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...
And 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.
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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...