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Friendster founder on the rise and fall of America's first big social network
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- karzeem 17y agoI'm surprised that they only spend one sentence on the site's technical problems. In late 2003 and early 2004, just about all my friends and I were on Friendster, and speaking just for us, the crippling slowness was by far our biggest problem with the site. Even in the middle of the night, there were times that each page would take a minute or two to load. We were in college at the time, so when Facebook came to our schools, it replaced Friendster almost immediately.
- gojomo 17y agoDid you read the same article I did? Abrams and the author return to the fact that Friendster wasn't "keeping up" with its own growth and "didn't work" a half-dozen times.
- MicahWedemeyer 17y agoSo many of these interviews just seem like fluff surrounding a plug for a new startup / vc fund / product / whatever.
- chaostheory 17y agodoes anyone remember 6 degrees?
- gojomo 17y agoOr also, just before Friendster, Ryze?
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- josefresco 17y agoInteresting part of the article ... ""..."If hundreds of people are copying you, competing with you and your stuff is not working, you're going to get in trouble." The exception seems to be Twitter, who despite huge technical problems as a result of massive growth didn't spawn any legitimate competitors.
- gojomo 17y agoI think people forgive intermittent outages more than persistent unusable slowness. An outage you know will be resolved; frustrating slowness may persist indefinitely.