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I’m an optimist. I believe in the power of connection to change the world. I believe that the world is a better place when we get to know each other a little bit more. It’s why I created the world's first social network when I was a grad student at Stanford.
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I’m Orkut. Seventeen years ago I started a little social...
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Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Orkut was one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008.
Jul 4, 2020 · Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish programming engineer, created it as an autonomous undertaking while at the same time working at Google. While already working for Affinity Engines, he had built up a comparative framework, InCircle, planned for use by college graduated class gatherings.
Jun 30, 2014 · On Monday, Google announced the end of its first foray into social networking, Orkut. September 30, 2014 will be the 10-year-old network’s final day. ReadWrite has been covering underdog Orkut ...
Orkut was one of the first social media services, but it was discontinued in 2014 due to limited user engagement and competition from Facebook. Learn about its features, causes of failure, and how it compared to Google+.
Jun 30, 2014 · Google will shut Orkut down at the end of September, the company said Monday in a blog post. Users can export their profiles and other information using Google Takeout until then.
Jun 30, 2014 · She saw Orkut as a small startup within Google, operating autonomously to prove that a single engineer with a new idea could build and test a product without enduring the delays of Google’s ...
