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Orkut -- A success 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 everytime you view ur friend's friend-list.
HIS OWN HOMEPAGE ::::
http://www.stanford.edu/~orkut/
As Per WikiPedia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkk%C3%B6kten ], why would they pay this much money to their own employee who worked on company’s time to create it over a thing [Affinity Engines] already in existence… interesting is the fact that Affinity Engines has filed a suit on Google [ http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,64046,00.html ] for using their codebase!
I would like to ask one thing that, from where did you collect the money details....?
I don't think so its gonna real
for scraping $4 , uploading photo $200, if yes then google might have closed now and this fellow might be the richest fellow in this planet.
So please give us the source of information.
You get proper information from here
As Per WikiPedia,
Orkut Büyükkökten is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service called Orkut while working at Google. He developed Orkut as an independent project while working at Google, the outgrowth of a company policy whereby all employees at Google can spend 20% of their time working on personal interests. Google follows the principle where each employee can divide his time in 70:20:10. 70% on his/her core business, 20% on matters of their interest but related to Google's core business of search and 10% time on absolutely anything.
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 Büyükkökten 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.
Originally from the Turkish city of Konya, Büyükkökten obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient PDA usage.
Please dont spread hoaxs
I have seen this message on several account in orkut.
I am still wondering authenticity of this story.
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