Photo Tagging Feature Arrives on Orkut!

Lately, Orkut has been closely trying to imitate Facebook. It started with applications, then status messages and the latest is the newly implemented photo tagging feature. If you log into your Orkut account, you’ll notice a new section called "Photos of Me" in your homepage.

orkut_photos_of_me

This section will contain all photos in which you have been tagged by your friends. The same section is visible to your friends on your profile as "Photos of Him". The process of tagging your photos is awkwardly simple:

1. Enlarge the photo that needs to be tagged. Click on the "Add tag" link at the bottom right of the photo. Your mouse cursor will change into ‘+’.

orkut_photo_tag1

2. Drag the ‘+’ cursor over anyone’s face to show up "Add person tag" dialogue box.

orkut_photo_tag2

3. Enter your friend’s name and click on save.

4. This photo will appear on your friend’s profile under his "Photos of him" section.

*If you are concerned about privacy, you can completely disable this feature from the privacy settings page.

Orkut’s photo tagging feature reminds me of Flickr’s note feature, where you can leave notes on any part of the photo by dragging a box on it. Ironically, when I saw this on Orkut, I confused it with Flickr’s photo tagging feature, which happens to be completely different. Nevertheless, I find the photo tagging feature to be extremely useable.

[Thanks, Rahul Bansal]

This post was published by on June 5, 2008

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://www.exposedseo.com Dr SEO

    Its about time. I gonna miss them group pictures, trying to work out which one of these people is the person you are talking to.

  • http://www.pallab.net Pallab

    Orkut is finally becoming respectable. Its still behind the rest but atleast its trying to catchup.
    I am forced to use Orkut because many of my friends use it exclusively.

  • http://www.seoresults.co.za SEO Man

    Why not follow the example of the leading social service on the web? Orkut can do a lot worse than emulating Facebook!

  • http://www.devilsworkshop.org Rahul Bansal

    Thanks Thilak :-)
    May I know which screenshot software you are using?
    Thanks for info in advance :-)

  • http://google.comonmouseover=javascript:alert(Helloworld) Rajesh

    your comments don’t work properly

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Rajesh: Hmmm…. I just checked everything and it seems alright to me. Can you please check back again?

    Rahul Bansal: I use Snagit for my daily screen capturing needs.

    Pallab: Yeah, I find Orkut to be kind of sucky, but since most of my high school buddies get online through Orkut, It’s a do… do…for me!

  • http://www.techiesden.com Vaibhav

    I saw this option in Orkut today, but never explored. You defined it greatly, an i never knew that It was a face book feature, as i dont use it ;)

  • http://www.devilsworkshop.org Rahul Bansal

    Thanks Thilak…. :-)
    Its really great.. :-)

  • http://www.evawhite.com Eva White

    I really need to get onto my Orkut account and check out all these new features.

  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole Price

    I am under the impression that Orkut has gone off to sleep! I have not used it in ages. They do not seem to be bothered to make any noise about themselves!

  • Rajesh

    your comments don't work properly