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A bear-market bet

Trackback — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:33:27 PDT

This past weekend I took part in what was supposed to be a simple April Fools gag. But through a series of coincidental circumstances and odd timing, it came together into what some are calling the best tech April fools joke of 2007.I don't know if it was the best, but it certainly had to be the...

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A bear-market bet

Trackback — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:31:45 PDT

Today we are announcing that we have acquired Philip “Pud” Kaplan’s FuckedCompany.com in a stock for assets transaction. The basic details of the transaction are included in a press release that will go out shortly, and Pud has mentioned this on his personal blog.

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A bear-market bet

eastofwest — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:10:37 PDT

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/31/techcrunch-has-acquir...

Funny. Doing Arrington a favor,utah huh?

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A bear-market bet

Jeremy — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:42:06 PDT

It looks like Pud is also selling Mobog. Clearing out all the sites, it looks like.

A few years back, at an advertising event, Pud was looking for a new writer for Fucked Company. I said that the thing that needed to be done was to update the site with RSS and make it more like a blog with comments. I wonder if it was more long-form, and more interactive, if the community would have submitted and stuck around.

Just thinking, though.

Jeremy