Social Networking
Origin of orkut – Inspiring love story
A guy was traveling with his girlfriend in the train. Train meets with an accident. This guy searched his girlfriend everywhere but in vain. This guy grew up to become an IT technical architect. He hired many IT developers so that he can develop a software with them while will help him to find his girlfriend through the web. As thought, he was able to find her after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years. While, he was deciding to shut down his search operation, the CEO of Google met him and took over the application. The application was able to make a profit of 1billion dollar in the first year. This software made a whooping profit of 1 billion in its first year. The name of the software is known as orkut.
The name of the guy is orkut Buyukkokten. He gets a large amount from Google. He will become one of the richest men by 2009. Some more interesting facts about this guy are whenever a person opens an account in Orkut he gets $12 from google and when you add somebody in your friend’s list he gets $10. For even small things he gets paid. Google pays him as follow: $5 if you scrap someone and $4 when someone scraps you. For loading each photograph he gets $200. When you become someone’s fan he gets $2 and when someone becomes your fan he is paid $1.5. When you logout of orkut he is paid $1. He gets $0.5 each if you change your profile photograph or when you read your friend’s scrap-book or when you visit your friend’s friend list.