Orkut is a Feed Reader as Google acquires FeedBurner
Posted by Varun Taneja at Monday, June 04, 2007Hi guys seems that people at Google are in love with feeds let see we already had Google Reader and Adsense for Feeds and now
Google has acquired (read BUY) Chicago-based FeedBurner 
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Not only Google even its product Orkut is now learning to read feeds
Now, you can integrate (add) your blog, photos, events, bookmarks and more to your orkut profile. All you need is an RSS Feed or Atom feed address and orkut will automatically import it and fetch new items.
This will me to introduce (fantastic) feeds to some dumbos friends [and my cuzions - both young and the ones] who are reluctant to know about feeds but are orkut fans ( read ADDICTS) although some of my pals got enlightened on FEEDs thanks to Google Reader
Using Orkut as a FEED READER
If u want to read a feed on orkut just append the feed-url after http://www.orkut.com/ViewFeed.aspx?feedurl= and feed will open with
Eg: Feed Url u want to read is feeds.feedburner.com/InsideOrkut then u can simply go to
http://www.orkut.com/ViewFeed.aspx?feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/InsideOrkut
Note: using this will neither subscribe you to the feed nor will it add it to your orkut profileI
I have also added an orkut button on the left bar and will add same to my email signature using the above technique
Coming back to feedburner story Although Adsense for Feeds might remain in extended BETA so as they come out integrated with feedburners own Feed Advertisement Program. Let's see
Related: Orkut Scraps to RSS Reader
okay guys before i end this something i found for Enlightened ORKUT ADDICTS
A step by step Guide to subscribing to Feeds of Orkut Communities with Orkut Feed (without even being a part that orkut community). You only need to know link of community To check whats happening in that Orkut Community
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