F*cked Company is F*cked! Pud throws in the towel! Buy a F*cked Company Cheap!

[mandy]

F***edCompany, the once-feared online message board where frustrated Internet workers went to lash out at their bosses during the dot-com collapse, is for sale.

The site, which contains profanity in the name, went on sale a week ago, said James Martin, the man in charge of selling the site. Martin, who operates a media merger and acquisition company, declined to say how much he's asking for the site or how much interest he's received...

Following the collapse of the so-called Internet revolution in 2001, legions of disgruntled technology workers took to the Web site to mock their employers. In recent years, as the tech sector has bounced back, F***edCompany's influence has fallen off sharply...

full article: http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6172279.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

[jezebel]

From TechCrunch:

Tomorrow we will announce 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 around 9 pm PST tonight, and Pud has also mentioned this on his personal blog. We weren’t going to announce this for another week or so (even though I hinted at it on CrunchNotes), but too many people know about it already and news of it was starting to leak (see Wired and CNET as well). I don’t want to be in a position again where other sites are breaking our news, so we’re announcing officially this weekend.

Reasons For The Merger

# Smart people are saying the end of the current boom is near, and these guys are rarely wrong in their predictions. See, for example, Peter Rip’s recent post “Web 2.0 - Over and Out.” Peter really nailed the analysis in that post - and it’s hard to argue with any of his conclusions.
# The TechCrunch DeadPool, where we track failed startups, is growing exponentially. If the failure rate of startups continues to grow this fast, we will be at a point where failures will begin to outnumber new funded startups. Since 9/10 startups fail, by focusing on the negative we will have much more content for the site.
# While plenty of startups are launching, we aren’t seeing any actual innovation any more. There just isn’t the “wow” factor around new startups like in 2004/2005. That does not bode well for the future - there just isn’t anything left to invent.

full article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/31/tec...ompanycom/

Pud's  blog: http://www.pud.com/2007/03/about-fc.html

[bargainbloodhound]

Psst...Jezebel...the sale to TechCrunch was an April Fool's joke.  FC is for sale though so the first post in this thread is not an April Fool's joke.

Pud posted an April Fool's message on his blog today

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 most elaborate.

Here's the story...

full post: http://www.pud.com/2007/04/april-fools.html

I'll admit I also thought the sale to TechCrunch was real :-[

[mandy]

Update: Pud's Fucked really is fucked!

From FC's front page:

F.uckedcompany is temporarily f.ucked

The site hasn't been updated since June. 

[bargainbloodhound]

[quote author=mandy link=topic=8981.msg66084#msg66084 date=1194262353]
Update: Pud's boinked really is boinked!

From FC's front page:

F.uckedcompany is temporarily f.ucked

The site hasn't been updated since June. 
[/quote]

(and I'm sure many people who were there during the dot com crash have the same sentiment)