Orkut changing to Socialstream

There's a huge news for all Orkut enthusiasts. Now whether it is good or bad, that decision rests upon individual users. The thing is - google is working on completely renovating the user experience on Orkut. In fact, the project's scope is not to simply redesign the interface but “rethink and reinvent online social networking.” The project goal is to “create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks.” The project is codenamed SocialStream. Below is the screenshot of it's homepage.



Several new and exciting features are going to be added here. Such as -

• All your contacts in one place
• Know when your contacts post new updates
• Discover what's important with an interactive visualization
• Browse by contact
• Sharing Without Barriers
• Different levels of sharing
• Track viewers of content and new comments.

Check the snapshots below - [ continued in Full Post ]

Check the details of these and other features at the official site here.

Now, as far as my view is concerned, the UI looks good and the features are promising. But we are now so much used to the Orkut UI that sudden migration to this new UI will bewilder us for sometime. But once we're used to this change, I'm sure it's gonna take our concept of Social Networking to a new level.