2009

Orkut was launched in January 2004 by Google Inc., Orkut named for the Google engineer who developed it, Orkut Buyukkokten. It was created as an independent project to help people around the world connect.

A Google representative said during its launch that “the site is the independent project of one of its engineers, Orkut Buyukkokten, who works on user interface design for Google. Buyukkokten, a computer science doctoral candidate at Stanford University before joining Google, created Orkut.com in the past several months by working on it about one day a week–an amount that Google asks all of its engineers to devote to personal projects. Buyukkokten, with the help of a few other engineers, developed Orkut out of his passion for social networking services.”

Its great to see Orkut come a long way, inspite of lot of controversies, criticize, bans etc. And its interesting to see people using proxies in office and schools to access Orkut!

With all these, Orkut is 5 now. Yes, its been 5 years after Orkut was officially launched by Google.
Orkut has come up with many new and useful features all these years, and some of them have been covered on our blog frequently.

To have a flashback and to celebrate Orkuts birthday, we present their previous birthday logos. Sorry we missed 1st and 2nd birthday logos.

We really like the concept of Google doodles and all the logos developed on different occasions. Its simple, effective, lovely, conveying some message, greeting etc.
Anyway, we would never want to see Orkut in the list of “Stopped Services by Google”!
We wish Orkut a great success in the coming years, and Hugh market share even outside Brazil, India, Africa. “Happy Birthday Orkut”.

Its almost the end of year 2008. 2008 has been so great for us – We started this blog, we learnt a lot of basics in blogging and internet as a whole. We are really grateful to all the things which 2008 has bought on our way.

Now we would like to welcome 2009 in well equipped manner. So we have compiled some goals for the year 2009, which is mainly concerned with the internet goals.

By having these goals(written goals), will surly motivate us to work for it. And sharing these goals like this will make us accountable and it outweigh the risk that someone steals your future plans! Many productive creative professionals and entrepreneurs claim that they become more committed to their goals after telling people about them! The fact is that, goals are plentiful and very few people have the discipline and resources to make them happen. When you feel accountable to others, you are more likely to stay focused.

Here are some of our goals for the coming year, 2009:-

1. Stay focused and consistent.

2. To finish one of my project – Creation of a spirituality based website(will post about it soon).

3. Never to stop thinking of new ways to be online and to make a decent living out of it!

4. To have alteast 2000 subscribers to our blog updates by the end of 2009.

5. To build a community around Technotip.org

6. I would like to learn managing the time, to be active both on my blog as well as in my college!

7. Learn to make proper use of online services to carryout some of the tasks more efficiently and quickly.

8. Network with similar interest people(Online).

9. Learn PHP, CSS, JS, AJAX etc programming and start some open source projects.

Setting these goals helps us know what actually we want. Having clear idea about where our blog or business should be in coming years, will make us work for it, in that direction.

So we encourage everyone to set some goals(preferably written goals) in their life(short and long term goals) and observe the improvements in you.

Now if you have set some goals for the year 2009, then please share it with us in the comment section. We would really be very curious/interested to know about it.