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After about a week of coding, Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com last Wednesday afternoon. ... But Director of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 said
by ryanwaggoner 16y ago
After about a week of coding, Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com last Wednesday afternoon.
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But Director of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 said that the creation of a Harvard facebook was not as far off as Zuckerberg predicted.
“There is a project internally with computer services to create a facebook,” Davis said. “We’ve been in touch with the Undergraduate Council, and this is a very high priority for the College. We have every intention of completing the facebook by the end of the spring semester.”
Another cautionary tale to launch early and often...
- drags 16y agoAnd not to be dissuaded from pushing forward because someone bigger than you claims to be nearing completion of a competing product. Harvard (FAS) does indeed have a facebook, but it's ugly, slow and has all-or-nothing privacy settings. It's also comically easy to pull data from thousands of people at once from it, but that's another story for another day. Zuckerberg's Facebook is a far superior solution, and I'm glad that he didn't let vague promises of a soon-to-be-completed tool get in the way of developing his own.