Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, creators of Facebook, start a new project
Facebook is possibly the most successfull social website ever created. And the two people behind it have decided it is time to move on. Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein have announced that they are planning a new venture, similar to Facebook, but this time aimed at the professional market. It will possibly be more like ecademy.com but with more features, and more user applications, like we see with Facebook.
“Leaving Facebook makes me sad, but I feel I have to follow my passion on this,” Rosenstein said. “I can’t say enough about Facebook and the friends I’ve made here, and I am enormously excited for the company’s future success, a destiny I’m confident it will reach regardless of my participation.”
They are planning to leave Facebook within a month, to start building an “extensible enterprise productivity suite” and a “high-level open-source software development toolkit.” The new software will use the technology used to power Facebook, i.e. Facebook Connect, as a default option for identity and authentication, according to Rosenstein.
The decision to leave was not an easy one to make for the pair. Facebook has been a fantastic success, and to leave such a creation solely in the hands of others is hard for any dedicated software developer. “As our visions for how productivity software could work came into alignment, we thought about building it inside of Facebook,” he said. “It was an attractive option in many ways, and neither of us was eager to exit a company that was in such an exciting phase of its development.”
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Hi Bina, I am well. The share thing is “Add To Any” – http://www.addtoany.com/
there is a thing posted on facebook going around… I was wondering if it was something you guys put on here or if its spam… this is what it entitles: There are many complaints that face book has become unacceptable slow. The
report show that face book has a number of nonactive members. We want to
send this message to see wheather you’re active or not. If you don’t
post this message with in 2 weeks you’ll be removed in order to get more space. Post this on your wall if you are still ……active on your account
Sounds a bit dodgy to me. Very dodgy in fact. If Facebook wanted to delete inactive accounts all they have to do is see when someone last logged in. Any decent social media site will store last login dates of all users. The thing you are talking about sounds like a scam, or something just designed to tar Facebook’s reputation. To cause Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt – FUD.
Also, inactive users will not slow Facebook down, it is the number of people logged in and accessing the databases that will slow it down.
i think this is the creators of facebook if so me and many others like thousand others are going to leave unless you rat out these trolls who go around and pay out dead people eg.. loved ones or past away friends. they have no right ot do this and we have reported them but it just doesnt get rid of them !!!
Richard, please could you explain what you mean by “pay out dead people”? What are Facebook doing with deceased accounts?
Can you please let me know how to delete my old facebook. It got locked somehow with the passwords and now I have a new one I just hate my old one still being up there.
Hi Brian. Sorry, no idea. I think that if you lose access to your account then there is little you can do. Facebook is notorious for holding on to personal accounts. Maybe go to your old profile and flag it is offensive and provide the reason that you want to delete your personal information as you have a new account (if this is an option).