I woke up today morning to see Orkut introduced facebook-like Social Apps for Indians. This has been announced months back and they first released it to “Estonians” some months back. It’s great news that Orkut has launched the feature to Indian’s too (at second rank after Brazil).

There is a banner in your “Home” page to notice you of the addition:

You can access and manage the apps at MyApps page which can be accessed from your Home page (Right under the profile picture).

Currently, there are 18 apps available for Indians to add to their profile. They include Games, Music, Movie Ratings & Reviews, Photo-related ones etc. You can have the full list of available apps in your MyApps page.

You can have music in your profile, a slideshow, Favorite Movies’ reviews etc..

Once added, the apps will be shown at the bottom of your profile page.

A screenshot of an app, i just tried out:

These newly-launched apps are sure to create a wave among the Indian Youth. We will see more Orkutting.

Most of these apps, are granted “root-level” access to your profile on adding. Since, every single app is tested and approved by Orkut before publishing, security is assured (at least for the time being!!).

(It was just last week, Orkut launched Orkut Mobile Version & Orkut Low-Bandwidth Version. Good going!!!)