Let’s look back at the internet communities that were thriving before MySpace — even before Friendster. Why did MySpace get ahead when there was strong competition from other social networks at the time?
To explore the earliest days of social media, Joanne is joined by investor and entrepreneur Benjamin Sun, who co-founded Asian Avenue in 1997, and Katie Notopoulos, senior technology reporter for BuzzFeedNews.
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03/22/23 • 31 min
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Main Accounts: The Story of MySpace - 2. Dialed Up
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This is an iHeart original. I started working on an Asian American social networking site with a couple of friends out of my one metro apartment in Midtown Manhattan, and we launched Asian Avenue in the summer of nineteen ninety seven, and that was the beginning of the journey. Back then, you had to buy your own servers, your own computers to host the site. And so I had to raise you three hundred thousand dollars from friends and family just to b
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