After the successful addition of “add photo” feature in scrap books. Orkut now brings you the facility of adding maps in your scraps.

Twitter will today launch a new feature for its users which will allow the users quote tweets directly from the twitter page. The only way to quote someone’s tweets till date was to capture a screenshot and present it to your readers.

Good News for all email users of U.K. Google’s popular mail service Gmail will be providing them their email ids with “@gmail.com” instead of prevailing “@googlemail.com.”

Google Ventures is an investment arm of Google Inc. Google Ventures not only provides start up capital to different entrepreneurial projects across the globe but also helps them with all available resources of Google, provides assistance in staffing, product launches and leveraging technical resources. Most importantly it allows the foster entrepreneur to work in an Independent atmosphere.

170 students studying in different universities of U.S., Canada, Europe, Middle East and Africa will be awarded Anita Borg Scholarship by Google this year plus these fortunate students will also get chance to visit the office and meet some of Internet universe’s big guns.

A few days back BumpTop, a 3D desktop for PC and Mac developer company, announced that BumpTop was being discontinued and that they were taking the software “…in an exciting new direction…”. And two days later it announced that the company had been acquired by the search giant Google. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed yet.

Cricket is the favorite sport of almost every Indian but Youtube catered the passion of fans outside India. 40% of viewer ship that is about 20 million viewers were watching the streaming on Youtube from countries other than India. Youtube paid less than 10 million dollars for Internet rights. Seven sponsors paid about a million dollars to Youtube.

In a dinner organized in White House for journalists, Obama spoke high words for social media sites:- ‘But even though the mainstream press gives me a hard time, I hear that I’m still pretty big on Twitter, Facebook … or as Sarah Palin calls it, the socialized media.’

Facebook has just announced a few changes to its existing “Events” system which lets you create events and invite/inform your friends about the event. The event sharing system is quite useful as it makes your task easier to get connected with your friends.

Here comes the month of May. It’s time now to turn old pages of top 10 stories published in last month of April 2010 on OrkutHeroes.com. You can always check on the Archives section of our blog to keep updated with old stories or subscribe to our daily email updates.Here comes the month of May. It’s time now to turn old pages of top 10 stories published in last month of April 2010 on OrkutHeroes.com. You can always check on the Archives section of our blog to keep updated with old stories or subscribe to our daily email updates.

Today, Linkedin has introduced a new and more effective service for job seekers around the world. The Job Seekers Premium Account. This upgrade will cost you less than $30 for a month. Too less for the services linkedin is providing you, like Featured Applicant, Personalized InMail, webinar, get introduced to inside source of companies etc.