Orkut is Social Networking site by Google. This is famous in Brazil and Indian continent. Here each users have scrapbook where other users can write entry that called scraps. Users have option to set who can view or write in their scrapbook.

In older Orkut can chould have upto 1,00,000(1 lakh) scrap, If we get more then it start showing 1,00,000 (1 lakh+). But in new improved version of Orkut this has been decreased to 10,000.

We can send text, images, music files etc in scrapbooks. We can send HTML content to all our friends scrapbook and normal text to everyone at Orkut. We can also write in local language in scrapbook using Google transliteration.

Yahoo has added a new feature in its yahoo messenger, which allows you to create your very own yahoo messenger chat box, for your website where you can chat with your viewers or you  can add it in various social networking sites which it supports to talk to your friends. cool isnt it ?

You can even embed a chat box in you scrapbook where you can talk to strangers who visit your scrapbook.

Pretty nice.

So to make a chat box all you need to do are the following steps given bellow.

1. Log into your yahoo account.

2. Go to Yahoo Pingbox Studio

3. Create your desired pingbox with any theme you want.

4. When you save your pingbox and it’ll take you to the next page where it’ll provide you the code.

5. Here select “Any website” if you are making it for your website or select “Hi5″ if you want it for Orkut.

6. When you get the code. Post it in your scrapbook and in you friends scrapbook, or embed it in your website. You need to be logged into yahoo to use this feature.

Any visitor who see this box can choose a Nick name and can chat with you.

7. You can also use this feature with yahoo messenger on you PC, if someone wants to chat with you in your pingbox you can also chat with them with yahoo messenger on you PC.

Happy Pingboxing enjoy !!

- Vikram