Orkut Launches Applications, BigAdda Gets BigB On The Day MySpace India Is Launched
—Google (NSDQ: GOOG) owned Orkut, widely acknowledged as the social network with the largest Indian community, launched applications today. Orkut has been building up to the launch of applications on its blog for a while now, highlighting apps like Reading Social, TypeRacer (I’ve won every game I’ve played so far), viibee, iRead, My Mini Life, Crazy Story Game, Hangout and Photoattack. Orkut had announced the opening up of its API in November. Here’s a video on YouTube giving a tour of apps on Orkut. There are two significant things here: Orkut is introducing apps first in India, before a worldwide rollout, and apps were rolled out shortly before the MySpace launch.
—A number of celebrities have MySpace pages, and now BigAdda, the social networking site from Reliance Entertainment, has roped in Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan to start a blog on the site, at http://bigb.bigadda.com . As per the release, he will respond to comments. So far, the site only has interviews that Bachchan has given. No random post from him yet, and just one comment so far.
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Comments (9)
Apr 18, 2008 5:31 AM
It wasn’t rolled out in India 1st. Get your facts right.
Apr 18, 2008 6:15 AM
Rajesh: thats what it says on the Orkut blog: http://en.blog.orkut.com/2008/04/apps-are-live-in-india.html
“Today we began rolling out applications (apps for short) on orkut to everyone in India and will roll out apps to all orkuteers, in local languages, over the next few weeks” and “Watch out for the “add apps” link in your profile over the coming weeks. We’ll give you an update when apps are available to everyone worldwide.”
Apr 18, 2008 6:19 AM
pls check your facts -
1. there are more than 100 comments on the blog
2. pls read BigB’s comment - bigadda did not rope him - he’s chosen the site. its clear from his note that this is not a marketing gimmick but an initiative from his side. even his interview in the papers say that.
Apr 18, 2008 6:34 AM
Checked AB’s blog on Bigadda…. found loads of comments posted there. A man of his stature deserves a platform…clubbing it with the launch of another site and naming it as a marketing stunt makes no sense to me.
Apr 18, 2008 6:36 AM
It’s also not fair to draw assumptions basis a release sent to you, had you read the newspapers today, some with Big B’s interviews, you’d know its not some promotional gimmick.
I guess you draw assumptions too soon without checking facts… is it your gimmick to make your blog interesting?
Apr 18, 2008 6:47 AM
When I checked the site yesterday evening, there was just one comment.
Apr 18, 2008 7:06 AM
I’d posted a comment yesterday too…. but its up only today. I guess they’re moderating the comments, which is why its taking so long.
Apr 18, 2008 7:09 AM
I logged on to bigadda and checked Mr.Bachchan’s blog. His blog clearly shows his enthutiatism and effort to connect with his fans…Also he has written about his experience on the 1st day of his blog, where he says he was not expecting such an overwhelming response! Every post of his has a large no. of comments already!
I think this is clearly a sincere and an honest effort from his end to connect with his fans…and not a gimmick.
Also the quotes given by him very clearly state that he selected bigadda as a platform to express himself and no where do they imply that he was roped in by bigadda.
Apr 18, 2008 10:42 PM
Nikhil, the apps were launched in Estonia before they were launched in India. The quotation on the Orkut blog is misleading.