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Orkut Büyükkökten (born February 6, 1975) is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking services Club Nexus, inCircle and Orkut. Orkut Büyükkökten is a former product manager at Google.
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- Google—Early Days
- Orkut.Com—From 20 Percent to 100 Percent Project
- Orkut.Com—Scaling Up
- Growth Formula
- The Lawsuit
- The Sudden ‘Rush’ of Finnish Users
Orkut was born in Turkey but spent his early years in Germany with his parents moving there when he was one year old. They returned to Turkey when he was in the second standard. He now spoke with a German accent. He started coding (in BASIC) when he was in the fourth standard. In high school, Orkut was bullied by a group of three boys. He says, Yea...
Orkut’s thesis at Stanford was on efficient web browsing on handheld devices. He explains, In the case of large paragraphs, a summary has to be created. That requires a lot of thinking and algorithms and tech summarisation. Similarly, if a page has a lot of links on it, one has to make it easy to navigate. If the web page has images, it has to be m...
At Stanford, Orkut interacted more with undergraduate students than graduate students. In the fall of 2001, he launched Club Nexus, a social network for Stanford students and got a good response from undergraduate students. After its launch at a party, students flocked to register and shared emails of friends to invite them later. The launch also h...
In his final year, Orkut was busy wrapping up his degree and writing his thesis. When he started getting job offers, two out of them stood out—one from Google and the other from Microsoft. Microsoft wanted him to work on their tablet team (given his experience and research with small/handheld devices). However, Orkut found Google a lot more excitin...
In 2002, Orkut joined Google’s engineering team as a front-end developer and worked on the code base that rendered the web pages. Orkut believes that if you have hundreds of millions of users, then any small change has a huge impact. He says, “That's a great thing for companies like Google because you know that you're making a change and affecting ...
With orkut.com, Orkut wanted to create a global community to connect people with different needs. Orkut.com had three profiles for users: 1. Generic profile 2. Professional profile 3. Dating profile He wanted orkut.com to be fun and uplifting. He says, "If you look at the design, colour choices, icons, it had a very light feel to it. I used differe...
Orkut.com used AdSense for monetisation. The website’s biggest challenge was scaling. He says, During that transition, a lot of user base in the US left orkut.com. However, they kept growing internationally in countries like Estonia, Brazil, and India.
Orkut thinks there's no secret sauce or formula to succeed in any country, because if there was one then one could just replicate it, make it viral, and take over the world. According to Orkut, orkut.com gave a sense of togetherness and connectedness among the community (of its users). He recalls one case thus, He believes that his friend might be ...
In 2002, Orkut launched a company, Affinity Engines, to commercialise inCircle and Club Nexus. He along with Google were sued by Affinity Engines in 2004 for trade secret misappropriation. Affinity Engines claimed that Orkut and Google had stolen Affinity Engines' code to launch the "orkut.com" social networking service at Google. The lawsuit was s...
Orkut has different meanings in different languages. In Turkish, it means ‘happy city’ while in Finnish, it means ‘multiple orgasms in a row’. When orkut.com was launched, the team was pleasantly surprised to see a flood of users from Finland signing up. Orkut recalls, “We didn't have any clue then. It turns out that they thought orkut.com to mean ...
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Apr 28, 2022 · As reported by Forbes Brazil, speculation has been prompted by the apparent reactivation of orkut.com, along with a message seemingly from Orkut Büyükkökten himself. In the statement, Büyükkökten reflects with pride on the social network’s past, as a community of “diverse voices… where hate and disinformation were not tolerated.
Hello, stylized as hello, was a social networking service founded by Orkut Büyükkökten, the creator of Orkut. The service used to support access via a mobile app and was available for Android and iOS. It was launched May 1, 2016, as a replacement to Orkut, which was shut down on September 30, 2014. Hello is owned by Hello Network.
Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer, developed it as an independent project while working at Google. While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, InCircle, intended for use by university alumni groups.
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