Sunday, August 2, 2009

THE MAKING OF ORKUT Cool Facts about Orkut


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, 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...

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 dollars 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 about this guy:

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He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.

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He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.

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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.

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He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.

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He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.

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He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.

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He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.

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He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.

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He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.

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He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.

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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.

' WOW!!!




Happy ORKUTTING

THE MAKING OF ORKUT


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