So Friendster not only has a policy of not being hacked, but their management also recently earned a policy of being invariably lame concerning publicity: They fired Joyce Park after noticing that she had written a prominent article about Friendster's migration from Java to PHP in her weblog. Considering that e.g. Sun is providing their employees a platform to blog about (non-confidential) company stuff, it seems like Friendster did something really, really stupid.
(Actually Joyce might have asked her manager: "Hey, may I write about this on my website?" before writing the infamous weblog posting, but that doesn't make the management's decision less stupid.)
Written on 31 Aug 04 12:35 PM.