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Title: The True Orkut Story Post by: Tina on November 17, 2006, 01:24:53 AM The True Story....
A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident.... but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20's, achievemnt in itself!!. He hired devlopers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his gf through the web... Things went as planned... n he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!! It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a word with this guy n took over this application, This Software made a whopping 1 billion dolar profit in its first year, which we today know as ORKUT. The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN. Yes its named after him only. Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping. He is expected to b the richest person by 2009. ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!!! Some other Cool Facts abt this guy: * He gets $12 frm Google when every person registers to this website. * He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend. * He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain. * He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you. * He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut. * He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list. * He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan. * He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan. * He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut. * He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph. * He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view ur friend's friend-list. Title: Re: The True Orkut Story Post by: Admin on November 18, 2006, 09:17:14 PM dats cool
Title: Re: The True Orkut Story Post by: Vatsal on November 23, 2006, 01:11:10 AM Link to his profile http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=325082930226142255
Title: Re: The True Orkut Story Post by: Taruna on December 09, 2006, 01:26:26 AM gr8!! hats off to him!
Title: Re: The True Orkut Story Post by: bitspat on December 09, 2006, 10:15:25 AM great... it's really good to know about it..
Title: Re: The True Orkut Story Post by: Khushi on January 02, 2007, 11:55:32 AM History Of Orkut
Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google, the search engine company. Orkut B?y?kk?kten, a Turkish software engineer, developed it as an independent project while working at Google (permitted by its policy). Some discomfort with this exists among users and potential users of orkut, especially since Google's other noteworthy product of 2004, the Web-based email client Gmail, allows the company to automatically scan the text of users' private emails in order to target ads toward them. While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, InCircle, intended for use by university alumni groups. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that B?y?kk?kten and Google based orkut on inCircle code. The allegation is based on the presence of 9 identical bugs in orkut that also exist in InCircle. Here's the Link to His Profile : http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=325082930226142255 Title: Re: The True Orkut Story Post by: Khushi on January 02, 2007, 12:43:57 PM Orkut Creator in Google Dance
(http://www.google.com/googledance2005/demos/demo07.jpg) Title: Re: The True Orkut Story Post by: Mark David on February 20, 2007, 03:07:02 PM gud 2 kno abt it!!!
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