Orkut Büyükkökten

Orkut Büyükkökten

Büyükkökten in 2015
Born (1975-02-06) February 6, 1975
Turkey
Occupation Product Manager
Years active 1987– present

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.[1]

Career

Originally from Konya, Turkey, Büyükkökten obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara. He received both a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient PDA usage.

He has been building and working on online communities since 2000. He introduced his first social network, named Club Nexus[2] at Stanford in the fall of 2001. Club Nexus was the first college-specific social network.[3] It was a system built to serve the networking and communication needs of the Stanford online community. Students could use Club Nexus to send e-mail and invitations, chat, post events, buy and sell used goods, search for people with similar interests, place personals, display their artwork or post editorial columns. Within a few months of its introduction, Club Nexus attracted over 2,000 undergraduates.

Later, Büyükkökten introduced an alumni social network, named inCircle for the Stanford Alumni Association intended for use by university alumni groups.

After joining Google, he decided to use his 20% time to develop a social networking service. He said: "My dream was to connect all the Internet users so they can relate to each other, it can make such a difference in people's lives." The product manager and Marissa Mayer thought of naming the service after its creator. "Orkut.com" belonged to Orkut Büyükkökten himself. Google convinced him, and its social networking service was called Orkut.[4]

In 2016, he launched a new social networking service, Hello.[5]

Publications

Conference Publications

Workshop Publications

Journal Papers

References

  1. ↑ Jesse Lichtenstein (2004-03-24). "The Wired World The Real Orkut". The New Yorker.
  2. ↑ "A social network caught in the Web". First Monday. 2003-06-02.
  3. ↑ David Kirkpatrick (2010-06-08). The Facebook Effect. p. 79.
  4. ↑ Steven Levy (2011-04-12). In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.
  5. ↑ "Orkut founder launches Hello". venturebeat. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Seeing the Whole in Parts: Text Summarization for Web Browsing on Handheld Devices". 2001-05-01.
  7. ↑ "Efficient Web Form Entry on PDAs". 2001-05-01.
  8. ↑ "Accordion Summarization for End-Game Browsing on PDAs and Cellular Phones" (PDF). 2001.
  9. ↑ "Focused Web Searching with PDAs". 2000.
  10. ↑ "Power Browser: Efficient Web Browsing for PDAs" (PDF). 2000-04-01.
  11. ↑ "Efficient Query Subscription Processing in a Multicast Environment". 2000-02-29.
  12. ↑ "Text Summarization of Web pages on Handheld Devices" (PDF). June 2001.
  13. ↑ "Exploiting geographical location information of web pages" (PDF). June 1999.
  14. ↑ "Efficient Web Browsing on Handheld Devices using Page and Form Summarization" (PDF). January 2002.
  15. ↑ "Empirical Bi-action Tables: a Tool for the Evaluation and Optimization of Text Input Systems, Application I: Stylus Keyboards" (PDF). 2002.
  16. ↑ "Query Merging: Improving Query Subscription Processing in a Multicast Environment" (PDF). 2003.
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