This is an interesting story with an intricate analysis about the failure of Friendster, but I think it's analyzing a bit too much.
Frienster failed because they couldn't make a good business decision to cut a feature - the one that shows the degree of separation between friends. Anyone remember this? [ Me > Friend 1 > Friend 2 > Friend I'm currently viewing. ] I've personally worked on an algorithm for this feature as a prototype demo for a client when Friendster was still in its first year and realized that even on a small sample size (50 users), this algorithm would slow down the servers considerably. Everyone I talked to quit specifically due to those load times as well. It's not a problem that can be fixed with more servers. To say that this is a structural failure of the VC system is a bit out of line. My guess is that Abrams is blaming the VC system when it was probably due to his own inability to make a good business decision and cut a tumorous feature that no one needed. This should have been done early on and it shouldn't have even made it into public beta. On Nov 25, 2007 7:33 PM, Mike Scarpiello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a little long, but a really great analysis of the first social > networking site - > > http://tinyurl.com/2k86l9 > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
