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."

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[soft_guy]

and getting jumped on by Brazilians for posting in English in a forum marked "Language: English".

Yeah, that fucking pisses me off! It makes me want to start a rumor that Brazil was behind 9/11 so that Bush will fucking nuke Brazil!!!11!!1!