Friendster shoots the messenger

By | August 31, 2004 | PHP

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Remember Friendster’s switch to PHP?

Well it seems Joyce Park’s reward for announcing the top secret switch from Java/JSP to PHP (and giving Friendster a bunch of free advertising) was firing.

Jeremy Zawodny sums it up…

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Although I still can’t figure out the logic behind firing Joyce, as the “switch to PHP” annoucement was in no way damaging to Friendster, feels less-than-good to have been involved in the blogging frenzy that ultimately seems to have got her being fired.

Hopefully someone’s going to step in with a better job offer quick, given a resume that included books and work on mod_pubsub

Written By:

Harry Fuecks

Harry has been working in corporate IT since 1994, with everything from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Outside of office hours he runs phpPatterns: a site dedicated to software design with PHP that aims to raise standards of PHP development. He also maintains Dynamically Typed: SitePoint's PHP blog.

 

{ 4 comments }

Anonymous February 26, 2009 at 3:17 am

hi

Satya September 24, 2004 at 12:43 pm

This is only one of millions questionable employment pratices. Good thing in this case she gets job offers more than the other poor people.

Dean C September 4, 2004 at 5:17 pm

Yeah, this isn’t a particularly fair dismissal. Then again we don’t know the whole story ;)

Widow Maker August 31, 2004 at 12:29 pm

That is utter disgusting of Friendster, bollocks to them all :(

F*** them :D

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