Experience Project
Type of business | Social network service |
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Founded | January 25, 2006[1] |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Armen Berjikly (Founder & CEO) Neil Sheth (CTO) Erik Darby (SVP) |
URL | www |
Registration | Not required |
Launched | April 2007 |
Current status | Suspended |
Experience Project was a free
Members submitted "experiences"—their personal, first-person stories about various life experiences they had. Users could then form or join communities based on these experiences and/or interests, and interact with other members who shared them. As of May 2016, the site had over sixty-seven million of these "experiences".[2]
In March 2016, Experience Project announced that it would suspend operations indefinitely. The existing content of the site would remain publicly available, but members would no longer be able to post new content or access their accounts. The site was officially suspended on April 21, 2016.
As of March 2018 all links to the website redirected to a new page which contained only a short message on a blank white background informing that the website is "taking a break" and thanking the community of the site. The website remains closed as of 2024.
Description
The nodes of the network were "life experiences", such as starting a new
In March 2016, it was announced that Experience Project would be closing for the long term on April 21, 2016. New registrations or the posting of new content was suspended, freezing the current library of experiences. Reasons cited for the closure included difficulties maintaining user privacy in the face of increasing governmental powers, challenges complying with new data privacy laws, and general online trends that were moving away from long-form content.[4]
Leadership
Armen Berjikly was founder and CEO of the community, with executive leadership including Neil Sheth as CTO, and Erik Darby as SVP.
Origins
Experience Project was started by Armen Berjikly in late 2004. In 2013, Berjikly gave a popular
Notes
- ^ "ExperienceProject.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- ^ "Experience Project". Archived from the original on 8 December 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ^ "Deep Dark Secrets on the World Wide Web". UCLA Daily Bruin. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
- ^ "Until We Meet Again..." Experience Project. Archived from the original on 2016-04-09.
- ^ "When Change is not a Choice". TEDx. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
External links
- Experience Project (from the Internet Archive)