"Davis said that the principle complication with the creation of an official facebook was figuring out how to design an interface so that directory information could not easily be compiled without authorization."
Funny how focusing on the wrong things will leave you in the dustbin of history.
Truly amazing. Facebook's initial obsession with privacy and ensuring people used their "real identities" might have been the reason for its subsequent success.
Sounds like that concern was a direct response to Zuckerberg compiling everyones photos for facemash. Even if the administration did complete their facebook project, I don't think it would have become what Facebook is today because it would have likely been kept Harvard only and then someone else (perhaps Zuckerberg) would have gone and created a version for other schools.
Funny how focusing on the wrong things will leave you in the dustbin of history.