Orkut were other social networking sites including Myspace and Facebook. Ning was a more direct competitor, as it allowed for the creation of social networks similar to Orkut's "communities". An Orkut user was also able to add videos to their profile from either YouTube or Google Video with the additional option of creating either restricted or unrestricted polls for polling a community of users. There was at one point an option to integrate GTalk with Orkut, enabling chat and file sharing. Similar to Facebook, users could also use a "like" button to share interests with friends. Users could also change their
VK (service) project in 2017. Only active projects with an earnings model could submit applications. 327 grant applications were received buy only 67 of them passed the initial screening. The total prize pool was 2.5 million rubles. The first VK Cup, a programming championship for young programmers aged 13–23, was held on 16 July 2012 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. VK and Codeforces co-organized the second VK Cup programming championship, which took place from 24 July to 27 July 2015. The winners received a total of 1,048,576 rubles (an amount related to round binary numbers). The third VK Cup took place from 1