All for Love!
A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....
But the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list.
This guy went on to become an IT technical architect in his late 20s,an achievement in itself!!
He hired developers from the whole globe and planned 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
Today we know it as ORKUT.
The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN Yes its named after him. 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 & 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.
WOW!!!
oh,well....anywayz this guy's making a lot of money.and quite soon he'll be opening a bank fo his own,i guess! :-D
Keep smiling!
Saggi!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkk%C3%B6kten
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"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done." - Holmes
saggi the funny thing about this story is this..the guy thought he lost his gf in a train accident, but her name never showed up on the list of deceased people...i mean where the hell was she for all these years?? dont you think that if she was alive she'd want to let her "boyfriend" know? plus orkut wasnt his software creation it was done by other developers, so basically what this guys has done is NOTHING. All for love?? i think not..All the Luck is more like it.
Good Fortune always comes knocking at your door...when you are sh*tting in the toilet!! :)
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FB is good,i agree.but the umpteen number of applications and messy homepage bugs me big-time.at least orkut remains clean.
and about him earning money while you have a social life....well,call it plain luck! :-P LOL....
Keep smiling!
Saggi!
that's his gurl in the blue gown.....
Keep smiling!
Saggi!
saggie i've been a member for around 2 and half years i think...trust me it gets old and boring, i like facebook now :) So mr. Orkut if you'll be so kind enough to make a cheque of just 1 million dollars i'll be happy to close down my account. I wonder if i can sue him...u know getting money from me without me knowing it...isnt that robbery? If i knew he was getting paid for me having a social life...like hell!! some people i tell u
Good Fortune always comes knocking at your door...when you are sh*tting in the toilet!! :)
_[]~SMoKE~[]_
so did he find his GF yet? :P
[img_assist|nid=12867|link=none|align=left|width=|height=0]Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
i don't think he'll ever be the richest guy..
mark zuckerberg's developer of facebook) net worth is around $1.5billion.. but anyway, that orkut guy is just so lucky! :))
cheers,
paul
awww,c'mon sweet'art!it ain't all that bad.....it's fun once you get the hang of it.i've been a member since 2005! :-) 3 years and still going strong!
Keep smiling!
Saggi!
so did i!he owes me a lot for adding tens of thousands of dollars to his fortune!LOL....
Keep smiling!
Saggi!
hmmm just another man who's sitting down getting rich on OUR money...btw orkut sucks now i'm glad i havent contributed any more money to this A-holes bank balance.
Good Fortune always comes knocking at your door...when you are sh*tting in the toilet!! :)
_[]~SMoKE~[]_
.you loose some, you gain some....
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Me too contributed to his kitty........