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Written by Rajiv Dhingra , Watblog.com
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An Indian IIT Post Graduate has created an Orkut application for Facebook known as MyOrkut. This application could possibly make the need to go and visit orkut redundant and also is possibly the most powerful facebook marketing tool to market to orkut users and migrate them to facebook.
Add the application, myorkut, on Facebook. Just submit your Orkut profile ID - NO ORKUT USERNAME and PASSWORD REQUIRED! Once you submit your orkut ID, you can see your orkut profile within Facebook. I know what you are thinking!!! How can I see my profile without submitting my orkut username and password? Well this is probably one of the smartest tricks I have seen done by an Indian Techie! The application has one specific profile username and password already hard coded in the application. So once you give your orkut Profile ID the application uses this orkut profile user's username and password to login and get your details through your profile ID. This is possible because orkut is a completely open social network and if you have a profile id and you are a logged in user, you can see the person's complete profile. ONLY VIEWING AND REPLYING SCRAPS is possible through this application. One can also view profiles of friends that are the latest logged in users. This application doesn't allow you to search friends or view all my friends from orkut. It also doesn't show my communities or friends who have requested friendship.
But the mind boggling feature provided by this is application is that you could type any orkut profile while adding this application of Facebook and impersonate to be that person and scrap his or her friends!!! This means anyone can post scrap impersonating anyone else!!! But there is a catch here, the scraps are actually sent from the Facebook profile ID that is hard coded in the application. The application smartly embeds your orkut profile picture within the scrap!! It also adds a disclaimer message - "this message was sent from Facebook. Note: this user was not logged in to orkut while writing this scrap, hence his/her identity cannot be confirmed."
Besides publicizing Facebook, this simple application can take users away from orkut and also exposes orkut to huge amount of illegal impersonating scraps which could cause a lot of pain to unknown users who might not be aware of this application. In conclusion I would like to say that this application is just a testimony for the growing need of a social network aggregator application. Also it's a heartening sight to see Indian techies building such state of the art applications! KUDOS TO THE APPLICATION DEVELOPER!
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