Posted by Amar Gandhi, orkut Group Product Manager

Starting that month, we’re enabling developers to produce their social applications available to orkut users. We’ll start ramping up to more than 50 million humans by the next few weeks.

To prepare for that growth, we’re now accepting social applications. For a while now, developers have been able to write, pop quiz, and play with applications on orkut. Later that month, however, we’re going to start rolling them out to orkut users. OpenSocial developers

can submit their completed applications (deadline: Feb. 15).

To help developers ready their applications, we’re offering engineering support and training. We’ve scheduled orkut hackathons on Feb. 14-15 from 10 am-6 pm at the Googleplex in Mountain View and via videoconference in New York. For more info or to RSVP, please mail hackathon.rsvp@gmail.com. whether you can’t attend, we hope to see you in the OpenSocial forums or on chat (irc://irc.freenode.net/opensocial).

Orginal post by A Googler