New Improved & GOooglish Orkut on the way soon

This news is not so new but still its important enough to feature here.
According to the SocialStream Project website:

Directed to help improve the online community orkut, the project’s scope was not to simply redesign the interface. Our team considered how online social networking could bring greater value to users, especially for ages above twenty. After initial brainstorming and research, we chose to focus on the effects of a new model for online social networking: a unified social network that, as a service, provides social data to many other applications. Our user research examined needs related to online as well as offline social networking and considered how they related to a unified social network service model. Through this user research we identified a set of archetypes that represent common behavior patterns that existed across multiple study participants and also formulated a summarized list of their high level needs.

Overview

If you look upon the website and project details you will find that they are again trying to innovative, this time their goal is to make it solution for everything. Earlier as google started combining everything under one ie. making Google Accounts, now they are trying to do same with entertainment stuff, combining all possible mode of communication and online entertainment under one banner.

There is whole lot of information available on their website:
Social Stream features

I hope when it public then it will again change a whole lot of things and yes, I was always thinking why orkut is such dormant progresswise, its not really google way .. isn’t ? :p but .. they are actually doing a lot of things behind the scene, check out social stream project site and you will know

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