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Revenge is always sweet — and no one dishes it out more cuttingly than the gays. Mark Elderkin, the founder of Gay.com — the queer portal that merged with PlanetOut — was, by all appearances,
abruptly pushed out of his company last year in a so-called reorganization orchestrated by new CEO Karen Magee. Since then, PlanetOut has suffered a financial torture by a thousand cuts, as a host of new gay blogs and dating sites steal its traffic. Last month, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
gave the company a helping hand with fresh financing. But now, Elderkin has designed a scheme to sharpen the assaults of PlanetOut's rivals — and increase his former company's pain.
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