Blog post here:
http://en.blog.orkut.com/2008/01/orkut-at-4.html

Birthday logo:
https://img1.orkut.com/img/doodle/orkut_birthday_2008.png

<< You may have noticed that the orkut logo looked a little different when you signed in today – and if the four candles on the cake didn't give it away already, it's our fourth birthday. That's right, 4/5ths of a decade ago, orkut launched. >>

Erm, isn't 4/5th of a decade 8 years?

I thought so too.

<< Erm, isn't 4/5th of a decade 8 years? >>

Lol well spotted – quite funny considering they tried to be clever.

for me http://blog.orkut.com/ is working but http://en.blog.orkut.com/ is not

http://www.google.com/search?q=4%2F5+of+a+decade

On the Portuguese version of the blog, it's "2/5th of a decade". There is a typo in the English translation.

It didn't say that earlier. They must have just changed it in the last hour or two! (They've updated the English version too now.)

Check this, you'll see it in the snippets:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:blog.orkut.com+%22it%27s+our+fourth+birthday%22+OR+%22hoje+%C3%A9+o+nosso+quarto+anivers%C3%A1rio%22&filter=0

I alerted blog post author Natalie of this thread and she said yikes, and that she'd change it...

It's been changed. Crisis averted :)

Familiar from somewhere?
http://aycu13.webshots.com/image/43012/2004992458797853304_rs.jpg

(Yes it's from Google Talk..)

Google is running short on designers?!

And if i'm not mistaken, the confetti is taken from the 2008 logo:
(Or at least some of it)

http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-logo-january-2008.png

(The upper confetti)

Only four years old? That cheers me up. Maybe in another four years' time it will be radically improved and everyone will be using it – including me – and not just Brazilians.

I just get depressed every time I feel forced to use something online not by Google. Facebook, for instance . . .

It makes me sad that Facebook looks and feels more "Googley" than Orkut. Orkut sucks.

Good pick David!

Thanks Tom..

I just knew i saw these balloons somewhere..

I just post an article on Zorgloob about it, thanks again.
PS: the colors of the hat have been doctored.

Yeah i know...
But it's the same hat... :/

(Well, at least they did something)

BTW,
Can you provide a link Tom? :)

I am not Tom, but ehh, here's the link :)
http://www.zorgloob.com/2008/01/comment-crer-un-logo-google.asp

Thanks :)

Excellent article Tom! :D

oh oh, look that:
http://www.google.com/logos/5th_birthday.gif

(via Frère Jacques)

Yeah i saw it too in the comments.