Sunil Urs

After being in sandbox for months , finally Open Social is live on Orkut. Now members can add applications. Whenever you add an application, Orkut is sends updates to everyone on friends list. This will give massive advertising for all applications and that makes sure that applications spread rapidly.

Currently am seeing a total of 18 applications including iLike, Emote!, PhotoAttack, Horoscopes, TypeRacer, TopFriends by Slide.com, SlideTV, etc. Here is a screen shot of the application directory.

Now Orkut is allowing members to submit there applications.

Though Open Social development started as a competitor for Facebook Apps, its not getting much traction yet. Anyway, Orkut will be a bit more exiting now.

MySQL GUI,  SQLyog 6.52 has been released. This version of SQLyog has got a lot of new features and performance improvements over older versions. SQLyog is one among the best MySQL GUI tools available in the market. It has got an Open Source version and an Enterprise version. Here are some of the feature / improvements in the latest versions of SQLyog.

Visual Schema Designer:

Visual Schema Designer now supports zooming, printing and image export. The Schema Designer (introduced in SQLyog version 6.1) is a visual interface where tables and table structures can be defined,   displayed and manipulated.

The Schema Designer provides a convenient graphical way to perform common operations as an    alternative to the menu-based way of operation that was always supported. Also the Schema Designer provides a graphical overview of (complete or only parts of) your MySQL databases.   

Auto-complete:  Improved Auto-complete with Alias(table alias as well as column alias) support.

Performance: 10x speed improvements in many batch/bulk operations .

Some of the other features present in SQLyog are  backup and restore, object management, database synchronization, notification services, ODBC import, structure synchronization and scheduled backups.

You can get the latest version of SQLyog here.