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So in you opinion, what did Facebook execute better than Friendster which in turn execute better than Sixapart or one of e many social networking ideas in the p

• aristus 16y ago
  Well, again, this is a question-begging term. There is no magic bullet -- there are only things that, in hindsight, worked very very well, and disasters that you avoided. Friendster in particular shot themselves repeatedly in the foot by: a) fetishizing immense graph calculations which made their site unbearably slow & expensive to run. b) ignoring a huge influx of overseas users until they became a big capex problem c) not working out ways to exclude or better monetize those overseas users d) not really innovating because they were preoccupied with a). Now things could have turned out differently. If those hugely expensive graph calculations had been hugely beneficial to the user experience, they would have won, hands-down. But that turned out not to be the case. It was a bad bet. Hard to say if it was "bad execution".