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   itanshi, 11 Jan 2006 @ 1:28pm

   
   

   i'll buy friendster

   i have 500 bucks in the bank, heck i'll toss in some anime dvds i have laying around. Interested in the old evangelion boxset? i gotta get the new platinum thinpack anyways.

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   Argo747, 11 Jan 2006 @ 2:24pm

   
   

   Let me think...

   BAHAHAAHAHHAHAHHA......HAHHAHHAH! It's nice to see greed not pay off for once. IMHO any company that pays hundreds of millions of dollars to aquire one of these types of sites is a sucker, and should be slapped around by their shareholders.

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   haggie, 11 Jan 2006 @ 2:41pm

   
   

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   Can someone explain the difference between Friendster and MySpace? They seem identically stupid to me, but one gets bought by Murdoch, the other is swirling around the toilet bowl...

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   Matt, 11 Jan 2006 @ 2:48pm

   
   

   Greedy, Greedy.

   Talk about unbridadled greed & ego!
   
   If you can capture 50% of the upside of a business before selling, you should consider yourself lucky. And $20-$30 million is nothing to balk at.

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   Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2006 @ 3:17pm

   
   

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   The thing that gets me is that there google stock is probably worth 10 times what they would ever have got for the site, and will continue to appreciate in value.

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   devang, 11 Jan 2006 @ 3:25pm

   
   

   API!

   Without some sort of an API, all social networking sites are doomed, I refuse to maintain 5 different accounts. With that said, friendster and myspace are both terribly ad infested, myspace does offer a bit more fuctionality, so does facebook (not really). LJ, Blogger, MSN Myspace, Typepad, and wordpress to a lesser extent offer most of the same social networking features w/o ads (and are overall much better at social networking), extending these platforms to mobile phones, maybe a cross-promotion deal with a telco wouldn't hurt. Add a web calendar accessible on mobile phones, and the telco's have probably found a way of solving the bandwidth used/user dilemma. I'd be willing to bet Orkut isn't worth much more than friendster is. Missing from all this is yahoo, which did acquire flickr and del.icio.us.

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   Andrew Strasser, 11 Jan 2006 @ 3:34pm

   
   

   Re: Let me think...

   I think that would depnd on what they did with it. There is some success here do you not think it reached you....

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   Argo747, 11 Jan 2006 @ 4:02pm

   
   

   Re: Let me think...

   You've missed the point of my sardonic comment. I didn't say that social networking sites are without value. I said that they're not worth hundreds of millions of dollars to aquire. Couple of million, maybe, but hundreds? Buzz does not create real value. Are you willing to bet the future of your company that you can recoup the price?

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   Bob, 12 Jan 2006 @ 12:16am

   
   

   Who?

   What is Friendster? Never heard of it.
   
   There's your problem right there.

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    Ghost, 12 Jan 2006 @ 2:11am

    
    

    Re: Who?

    ditto

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