Nikpages » userscript http://www.nikpages.com Blogging about the web, social media and Technology Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:43:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to remove ads from Orkut pages http://www.nikpages.com/how-remove-ads-orkut-pages/ http://www.nikpages.com/how-remove-ads-orkut-pages/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:01:29 +0000 Nikhil http://www.nikpages.com/?p=242 orkut-adsYou must have noticed that Orkut has now shifted the position of ads to the top of Orkut pages. Doesn’t that make Orkut look dirty? I will show you how you can remove those ads from Orkut pages. This trick has been there for quite some time, but now that Orkut is showing them right at top of pages, I think it would be good to remove them.

Why Orkut is showing ads ?

The Official Orkut blog explains that in this post as

One of the great things about social networks is their ability to supply you with information that’s relevant to you….On the Orkut team, we believe that advertisements should be no different

So the Orkut team thinks that these ads may provide additional information relevant to you.

But that might not be the only reason. There were rumors that Google might be shutting down Orkut. Running Orkut is a very expensive task for Google and they might want to earn at least some part of the expenses through these ads.

In fact they have created a micro site for advertising on Orkut that says Orkut is the best way to reach Indians online.

]]> http://www.nikpages.com/how-remove-ads-orkut-pages/feed/ 3 Add user menu to Orkut http://www.nikpages.com/add-user-menu-to-orkut/ http://www.nikpages.com/add-user-menu-to-orkut/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:55:44 +0000 Nikhil http://www.nikpages.com/?p=13 This is a GreaseMonkey application that adds  a user menu to user profiles on orkut that provides one click access to their scarpbook,album,add as friend etc when you right click on user pictures. This is really cool feature and avoid wasting time by visiting the user profile each time.

There was some other userscripts for firefox similar to this that replaced user name with links to scrapbook, album etc, but this one is better and beautiful. See screenshot

usermenu

This script works only with Mozilla Firefox free downloadable.

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