Orkut new Scrap feature! ~ Technofreak

Friday, June 11, 2010

Orkut new Scrap feature!

3:45 AM

Hey frnds, well till now many of you have already been noticed about this new feature of Orkut but still i will tell you about this because my work is to update you with latest information. So here it is-

According to Google -

"From now on, all scraps you send to your friends will also show up in your profile, making it easy to start new conversations. You can join a conversation already going on by simply adding a comment to it, and the entire conversation will start showing up on your profile too, so you won’t miss a thing.
If you start a new conversation by sending a public scrap to a friend, it will show up both on your profile page and on your friend’s, so both of you won’t miss any replies. This also lets your friends leave comments and join the conversation as well.
Once a third person joins your conversation by posting a comment, the entire conversation will also show up on his profile, so others can get the conversation going too. The same will happen if you comment on a friend’s video or public photo, for example. This way even more people can join in and comment!
Of course, you can also click the scraps to me link to see only scraps sent to you."

Apart of this, Google has also introduced a Private Scrap feature which is described by Google as-

"We take privacy very seriously on orkut, and we want to make it really easy for everyone. That’s why we’re also launching private scraps, so you don’t have to use testimonials for private messages anymore. To keep something secret, just send a private scrap to your friends, and just those people selected will see it. Yep, just them! Recipients can also reply, creating a completely private conversation."

Every piece of content on orkut (a scrap, photo, video, etc) will be labeled with a privacy level on the top of the post, so you can easily know who else is seeing it or not.
There are three levels of privacy for any shared content:

Visible to all the web means that any orkut user can see the content. So if you add a comment to it, your comment will be publicly visible in your profile page as well.
Visible only to friends means that only the friends of the person who initially posted that content will be able to see it. So if you add a comment to it, your comment will show up in your profile page only for those friends that have access to the original post. Other users simply won’t see anything.
Visible only to selected friends means that only a few users were selected to see the content. If you can see it and you’re not the one who posted it, then the person who did it selected you to see that content. Any comment you add will only be visible in your profile page to those selected friends that are able to see the initial content. Other users simply won’t see anything.