Friendster's Rise and Fall

ThinkComp writes "A few weeks ago I wrote an open letter to my former friend from school, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, telling him to take Yahoo's money before it's too late. It was meant partly as a joke, and partly as a way to set the record straight on his company's origins, since in financial terms he'll be fine no matter what happens. Now the New York Times has written a story on Friendster, the social network no one talks about anymore. It seems that while history repeats itself every few decades in the global scheme of things, the period of recurrence in Silicon Valley is quite a bit shorter. The moral here: take the billion dollars while you still can."

Comments

Profit

[cuteseal]

1. Develop awesome social network site 2. Turn down multi-million(billion?) dollar offers
3. Get overshadowed by copycat
4. Slowly fade out of existence
5. Profit!

Err... wait...

RTFA

[Frankie70]

Does no one remember sixdegrees?


RTFA - it talks about sixdegrees.

Re:MySpace's fall

[sd_diamond]

Can anyone name a fad that remained popular with teenagers for over a year?

Oral Sex?

Re:Firefly, WELL, USENET

[WilliamSChips]

Didn't that show get canceled?

Re:MySpace's fall

[/dev/trash]

I joined 2 months ago, and I have yet to have a legit real person ask to be a 'friend'. 45 cam hoes though.

Re:sixdegrees

[skuzzlebutt]

Yeah, I remember...as my cloud got more populated, I found out that I once did a movie with Kevin Bacon. Weird.

Re:Firefly, WELL, USENET

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm going through the mod options and I just can't find 'retarded'