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How Was Orkut Formed ?

February 2, 2010 By Praveen 1 Comment



The True Story Behind Orkut….

Name:Orkut Buyukkokten
Born: 6th Feb 1976 in Konya,Turkey
Current Residene: Mountain View,California

Orkut Buyukkokten 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 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…
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 dollar profit in its first year, which we today know as Orkut.

Some Cool Facts About 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 everytime you view ur friend’s friend-list.

FATHER OF ORKUT–Buyukkokten
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=29084748

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Comments

  1. Arun says

    February 4, 2010 at 1:28 pm

    ya it is real story…

    But this agreement is still going on with GOOGLE or not…

    Reply

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