By Kaye Cloutman There are approximately 7.2 billion people in the planet, and we’re all related or interconnected one way or another, even without the internet. At times I can’t help but wonder how life would be for everyone without it, but then perhaps the internet is merely an amplifier of all the existing connections we have as humans. This topic seems to be the one thing pounding hardest in my head at the moment. It’s impossible to expect I’d ever meet more than a tiny fraction of the world’s population but one can always dream. In this issue we are privileged to celebrate Orkut Buyukkokten who has in essence made it possible for many...

By Tamara Gorman Images by Ando Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography Take one dashing Turkish software engineer, add a generous helping of cocktails, a pinch of culinary genius, a sprinkling of Silicon Valley and Bay Area glitterati, and you get everybody’s favorite dish – Orkut Buyukkokten – founder of Hello.com (a fabulous new entrant in the social network landscape) as well as the captivating cover model for GEV Magazine’s most avant-garde issue to date. The best parties happen when one thing leads to another, which was absolutely the case at GEV Magazine’s Tech Issue Launch Party. A forward-looking ethos of 200...