{"id":1343,"date":"2007-05-27T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T20:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/27\/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-ilike\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T20:56:45","slug":"be-careful-what-you-wish-for-ilike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/27\/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-ilike\/","title":{"rendered":"Be careful what you wish for, iLike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/server_fire.gif?w=525\" alt='server_fire.gif' \/>It has to be pretty great to see your application become the new hot thing &#8212; with everyone wanting to sign up all at once &#8212; and to be able to piggy-back on the success of something as huge as Facebook&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f8.facebook.com\">new F8 platform<\/a> in order to get there. And hopefully that feeling of joy and well-being will sustain the crew at iLike through the next couple of days, as they watch all their servers explode into flames from the heat of 50,000 new users <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2007\/05\/26\/facebook-users-vote-for-ilike-but-what-happened-to-audio\/\">all wanting to log in<\/a> at the same time. According to an email posted at Venturebeat, the company doubled the number of servers it had, then doubled them again, then again, and then again &#8212; and is still getting slammed.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Karp wonders whether Facebook will <a href=\"http:\/\/publishing2.com\/2007\/05\/27\/will-facebook-platform-be-the-new-arbiter-of-web-20\/\">become the arbiter<\/a> of which Web 2.0 apps become successful (or which ones get hammered into the ground, in iLike&#8217;s case). Will all of those 180,000 signups translate into real traffic and\/or revenue for iLike? That remains to be seen.  <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/a_vc\/2007\/05\/the_open_facebo.html\">Some people prefer<\/a> an app like Last.fm, which doesn&#8217;t have a Facebook widget but has acquired one unofficially, thanks to the resourcefulness of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/05\/26\/lastfm-too-slow-users-create-their-own-facebook-application\/\">Jeff Jarvis&#8217;s son.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And my friend Paul Kedrosky makes a typically insightful point about Facebook&#8217;s success &#8212; it isn&#8217;t that the apps are so good, but that Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/27\/facebook_is_mic.html\">brings them all together<\/a> in one place, in the same way Microsoft Office does. That and the social glue that is created through Facebook are a powerful force.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has to be pretty great to see your application become the new hot thing &#8212; with everyone wanting to sign up all at once &#8212; and to be able to piggy-back on the success of something as huge as Facebook&#8217;s new F8 platform in order to get there. And hopefully that feeling of joy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/27\/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-ilike\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be careful what you wish for, iLike&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}