Man Who Created Orkut
Orkut was launched on November 17, 2002 by the Google. It was the brainchild of Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer, who developed it as an independent project while working at Google.He developed Orkut as an independent project (all employees at Google can [Orkut Buyukkokten] spend 20% of their time working on personal interests)
Orkut Buyukkokten is a software engineer and product manager at Google. Originally from the Turkish city of Konya, Büyükkökten obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient PDA usage. He has been building and working on online communities these past [Homepage at Stanford] years. His interests include social networks, interface design and mobile applications. While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, InCircle, intended for use by university alumni groups.
His dream (visit his homepage at Stanford) was to "experience all the wildest things in life and never look back or regret about anything." Most of us will agree that he has somewhat achieved it.
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