blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in
Marc Andreessen:
- “my personal opinion is that the new Facebook Platform is a dramatic leap forward for the Internet industry.”
- “Congratulations to the Facebook team — big time! — for an amazing leap forward in what the Internet can do for real users and for opening up whole new vistas of opportunities for third-party developers.”
- “This is an amazing achievement — one of the most significant milestones in the technology industry in this decade.”
Holy cow… 6mm users and growing 300k/day!
iLike team:
- “iLike now has 6 million users, and adding another million every few days! We believe this makes us the Web’s fastest-growing music service”
- “The most amazing part is our overnight success on Facebook. The Facebook Platform enables new services to enjoy an unprecedented rate of viral growth, and our recently-launched iLike for Facebook has been kicking butt.”
- “Launching just over two weeks ago, iLike on Facebook signed up a million users in its first week; then a million more in the 5 days, and another million in the next 4 days. We’re currently signing up about 300,000 new users per day.”
- “Could iLike on Facebook actually be the most rapidly-adopted technology launch in history? Or top ten? Heck, we have no idea… but it sure sounds good! If you know of any faster-growing technology, please post it in the comments here.”
And the best of all:
- “In the history of computing, there was the personal computer, there was Windows, there was the web, and now the Facebook platform.”
I can’t remember the last time a new product got so much attention. Did the internet just get reinvented? Is Facebook really a platform?
