Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Orkut origin

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 girlfriend 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 and 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 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 be the richest person by 2009 . ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook and 8 to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20 ,000 friend requests a day