Oct 162006
- I’d like to own this game if it ever comes out.
- Ditto this smartphone.
- A few college football players get kicked off the team for buying beer even though a) they didn’t drink it and b) they were over 21. I assume there’s more to this story but so far the only additional information is that they got caught because an assistant coach searched their bags… he probably justified it with the UConn Patriot Act or something.
- How Friendster crashed and burned while MySpace made millions. Call me old-fashioned, but I always preferred Friendster to MySpace. I considered the limited customization options an enormous feature (and I am disgusted that they succumbed by allowing music, video, etc. on their formerly spartan profile pages), and I loved the fact that everyone’s 12-year-old siblings were busy exchanging txtmsg emotichat over at the garish and generally repugnant MySpace. But for one huge reason–the incomprehensible fact that Friendster never bothered to fix the rampant and severe pageload delays that crippled usability–Friendster missed its chance to be what MySpace has become. All that being said, it’s hard to feel bad for the founder who seems most responsible for the site’s failures–he’s had a long time to craft his story, but he seems like an arrogant nerd who let his greed distract him from the site at a critical time.
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