A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident... but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up and became IT technical architect in his late 20's, achievement in itself!!
He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his gf through the web...
Things went as planned... and 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 dollars profit in its first year, which we today know as ORKUT.
The guy's name is Orkut Büyükkökten Yes it's 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 Büyükkökten 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 about this guy:
He gets $12 from 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 your friend's friend-list.
Orkut Buyukkokten celebrate Five Year of Existence
Two of the biggest social networks are celebrating. Celebrating five years of its existence as a meeting point for users worldwide.
Orkut was launched officially on January 24 2004 by Google engineer Orkut Buyukkokten, hence the name of this network. Was one of the first social networks in the market and soon achieved great success among the first bloggers.
At first, the network could be accessed only through an invitation which led to greater interest among the first users to get any of them.The rapid success of Orkut took the "early adopters" to leave quickly and try out new networks. MySpace began to attract attention and when the time was an almost unknown phenmenon.
MySpace precisely aimed more directly at the "user" which was directed Orkut as the force that was taking Facebook among U.S. community college andalusia ostracism led to this network. Only Brazil withstood the force of the new social networks becoming the country with the largest number of subscribers and also with the wider community.
