Google plans to open Orkut’s code
Oct 8th, 2007 by dabloguiman
Google is starting to throw more resources behind its social networking site Orkut recognizing that the social networking phenomenon is very profound and powerful.
Orkut is very popular in Asia and Latin America where it has nearly 24 million monthly users. However it badly trails behind MySpace and Facebook in the US and Europe where it only has 600,000 and about 1.2 million users, respectively.
Google hopes this will change after November 5 when it plans to open Orkut’s software code, known to developers as an Application Programming Interface (API), to outside programmers.
Once the code is released independent developers will be able to create a plethora of new applications for Orkut that could boost its usage, something similar to what occurred after Facebook released its code in May which has resulted in developers writing more than 3,000 new applications for the site.
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