Orkut Buyukkokten !
Orkut Buyukkokten (February 6, 1975 in Konya, Turkey) is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service Orkut.
Originally from Konya-Turkey, Buyukkokten 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.
Buyukkokten started working at Google in 2002 and is one of its top employees
He developed Orkut.com, the 3rd largest social network in the world, as a 20% independent project while working at Google. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that Büyükkökten and Google based Orkut.com on code for InCircle, an application intended for university alumni groups. The allegation is based on the alleged presence of nine identical bugs in Orkut.com and in InCircle
Orkut is one of the most popular networking websites in Brazil and India. Orkut is also one of he most popular websites in Pakistan, China and Estonia.
Orkut was launched on January 24, 2004 by Google as an independent project of Orkut Büyükkökten .The community membership was originally by invitation only. Orkut's explanation for invitation:
" Orkut is unique, because it's an organically growing network of trusted friends. That way we won't grow too large, too quickly and everyone will have at least one person to vouch for them. If you know someone who is a member of Orkut, that person can invite you to join as well. If you don't know an Orkut member, wait a bit and most likely you soon will. We look forward to having you as part of the Orkut community."
