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) Russia. According to SimilarWeb, VK is the 9th most visited website in the world. As of March 2018, VK also ranked as the most popular social networking website in Belarus and Kazakhstan in addition to Russia. VKontakte was incorporated on 19 January 2007 as a Russian limited liability company. Founder Pavel Durov launched VKontakte for beta testing in September 2006, shortly after his graduation from St Petersburg State University. The following month, the domain name "vkontakte.ru" was registered. User registration was initially limited to within university circles exclusively by invitation, but the site still grew quickly. In February 2007 the