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I’m Orkut. Seventeen years ago I started a little social network while I was an engineer at Google. In just a few years, that social network - orkut.com - grew to a community of over 300 million people. I believe that orkut.com found a community because it brought so many diverse voices from around the world together in one place.
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. [1] Orkut was one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008.
Orkut Büyükkökten (born February 6, 1975) is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking services Club Nexus, inCircle and Orkut. Orkut Büyükkökten is a former product manager at Google .
In Orkut, the user privacy concerns were neglected and stagnant. The platform allowed anyone to view anyone’s profile and his contact information (if it was added by the user), unless the person was on a person’s ignore list. This made many people move to Facebook which appeared to be a safer platform for them.
Like other social networking Web sites, orkut includes features for sharing your own interests and activities: Upload photos and videos. Promote things you like, including YouTube videos. Keep a scrapbook, similar to a blog, with each "scrap" including your post, and maybe a photo.
Orkut was a long-range interpersonal communication site possessed and worked by Google. The administration was intended to assist users with meeting new and old companions and keep up their existing connections. The site was named after its designer, Google representative Orkut Büyükkökten. Orkut was one of the most visited sites in India and Brazil in …
Orkut – named after its creator Orkut Büyükkökten - was one of the first social media services out there. It came out even before Facebook did! It provided users with some well-known options - having an account, adding friends, sharing activities, pictures, or videos, sending personal messages, etc.
Orkut was a free social networking service owned and managed by Google. It was designed to help users discover new friends and maintain existing relationships. It has been followed up by hello, another social media network built by the same publisher as Orkut.
Orkut helped shape life online before people really knew what “social networking” was. Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell (or, tchau).
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