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If I were Al Gore, then I'd have given the epithet 'e-oxygen' to Internet. His contribution to the jargon world was an insipid tag - 'Information Superhighway'. Anyways, owing to my low socialising in this virtual world, I got introduced to some popular places pretty late. One such popular place is called Orkut. Though, I'm still a backbencher in Orkut, I have spent a few hours trying to understand what makes it what it is. And here's what I want to share with you:
1) Orkut is the world's eighth most popular website. And NO, it is not primarily because of us Indian IT folks. It is more because of Brazilians. In Brazil, it is almost a religion/cult.
2) The profile I found most interesting in Orkut is this. It is of a Turkish guy named Orkut Büyükkökten (God Bless Copy+Paste), the creator of Orkut. Here you can see some of his scraps dated in 2003, a year before Orkut was even officially released.
3) Orkut Büyükkökten is a Google employee. In Google, there's an amazing funda that employees can work 20% of their time on anything they like or have passion for. And Orkut is a result of that. Isn't that really cool? I really admire and envy their free reins to creativity.
End of Useless trivia. Let’s get back to work.
If I were Al Gore, then I'd have given the epithet 'e-oxygen' to Internet. His contribution to the jargon world was an insipid tag - 'Information Superhighway'. Anyways, owing to my low socialising in this virtual world, I got introduced to some popular places pretty late. One such popular place is called Orkut. Though, I'm still a backbencher in Orkut, I have spent a few hours trying to understand what makes it what it is. And here's what I want to share with you:
1) Orkut is the world's eighth most popular website. And NO, it is not primarily because of us Indian IT folks. It is more because of Brazilians. In Brazil, it is almost a religion/cult.
2) The profile I found most interesting in Orkut is this. It is of a Turkish guy named Orkut Büyükkökten (God Bless Copy+Paste), the creator of Orkut. Here you can see some of his scraps dated in 2003, a year before Orkut was even officially released.
3) Orkut Büyükkökten is a Google employee. In Google, there's an amazing funda that employees can work 20% of their time on anything they like or have passion for. And Orkut is a result of that. Isn't that really cool? I really admire and envy their free reins to creativity.
End of Useless trivia. Let’s get back to work.
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