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By now, you might have already heard a lot about Google Friend Connect(GFC) (From now on, TechPluto is also a GFC enabled site). In brief, it’s an online service by Google that empowers its implementing website, with most of the social features that any basic social networking website possesses. It requires no technical knowledge to install ‘Google Friend Connect’ and this truely makes it a Common man’s product.

With a number of widgets available for the website owner to use (such as ‘Member widget’, ‘Comment widget’ and so on), the website …

Flock is an open source browser and would be more useful to bloggers and people involved in social networks or people who are web 2.0 savvy. Flock is based upon open source code from Mozilla’s Firefox browser.

Flock is equipped with lots of social networking tools such as integrated blogging, flicker and Youtube support, bookmark syncing with del.icio.us, inbuilt feed reader, can add social accounts like facebook, twitter etc

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However Orkut isn’t a prominent social networking site in U.S. and Europe but when the stats are compared worldwide,Orkut seems to be a frontrunner in its arena.

Orkut majorly dominates Brazilian and Indian market.In India,there are local competitors like Bigadda and ibibo which are also fueling big bucks into their systems but Orkut is unarguably the winner of young indian hearts.

But this Google’s service is still struggling for the monetory returns it was looking for.The ROI of Orkut is below expectations …

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Recently,Facebook came into limelight for disabling few user accounts just because those users were majorly spending their time on Facebook playing a game called PackRat.Facebook justified it saying that the game is so addictive that many guys create new facebook accounts just for the sake of playing PackRat and not for the actual purpose of this ‘Social Utility’.

Such accounts,which rather ill-utilize the ‘social utility’ are a burden to the website and hence may be banned.

The mail which was sent to the user who got banned also stated that

Facebook isn’t …

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It’s hard time for popular social networks to get the much desirable payback from the networks they have built all over the world.And it’s not one but the majority of such networking sites,that aren’t able to find an antidote to this problem.

Orkut for instance,has a massive following in Brazil and India but when it comes to monetizing its network,it is still struggling to even find a ray of hope.One reason can be below average(compared to myspace,facebook) CPM rates as the majority of the audience …

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Today,majority of the web-addicts can be found twittering,blogging or roaming in their social networks(Facebook,Myspace,Orkut etc) and most of them find it refreshing as well.

But the need of introducing novelty in conventional social networking is ever demanding.

Hurox(pronounced as “who rocks”) , promises to fulfill this need.It assures to be not-so-average social network,inculcating