Google had added basic feed reading capabilities inside Orkut. You can type in the RSS feed address and read the posts without leaving Orkut.
Your favorite RSS feeds will show up in your profile and hence other Orkut friends can easily subscribe to your reading list.
Orkut has a huge base and this could be another big step in introducing RSS to the masses - people who have never heard of "feeds" will be curious to learn about the technology when they see a "feeds" link on their profile pages. Anand has a similar opinion.
Orkut feed reader may also serve as a cache when the original post is deleted by the blogger. Here's what the Orkut Feeds Help says:
Facebook also has a similar RSSBook application.If you Once a feed has been crawled, the content cannot be deleted from orkut. For example, last week you wrote a blog post that was crawled by orkut's feed reader and appeared in your profile. If you delete the post today, it will still show up as part of your orkut feed.
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Reader Comments
Oh Amit, you missed to say about another feature,
That is integration of picasa.
You haven't mentioned about it in your post...Now picasa web-album can be integrated too.
Written on 2/6/07 9:20 AM
Picasa Web Albums is just another RSS feed with picture enclosures. You can virtually add any feed now including your Flickr photo gallery.
Written on 2/6/07 11:36 AM
Hey, I am new to your blog. Must say you have an excellent Indian Tech. blog.
Orkut got basic feedreader and Google bought Feedburner.
Guess feed shall inherit the Earth.
Written on 2/6/07 3:35 PM