MySpace

OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?

All-In Podcast

Used as a historical example of a dominant platform that was eventually surpassed by a fundamentally better product.

Scooter Braun: When Everything Broke, It Fixed Me

The Diary Of A CEO

Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform Of The Future?

Y Combinator

I Hired A Pickup Artist To Help Me Find A Girlfriend

Tim Ferriss

A social networking site that was shut down due to a fast-spreading computer worm created by Sammy.

DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback

All-In Podcast

A social networking service that was a de facto winner before Facebook, used as an example of an incumbent pioneering an idea but losing market share to upstarts.

Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #360

Lex Fridman

An early social networking website, humorously contrasted with modern social media as a 'perfect' platform without algorithmic involvement.

Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel

Y Combinator

A social networking site that offered a simplified solution for displaying connections ('so-and-so is in your extended network') as a contrast to Friendster's complex, resource-intensive approach.