Orkut History

Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google, the search engine company. Orkut
Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer, developed it as an independent project while
working at Google (permitted by its policy). Some discomfort with this exists among users and
potential users of orkut, especially since Google's other noteworthy product of 2004, he Web-based email client Gmail, allows the company to automatically scan the text of users' private emails in order to target ads toward them. Read More...

While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, InCircle,
intended for use by university alumni groups. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit
against Google, claiming that Büyükkökten and Google based orkut on inCircle code. The
allegation is based on the presence of 9 dentical bugs in orkut that also exist in
InCircle.
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Creator Of Orkut

Here's the Link to His Profile :
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=325082930226142255
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Orkut's First Community :
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=1
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