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Orkut Goes Mobile

As we all know Orkut is Google's little friendly social networking app that trys to compete with Myspace and Facebook. Well, now you can go mobile with Orkut. Head on over to Google in your web browser and you will see a list of apps such as Gmail, Google maps and now the new addition of Orkut.

From what I have see is it is very limited. There’s “My updates” “Home” “Scrapbook” and a few others. Nothing like the Myspace or Facebook mobile sites. Google: if you really want to throw Orkut out there with the big boys you’re going to have to make it a little more versatile. ...And get a bigger user base. We'd ask you to not screw up your site with the flash and ugly of MySpace and the bandwidth-choking insanity of Facebook apps, but apparently there's no accounting for taste these days.