Orkut's Inefficiency in Approving/Filtering quality apps

Original author: erinthom...@gmail.com (August 25, 2009 07:34:41)

Hi,

I would like to bring to your notice that there are a lot of fake/fradulent applications that are running on Orkut, like people stealing other people's XML's with the same name and re-submitting the application, same apps repeated for more than once. I dont have any personal grudge against these developers.My intentions are clear, I feel Orkut should be more responsible while approving apps, Also you should strictly remove apps which dont have any sense or which are not working by monitoring them once in a while.Otherwise alot of talented developers who make their best efforts day and night in making outstanding apps for Orkut alone will not be appreciated for their hardwork, as you guys dont even care the quality of the apps you approve,the best ones are always pushed to the back pages and are not even viewed by other Orkut Users. Dont approve apps just for the sake of showing more count of apps in Orkut than any other social networking site.

One such user is Swarnava Sengupta You can see his apps here http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppDirectory.aspx? dirFilters=&dirQuery=Swarnava His first application "Send Scrap to All", is repeated at the 4th postion on the same page mentioned above.Once you click this app http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppInfo.aspx?appId=444304650431&ref=SR ,the name of the app changes to "Stop Woking",whereas the repeat app http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppInfo.aspx?appId=705523577439&ref=SR doesnt even work,but gives an error "Unable to retrieve: http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/114699564936817898687/world.xml ". The same is the problem with "Remind Me - Absolutely Free SMS Reminder",which shows the error "Unsupported feature: org.apache.shindig.common.xml.XmlException: Content is not allowed in prolog. At: (1,1)". Some of the Apps that are repeated in the directory: http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppDirectory.aspx? dirFilters=&dirQuery=IFRAME+TEST http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppDirectory.aspx? dirFilters=&dirQuery=REAL+POOL+GAMES+ONLINE http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppDirectory.aspx? dirFilters=&dirQuery=BUBBLE+SHOOTER+GAMES+ONLINE http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppDirectory.aspx? dirFilters=&dirQuery=DRAGONBALL+Z+2 http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppDirectory.aspx? dirFilters=&dirQuery=ULTIMATE+CHOPPER+ONLINE+GAMES There are more repeated apps..Right now I've managed to find these only..will post more if you need.

Violating Orkut's Policy: This app is using google's logo and also it doesnt work at all. http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppInfo.aspx?appId=20062620106

In Movies and TV category: There are a lot of apps which doesnt even make any sense..like Katrina Kaif Photo Gallery,Angelina Jolie Gallery,Aishwarya Rai Gallery,Preity Zinta,Ayesha Takia,Deepika Padukone..Why do you make it too simple for people to make apps by just showing celebrities photos gallery?

App developer Prashant,Smita,Orkutfans has the most number of celebrity gallery apps..It a shame to see all these apps being approved in Orkut.

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppDirectory.aspx?dirFilters=&dirQuery=prashant http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppDirectory.aspx?dirFilters=&dirQuery=smita http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppDirectory.aspx? dirFilters=&dirQuery=orkutfans.com

This is really ridiculous.. Why do you approve all these spammer's apps? All other websites like (Facebook,MySpace,Bebo,Ning,Friendster,Hi5) which use the opensocial apis make sure they approve quality apps for their websites.Why can't Orkut make sure only good apps are running on their website?Also Try to filter out the repeated apps from the directory.

Hope you guys will look into this matter as soons as possible.Please dont discourage genuine developers.

Thanks& Regards, Erin

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/issues/detail?id=888

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