Orkut Statistics

This is being Posted by Ellen Spertus, Research Scientist and Torsten Nelson, Software Engineer

When orkut launched, we had no idea that scrapbooks would be the primary way members would interact. Billions of scraps later, we've learned that scraps are a huge hit, and have added ways to make them even more fun by enabling you to add videos, photos and HTML.

We've been wondering (and perhaps you have too): Which orkut users are scrappiest? In our recent sample, members from the island nation of Grenada had the highest scrap counts at an average of 1877 scraps. Of the biggest orkut nations, Pakistanis came in first, followed by Americans, Indians, and Brazilians. (All of these statistics are based on current scraps that have not been deleted by the recipients.)

Women receive just under half (48%) of all scraps. Women from the Cayman Islands receive the most, followed by those from the British Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, San Marino, and the Northern Mariana Islands. (What is it about those islanders?) Albanian women had the fewest scraps (81) -- still a pretty substantial number when you think about it.

On the male side, islanders still rule: men from Grenada averaged a whopping 2569 scraps each. Here's the full chart:

Country	Scraps received	Scraps received	Scraps received
(gender)		(women)	(men)
Grenada	1877	557	2569
Cayman Islands	861	1093	715
Pakistan	758	717	779
United States	423	249	578
India	345	443	301
Brazil	267	272	263

Who's sending these scraps? The scrappiest users hail from Pakistan, followed immediately by Madagascar and the Central African Republic. Among women, the most scraps come from Jamaica, then Madagascar, followed by the nation of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Among men, Pakistanis sent the most, then Qatar.

And what are people saying in scraps? Some messages occurred again and again. Out of a sample of 1,000,000 short scraps, the following were among the most common:

scrap	# of occurrences
hi	1131
oi [hi]	689
ok	298
parabens [congratulations]	273
.<	187
hello	18

Not only was the word "hi" common, it also appeared frequently followed by extra "i"s. For example, "hiiiiiiiii", "hiiiiiiiiiiiii", and "hiiiiiiiiiii" each occurred more than 90 times in our 1,000,000 scrap sample.

Until next time, our 46th most popular scrap: "bye"!

http://en.blog.orkut.com/2008/01/orkut-trends-who-sends-scraps.html

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Full of meetings all over the day. Had three official meetings in company and two unofficial meetings. Too much right :D

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This is one of the incident happened in the match that was won by India at Perth.

Kal Ki Raath Pune Rasthe Ke Saath

It all happened Yesterday i.e. on 11th Jan 2008, I happened to roam around pune roads till 3 am in the night.
Details ;)


One of my friends (Santhosh) was going from Mumbai to Hyderabad, which comes to Pune at 1:20 am in the morning. I wanted to meet him to return back his lappy, so I had planned about what to do till that time and where to go. I have asked one of my other friends (Kushal..we call him as GOD ;) )whose home is pretty near to Railway Station, what can we do about that. He told me to come to his room and we can go together to meet our friend. This is the background of the story ;).


Now the story begings ;)
I went to meet Kushal at around 8pm in the night at his office. We then went to his room, there we have started playing Need for Speed. Around 10:00 pm I was feeling hungry so we want to go out. Here started our journey ;). We were thinking of options where to go for dinner at that odd time. We checked out Pizza Hut if it was open. As we are lucky it was open, so we went there and ate pizza reached back his room, as we still had time till 1:20 (the time I was supposed to go to RS).


Again we started doing Time pass watching movies. Around 12:50Am we have started our journey back on the Pune roads ;). We went to RS and met our friend and came out of RS. In the middle of the road we were thinking of roaming on the roads. My friend told that he has heard from one of his colleagues that Coffee Cafe Day of Pashan (a place in Pune) will be open till 3Am. My friend has actually once been mis-leaded by the same guy saying that CCD at other place will be open till 3am, he went there but couldn't see it open. So, we want to make adventure this time.
Here starts great experience. We actually forgot to see the map how to go to Pashan from Pune station. Kushal knows route till one place where it deviates to pashan, but he has never been once there. So we had to explore the roads. We went on searching the roads, first we entered some DRDO area where we are not able to see in line of sight any human being roaming, so we thought of moving further. Then we reached a place where there are two divertions so we choose one but that also happened to be remote place. So we came back again at the divertion place and we took the other way this time. There we have seen BEL and some more places where there are hardly people seen. So we thought that we have missed CCD somewhere.


Here comes the CCD ;)
We were moving on the same road for our surprise and luck, we happened to see really one CCD and which is open at around 2:00 am. Atlast we could find it. More twists here, CCD was actually crowded with people :O at 2:00 am. We managed to get seats and had coffee and came out. Here again there lies one problem we don't want to go back through the same road we came from, so we took the same way which we were moving towards CCD. We actually don't know the way to reach back my friends room. We are again in exploration of roads ;). We have seen many places where we never have been at night 2:30 am ;). We at last happened to see one place where we know. From there we reached safely back to home ;)
All together it is one the most thrilling experiences I had. Thanks to Santhosh and many many thanks to Kushal alias GOD. :D

This is the link where have roamed around
Road Map that we Roamed -- Thanks to GOD ;)

A good link about Common Errors in English

Common Errors in English

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