Fooling Us A Day Early?

An article by Ayelet Noff    2 Comments

Well this seems bizarre… TechCrunch has announced today that it has acquired Philip “Pud” Kaplan’s FuckedCompany.com in a stock for assets transaction.

FuckedCompany.com which features breaking stories on dot com company failures, was founded in April 2000, and at its peak was visited by 4 million unique users monthly. It was named “Site of the Year” in 2000 by both Yahoo and Rolling Stone. In 2004 as the startup economy was improving, the site had lost much of its public attention, but still maintained a loyal user base.

According to the announcement, Michael Arrington believes that the Web 2.0 bubble will soon burst and says that “with the combination of these two companies, we can now effectively cover a startup from the idea stage, through the hype and funding stage, and then cover its inevitable bankruptcy and liquidation as well.”

Well, this sounds to me like a great April Fool’s joke, let us of course not forget this classic:

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

so happy April Fool’s Day to you too Michael!

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