Thursday, December 17, 2009
Orkut Buyukkokten, born on Feb 6, 1975 in Konya, Turkey is a software engineer. He holds a BSC degree in computer Engineering and Information Science and later earned PH.D. in computer science from Stanford university. He is the man who created Orkut, the largest and biggest social networking site.
Orkut started working with Google in 2002. And later he developed Orkut.com as his 20% independent project. Orkut Buyukkokten worked very hard to make it real and user friendly. This effort from this young, dynamic engineer made Orkut successful, in no time.
Few time later Affinity Engines, a software company filed a legal suite against Orkut Buyukkokten and Google saying that they copied their source code to develop Orkut. It was a huge controversy at that time.
Being the founder and creator of Orkut, he holds the first user ID on Orkut.
