1. Just confirms what I have been saying... many [not all] of these YASNs get the TECHNOLOGY right [not always on the first try] but are clueless about the SOCIOLOGY of networks.

I would quit their site in protest, but I never thought enough of it to join.

Friendster, this DUH! is for you.

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Valdis

2. At my blog http://websurfboard.blogspot.com, I have listed a few alternatives to friendster. If you don't like friendster, but still like social networking, cancil your friendster account, and signup for one of these services. Then leave a comment, You can also take my blog post, and email it to your friends/people you know, post it on other blogs, and spread the word!! Then tell me which service you signed up for, (if you want to,) send me an invite, and we can make a huge network of friendster protesters!!

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Noelle

3. I am stunned. Well, perhaps F isn't about collaboration, freedom of expression, or, indeed, social networking after all. It looks like F is acquiring a history of making strange moves.

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Dima Rekesh

4. Does anybody think that if they didn't want to fire her for other reasons, they'd fire her, as opposed to a warning, for what she blogged about? Anybody can say anything on a blog. I'll believe she was fired *solely* for blogging when somebody more official corroborates.

How about trying to get both sides of the story before taking premature action or making premature judgements?

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Michael

5. Unlike Michael above, I don't blame you for picking up this story, but I definitely am interested to hear Friendster's side of the story. Have you seen them comment on it anywhere? CNET? Wired? If not, would be a scoop waiting to happen. I hope you pick up the thread when their inevitable response surfaces somewhere.

Thanks. -Rick

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Rick Bruner

6. We're designers, not programmers, but we stand behind Joyce Park. Read our discussion on the matter here:

http://www.cranbrookdesign.com/comments.php?id=510_0_1_0_C

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Maya Drozdz

7. Shitcanned with a positive outcome you could say:

Joyce Park, blogger ID Troutgirl with a huge following,
was shitcanned by Friendster, a blogging company, for.....blogging.
Duh, %&? you might be tempted to say. Not so fast. Now and then, the interactive media gets reverse-engineered in the worst sense of the word, by big, huge succesful
TV execs who Bring Their Business Expertise to the Interactive Field. By sharks, whose world is one of one-way boradcasting, where dumb consumers can't talk back and employees, if they're smart, will say what they're told. Two-way conversations in any way are an anathema to the foxy, toxidity of general non-ecletic dishing out of news speak mentality.

Joyce Park is currently getting deluded with job offers. Interactive is cool, sharky.

Gisela Strauss
Technical Translator
Munich
http://bloggerati.blogspot.com
gisela.strauss@gmail.com

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Gisela Strauss

8. Another example of the power of blogs. Also a great way to expose a Congressman seeking out gay sex on phone chat lines.

See the link above for more info...

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by David Hooper