How was ORKUT formed?

Orkut is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google Inc. The service is designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten.

 

Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil. In fact, as of December 2009, 51.09% of Orkut's users are from Brazil, followed by India with 20.02% and United States with 17.28%.

 

Originally hosted in California, in August 2008 Google announced that Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues.

 

As of January 2010, Alexa traffic ranked Orkut 70th in the world, the website currently has more than 100 million active users worldwide.

 

  

The True Story Behind Orkut!

 

Name: Orkut Buyukkokten

Born: 6th Feb 1976 in Konya, Turkey

Current Residence: Mountain View, California

 

Orkut Buyukkokten lost his girlfriend in a train accident. But the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up and became IT technical architect in his late 20's, achievemnt in itself!!.

 

He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his girlfriend through the web. Things went as planned. And he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years.

 

It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a word with this guy and took over this application, This Software made a whopping 1 Billion dollar profit in its first year, which we today know as Orkut.

Some Cool Facts About This Guy:

 

• He gets $12 frm Google when every person registers to this website.
• He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
• He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.
• He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
• He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
• He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
• He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.
• He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
• He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
• He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
• He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 everytime you view ur friend's friend-list.

 

Links:

Father of Orkut Community

Orkut Buyukkokten's Home Page

Orkut Social Networking Homepage

Know More about Orkut Here

 

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People Hopper: Face Morphing Software from Orkut. Give A Try!!

People Hopper is a new application for Orkut that lets you take your profile image and 'morph' it into your friend's–using publicly available images from other Orkut users along the way. It is a fun app that also allows you to make new connections–since the images that show in your Hopper all come from people who have chosen to make their profiles public, you can click through to learn more about them and reach out to them. You can also morph one friend into another. No computer graphics are used to generate the path.

How can I access the People Hopper gadget?

To be able to use People Hopper, one needs to have an Orkut account. If you don't already have one, create a new account here. Then, you can add the gadget by clicking on "add apps" under the "more" menu, or simply click here to: People Hopper

How to use?

The gadget starts with loading and displaying your friends images on the page. It shows two target boxes displaying "drag a friend here". One can drag a friend's picture in any of these two targets. Once there is an image in each of these boxes, the gadget returns the best path which transitions one face into another smoothly. Each face along the path comes from a Orkut user's public profile image. One can click on any of these path images and go to the profile of that person.

How does it work?

To generate a 'morph', People Hopper uses image matching technology. First, faces are automatically detected in public profile images and normalized for improved contrast and size. Then, for each image, we find other publicly available profile images that are similar to one another. Then, when you pick a friend you want to be your end match, we just hop along similar public images, step-by-step, until the connection is made! You can think of it as an image graph between friends, similar to the friendship graph already on Orkut. We don't use any face-specific features or metrics during this process. It is just a simple matching to find similar pictures.

Though other orkut user reported that this application is not working into their account but it seems to be working fine for my Orkut profile. Note: I tested this on Opera browser.

Have you tried this face morphing application yet? Do let me know if this is working for you or not.

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Android is a mobile operating system using the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by Android Inc., a firm later purchased by Google, and lately by the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.

The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 47 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software and open source license.

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