages. If you’re using AIM in Gmail, invisible mode also makes you appear signed out on the AIM network. Invisible mode is one of the most requested chat features and so we’re happy to add this option, starting in Gmail Chat, and in the future all Talk clients.

As some of you have already noted, chat could be less useful if lots of people go invisible. We’ll keep an eye on it and look for your feedback to be sure we’re doing what’s best for the community.