Who is 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...

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 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:

* 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.

Happy ORKUTTING

THE MAKING OF ORKUT

Note: I got this information in a mail. Then I searched for the same on the Web and found the same. I don't know if the above information is 100% correct or not but most of it is correct.