Orkut going more social

Orkut is now enabling developers to make their social applications available to orkut users.

To prepare for this growth, they are accepting social applications. For a while now, developers have been able to write, test, and play with applications on orkut. Later this month, however, orkut is going to start rolling them out to orkut users. OpenSocial developers can submit their completed applications (deadline: Feb. 15).

"To help developers ready their applications, we're offering engineering support and training. We've scheduled orkut hackathons on Feb. 14-15 from 10 am-6 pm at the Googleplex in Mountain View and via videoconference in New York." said Amar Gandhi, orkut Group Product Manager.

For more information or to RSVP, you can send an email at hackathon.rsvp@gmail.com.

If you can't attend, you can participate in the OpenSocial forums or on chat (irc://irc.freenode.net/opensocial).