9/25    How does http://friendster.com generate revenue and how does it survive?
        \_ They're planning to charge for certain features in a few months.
           http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/6744416.htm
        \_ I'm guessing harvesting e-mail addresses and selling them to
           spammers.
           \_ Why would you guess that? There is almost no money in it
              and doing such a thing would destroy their business.
              \_ He would guess that because it makes him sound like
                 a L33T GN00 L1NUX H4X()R!!!!!11!!!!
              \_ why not?  once they have everyone's email addresses, who
                 cares if they continue to run their "business"?  As for
                 money--well, they aren't getting any money NOW, so it's
                 a step up.
        \_ Step three: PROFIT!
           \_ What's step two?
        \_ You're all wrong.  They're now getting VC.  They're going to give
           themselves huge salaries to suck it dry (there's only about 6 guys
           running it and 4 are low paid staff), then retire when it runs out.
           I'm not being sarcastic.  This is the plan.