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2. Topic
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3. Group Introduction
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 Waleed Anwar
 Roll No. 12-EE-40
 Group 2nd
 E-Mail:
waleedanwar52@yahoo.com
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4. Group Introduction
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 Ali Hamza
 Roll No. 12-EE-23
 Group: 2nd
 Email:
ali.hamza688@yahoo.com
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5. Group Introduction
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 Atiq Ur Rasheed
 Roll No. 12-EE-22
 Group: 2nd
 E-Mail:
ateeqmalik64@yahoo.com
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6. Group Introduction
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 Abdul Shakoor
 Roll No. 12-EE-34
 Group: 2nd
 E-Mail:
abdulshakoor681@ymail.com
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7. Group Introduction
 Basit Ali
 Roll No. 12-EE-18
 Group 2nd
 E-mail: basitalich@yahoo.com
 Cell# +923145451774
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8. The University of Poonch Rawalakot
 Introduction
 Features
 Orkut wall
 Orkut inventor
 User rating
 History
 Ranking
 My orkut account
 My orkut profile
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9. INVENTER OF ORKUT
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 Orkut Büyükkökten
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10. Introduction
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 Orkut is a social networking website that is owned
and operated by Google .
 The service is designed to help users meet new and
old friends and maintain existing relationships.
 The website is named after its creator, Google
employee Orkut Büyükkökten.
 Although Orkut is less popular in the United States
than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of
the most visited websites in India and Brazil.
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 Originally hosted in California, in August 2008
Google announced that Orkut would be fully
managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in
the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to
the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal
issues.
Introduction (Conti……..)
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12. Features
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 An Orkut user can also add videos to their profile
from either YouTube or Google Video with the
additional option of creating either restricted or
unrestricted polls for polling a community of
users.
 There is an option to integrate GTalk (An instant
messenger from Google) with Orkut enabling
chatting and file sharing. Currently GTalk has
been integrated in Orkut – users can directly chat
from their Orkut page.
 Similar to Facebook, users may also use a "like"
button to share interests with friends
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13.  As of October 2012, Alexa traffic ranked the web
site currently has over 33 million active users
worldwide.
 As of October 2011, 59.1% of Orkut's users are from
Brazil, followed by India with 27.1% and Japan
with 6.7%.
User Rating
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14. History
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 Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004
by Google.
 Orkut Büyükökten, a Turkish software engineer,
developed it as an independent project while
working at Google.
 By August 30, 2007, most users on Orkut could
see changes on their profile pages as per the new
redesign
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15. History(conti…)
 On June 2, 2008, Orkut has launched its theming
engine with a small set of default themes. Photo
tagging also was available.
 These users were able to send invites to their Orkut
friends to join this new version
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16. Intersting History Story
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 A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....
 but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list.
 This guy grew up n became IT technical architect in
his late 20?s, achievement in itself!!.
 He hired developers from the whole globe and plan
to make a software where he could search for his gf
through the web..
 Things went as planned...
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17. History
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 and he found her, after losing millions of dollars and
3 long years!!
 It was time to shut down the search operation, when
the CEO of Google had a word with this guy n took
over this application.
 This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars
profit in its first year,
 which we today know as ORKUT .
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18. My Orkut Account
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19. My Profile
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20. How to signup on orkut
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21. Orkut Wall
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22. Traffic of Orkut on March 31, 2004
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 United States 51.36%
 Japan 7.74%
 Brazil 5.16%
 Netherlands 4.10%
 United Kingdom 3.72%
 Other 27.92%
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23. Traffic of Orkut on April 3, 2012
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 Brazil 62.5%
 India 19.5%
 Japan 9.8%
 United States 1.7%
 Pakistan 0.6%
 Other 5.9%
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24. Rating in different countries
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25. Advantages of orkut
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 Lets you find people you may not have talked
to/seen in a while
 Provides a quick communication/socializing tool
 Allows people to meet others with similar interests
 Is a place where photos can be shared to your
friends over the internet
 Allows people to stay connected over long distances
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26. Disadvantages of orkut
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 Could provide a network for illegal activity such as
pornography/soliciting
 Could allow for predators to track young children
 May cause some people to feel bad if others have
more friends than them
 Is sometimes down for maintenance so not totally
reliable
 Could crash and everyone could lose their
information/pictures
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