Information Technology

This is the mastermind behind Orkut social networking community. Some facts about Orkut:   1) Orkut Buyukkokten(the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when every person registers to this website. 2) He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend. 3) He gets $8 when your friend’s friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as a friend in the resulting chain. 4) He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you. 5) He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut. 6) He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list. 7) He gets $2 when you become somebody’s fan. 8) He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan. 9) He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut. 10) He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph. 11) He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend’s scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend’s friend-list. 12) Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might be...

  It seems everyone is social networking. Or are they? When you’re in the world of marketing — reading about it, planning campaigns, researching people — it’s sometimes easy to overlook the basics. So we started our study by simply asking ‘do you know what online social networking is?’. And that’s where our first myth was debunked. It turns out social networking is not taking over the world. Across the 17 markets surveyed, 42% of people know what online social networking is, which leaves 58% in the dark… either saying ‘no’ or ‘don’t know’. The Dutch were most likely to know the term with 89% answering ‘yes’, followed by Japan at 71% and Americans with 70% answering in the affirmative. Still, that leaves three in every ten Americans (the home of social networking) outside the world of digital friends and relationships. Synovate’s Senior Vice President of the US-based Consumer Insights group, Bob Michaels, says, “While a majority of Americans have access to computers there are still ...