Orkut Buyukkokten
Orkut Buyukkokten is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service called Orkut.
He developed Orkut as an independent project while working at Google.
He born in February 6, 1975.
Originally from Konya, Turkey, Buyukkokten obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara.
He received both a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
His research at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient PDA usage.
Orkut has been building and working on online communities since 2000. He introduced his first social network, named Club Nexus at Stanford in the fall of 2001. Club Nexus was the first college-specific social network.
Students could use Club Nexus to send e-mail and invitations, chat, post events, buy and sell used goods, search for people with similar interests, place personals, display their artwork or post editorial columns.
After joining Google, Orkut decided to use his 20% time to develop a social network.
He said: "My dream was to connect all the Internet users so they can relate to each other, it can make such a difference in people's lives." The product manager and Marissa Mayer thought of naming the service after its creator. "Orkut.com" belonged to Orkut Buyukkokten himself.
Google convinced him, and its social networking service was called Orkut.
On the other side, the entry of the Facebook crashed down the popularity of orkut.
Facebook is a great deal professional looking networking website where as Orkut looks to some extent unfinished and the themes make it cartoonish.
In Facebook everything is closely integrated in the home page from messaging, to friends update, invites, status update, news feed, links, suggestions, highlights, requests, chat, events and Etc where as in Orkut everything is limply coupled which made it less likable compared to Facebook.
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