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Evolution of Facebook

Jeff Wang — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:48:37 +0000

Happy birthday, Facebook! I’ve been an user and fan since its 2004 founding year. It was also the year I entered UC Berkeley as a freshman. Now that I think of it, part of my college experience has basically been defined by Facebook. I was talking about this to my friend the other day, and we can’t really imagine what college would be like without Facebook. It’s been a total of 5 years and as you can see in retrospect, a lot of changes have been made. When I joined, there were about 15 or so college networks. Now they have more than 150 million active users. Amazing.

Apply To Amazon (1994)

Jeff Wang — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:20:40 +0000

I wonder which stealth company around now will be the next big thing 10 years from now. Gotta start scanning that craigslist

Yahoo Homepage Videos Copy Digg’s?

Jeff Wang — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:05:12 +0000

I’m not sure if anyone else is noticing, but Yahoo’s homepage videos are consistently copying Digg’s videos, except one week late. I do think that Yahoo’s AJAX video loading style is pretty nifty, but they need technology that can break videos first.For example, here is one screenshot of what I just saw:

Here is the one from Digg a week ago: I’ll give Yahoo the benefit of the doubt and think that they just coincidentally had the same video. I mean, the definition of viral videos means that they are everything right?Anyways, for your entertainment, here is the actual video. I was at the game.