Wow. This is quite old, but it is *fantastic*. Apparently, a whole class at MIT analyzed for their midterm and were asked to “… identify three usability problems with Friendster and write instructions to their programmers on how to fix them.” Needless to say, they have a lot of thoughts on the matter.
How fascinating is it that people all over the world, in classes and personally, are putting thought into solving Friendster’s problems?
[Thanks Jason]
I wonder if Greenspun’s students had seen this before posting their suggestions: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is255/f03/lectures/lecture22.pdf
My criticism with Friendster is the target audience is young and doesn’t especially need power tools like Friendster for social networking. The target audience (he said selfishly) is the middle age w/ kids gang that don’t get out much but desperately need to network for personal and professional reasons.
I stumbled on your site via SXSW and find a lot of your pursuits quite interesting.
Thanks