Looks like within few months Orkut will add all features of Facebook. Latest is the status update feature that can be updated by clicking  profile and typing whatever you want to appear as your status in the box right below your name.

Source: Orkut blog 

Now you can add comments in your friend’s photo album like in Facebook or LinkedIn.

Orkut has recently added one of the biggest privacy feature that enables users to make their scrapbook visible to persons in contact list only.

Orkut team is constantly adding some new feature to retain its users and to give some competition to growing popularity of Facebook. Just couple of months backs they changed the looks of the interface panel, added “Ask a friend” option and enhanced user’s privacy. Extending this impressive list now Orkut has added “Scrap Notification” feature.