If you want to create a new account in Orkut you will first need to register yourself a Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail email address, as this will be used to verify your account.
Alternatively, if you’ve got a Google account already linked to your email address you can create an ID with that. If you are using your Google account to create an ID, go to www.orkut.com, where on the right you can sign in using your Google account. It will ask you if you want to create an account linked to that particular email address, if so, click Continue, if not, you will have to use another address. You will be directed to a form requiring your name, date of birth, gender, completion of a word-verification to make sure you’re not a computer, and also you will be required to accept the terms and conditions of the service. If your account has been suspended you will not be able to create a new ID with the previous registered email address, and will have to re-register to Orkut with a different email address and new Orkut ID.
Orkut is a social network owned by Google, and is named after its creator, a Google employee named Orkut Buyukkokten. He was commissioned to start working on the network after a failed attempt from Google to buy Friendster, another popular social network, in 2003. In its beginnings, membership to Orkut was via invite only - only after the site started to lose its American audience to MySpace and the Brazilian userbase dominated its demographic did it open to anyone by registration. Brazil still accounts for just over 50 per cent of the entire userbase, followed by India with 20 per cent, and the U.S. With 17 per cent, and 53 per cent of users are aged between 18 and 25.
Alternatively, if you’ve got a Google account already linked to your email address you can create an ID with that. If you are using your Google account to create an ID, go to www.orkut.com, where on the right you can sign in using your Google account. It will ask you if you want to create an account linked to that particular email address, if so, click Continue, if not, you will have to use another address. You will be directed to a form requiring your name, date of birth, gender, completion of a word-verification to make sure you’re not a computer, and also you will be required to accept the terms and conditions of the service. If your account has been suspended you will not be able to create a new ID with the previous registered email address, and will have to re-register to Orkut with a different email address and new Orkut ID.
Orkut is a social network owned by Google, and is named after its creator, a Google employee named Orkut Buyukkokten. He was commissioned to start working on the network after a failed attempt from Google to buy Friendster, another popular social network, in 2003. In its beginnings, membership to Orkut was via invite only - only after the site started to lose its American audience to MySpace and the Brazilian userbase dominated its demographic did it open to anyone by registration. Brazil still accounts for just over 50 per cent of the entire userbase, followed by India with 20 per cent, and the U.S. With 17 per cent, and 53 per cent of users are aged between 18 and 25.