ORKUT ON MOBILE

While orkut users love having an online social network, we understand that a good deal of your social life happens offline. What if we could bring orkut to the device we carry around in your pocket: the mobile phone. Thus the idea for an orkut SMS service was born. THE search engine giant has taken the first steps to making this a reality.That is if you are Brazilian.

With orkut's new SMS feature, you can scrap your friends, look up their contact information and receive scrap notifications. Now you can send scraps from the bus, bar or bathroom, and your friends can get notified of those scraps when on bicycle, beach or bed. Along with the standard orkut features, we've included a few hidden goodies for the adventurous to find.

This week, orkut SMS will become available to orkut members in Brazil who use Claro as their mobile service provider. When the feature becomes available to you, a message will be displayed when you sign in to your account. We hope to expand soon to other mobile service providers in Brazil and around the globe.

So next time you want to scrap your friend about a party, just text message orkut with "scrap Mr. X it's party time man!"