Friendster Forgotten
I was giving a little talk & tour this morning to some juniors and seniors from the marketing and advertising program at BC this morning. It was mostly about the way our company works and our process and the like, but at one point, I was talking about how the landscape of the internet's changed over the years. Just stuff about how different technologies and trends come and go and how that affects the sort of work we see from project to project. This lead to a brief talk about that whole "web2.0" evolution and how user-generated content and social networks really took the limelight for a bit there, for which I mostly credited/blamed Friendster.

It wasn't the real point of our conversation, so I was just sort of breezing along, but I had to pause for a minute when I saw that there were a lot of blank stares throughout the room. So I stopped to see where I'd lost them, and it turns out that none of them had ever heard of Friendster.