washingtonpost.com’s new Facebook app
May 24, 2007
Back in late April, I was asked by my bosses at The Washington Post and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive if I could meet with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. At the time, it was pretty hush-hush as to why.
In very short order, I was on a plane headed to Palo Alto — along with WPNI “new products team” colleague and programming genius Deryck Hodge — to meet with Mark and a bunch of other really cool and smart folks from Facebook. What they showed us was amazing. And ground-breaking.
Facebook was working on a new API that would allow others to …
Holovaty stepping out on his own
I first met Adrian Holovaty when he was still a student at the University of Missouri and I was at The Topeka Capital-Journal. It was Steve Klein who set up the introduction, and I’ve thanked Steve numerous times since!
From the first day I spoke with Adrian, I really wanted him to join our development team because he was one of the brightest people I had ever met.
And even in those earliest discussions, it was obvious he had really great ideas.
The best way to build a great web team is to surround yourself with people who are about a …
