Sometime back, Google added a feed reader in Orkut that would let anyone read blogs or view photo streams without having to leave the Orkut website.
The feature got lot of good press because it indirectly helped introduce the concept of RSS feeds to people who may be active on Orkut but have never paid attention to those orange XML icons before.
The support site has a page devoted to adding feeds but it looks like Orkut may have silently dropped the RSS feature with the introduction of OpenSocial Applications. The Feeds page on Orkut is now returning a 404.
It’s obvious that third-party developers will quickly build RSS reading apps for Orkut, like they have done for the Facebook platform, but am not too sure if these apps would be able to retrieve the feeds that you earlier subscribed to in Orkut.
Update: The RSS feeds in Orkut are still available though the location has changed. To access your Orkut RSS feeds, go to orkut.com/MyApps.aspx – Thanks for the tip Kunwar.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/orkut-rss-feeds-subscribed-go-missing/3009/
Reader Comments
The feed reader in Orkut is still there and you can still add feeds. Only its page address is changed. Now it is present here orkut.com/MyApps.aspx?tab=1 i.e. under “My Feeds” when you click on Edit Apps.
Written by Kunwar on 04.17.08
Its really shocking to see. Feeds is the key element of Web 2.0 concept and orkut never shown any interest in feeds.
A month ago, I have started a a free service – OrkutFeeds (link: orkutfeeds.com), where people can subscribe to any Orkut scrapbook, community or topic in to RSS feeds format. And in small time more than 2000 unique feeds have been burned!
But rather than adding/enhancing support for feeds orkut pulled back whatever little feed stuff they had their… :-(
Written by Rahul Bansal on 04.17.08
Google RSS team is totally concerned towards Feedburner and if something like this happens, on another G website. What else to say?
Users sure getting troubled in this.
Written by Siddharth on 04.17.08
I didn’t get any problem still.
Written by Blogger on 04.20.08
Does not look like its there. It just shows browse app. Orkut is really dull. looks like final year engineering project :) …Once you move out of orkut and use FB you cant really use it.
Written by Jigar Shah on 02.21.09