Here I received few facts about the person behind orkut. Dont miss to read the last one which I found after searching on net.
This is the mastermind behind Orkut social networking community.
Some facts about Orkut:
1) Orkut Buyukkokten(the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when every person registers to this website.
2) He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
3) He gets $8 when your friend’s friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as a friend in the resulting chain.
4) He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
5) He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
6) He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
7) He gets $2 when you become somebody’s fan.
8) He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
9) He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
10) He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
11) 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.
12) Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might become the
richest-person in the world by the end of 2009.
13) Finally, this is the best fact. This person has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 assistants to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps a day.
14) A company named Affinity Engines that builds social networking products for universities (that just so happens to have been founded by Orkut Buyukkokten – the creator of orkut.com – quite interesting) is now suing Google for stealing their code – Company Claims Orkut Stole Orkut Code
Just wondering – where did you find it?
Just regular surfing:)
Who pays him (orkut’s founder) this money?? is it google?? But if it is so, i havent found any ads spce on orkut which they might be utilising…
@anonymous
Yes it is Google.
It is all about getting users signed up, scraps, invitations, fans, testimonials etc. Nothing about ads.
This whole money stuff sounds unbelievable. Looks like a hoax or hype.
Well common sense says…thats all bull shit.
hi nitesh…
i know this blog was writen like 2yrs back…n a response to it now seems too far from ur thought process at that time…but i really think that u wer crappin… all the $5 for this $99 for that sounds dumb…wher in the world di u get it from???
ther no ads in orkut n its a non profit kinda thingy… wat it thing their r doin tough is collectin all the ids…now that database is like gold for many!!!