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By: Simon Foster

Simon Foster — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:49:15 +0000

cheesedick overload!

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:17:31 +0000

It isn’t from Microsoft, it’s crap!

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: George Appiah

George Appiah — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:07:44 +0000

Funny, their public demo boldly displays the massage "Created by an unlicensed copy of BB FlashBack" Common Room public demo

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:34:49 +0000

reminds me of common.net.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:57:23 +0000

GEOCITIES 4 LIFE! [I honestly couldn't help it, I think I have turrets]

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:04:10 +0000

That video makes me cringe…

By: Santa

Santa — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:32:37 +0000

On one hand, the video is ridiculous in that they are all but promising world peace. At the same time, you have to give the guy some credit for being savvy enough to get some serious coverage of his website.

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:55:05 +0000

The promotion is so cheesy!!

By: brent

brent — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:17:04 +0000

hi
many years ago when i was a child, my first computer was a vic 20, did absolutely nothing then i had a commodore 64 which was the first time i hears of a modem. As a child i visulised this fantastic world of communicating to other people via the computer, shop, bank, gain information, chat ect…
I was extremmely excited to get this computer but left terribly disappointed that it did nothing that i visulised that it could do. I was so disappointed my passion for computers waned until the likes of Bill gates came along and implemented my dreams.
Its one thing is having a idea or dream, but another thing is to implement it. Im sure many people visualised what computers and the web could do, but it would absurb to think that we all could have a claim of creating microsoft.

By: Ilan

Ilan — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:30:21 +0000

This reminds me of Jack and the giant bean lol.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:59:52 +0000

Duncan, you’re right, this is not “wow” material. So why are you reporting it? I don’t read TC to find out about what’s *not* awesome.

This reminds me of how Joystiq can’t stop reporting on Jack Thompson’s every move. By sharing this type of information with the world, you do nothing but encourage these type of people.

Don’t feed the trolls and they’ll stop coming around.

By: TodayIsNotOverYet

TodayIsNotOverYet — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:58:47 +0000

I don’t get it… this is a joke right? That is the video presenting the company? Aaron give me just $100 and I give you a wow

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:28:53 +0000

Zuckerberg’s pig will win the show.

By: Matthew Block

Matthew Block — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:19:55 +0000

I signed up for CommonRoom just for the hell of it, just to check it out. I don’t think it can go viral at all, due to the fact that you are required to be part of some sort of organization first. And since anyone can register an organization, there’s a lot of room for fake stuff. The interface, looks something out of a web1.0 webmail application. I think it has some potential, but it needs loads of improvement.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:12:18 +0000

I remember when I was a senior in college, I started a website. I thought it was the greatest site on earth and it totally sank. It took me 2 years (later) to realise how horrible the site was and it left a bad taste in my mouth. CommonRoom reminded me of my old site and how it left that bad taste. But one thing though, for a site that may not even pass High School standard, he did a pretty good job in having his site featured on Techcrunch.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:02:20 +0000

Dominic,
these two founder posts are the first time I’ve written a thing remotely related to Facebook in over a month: check the archives.

By: Ryan Spahn

Ryan Spahn — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:30:06 +0000

Damn I need to sue Facebook too, just for all the publicity!

By: Word Hugger

Word Hugger — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:16:54 +0000

The initial videos and such make it look pretty useless, but other than the boring monologue, it has a lot of cool features. You can watch the video here:
http://www.comm...publishing.html

By: Dominic

Dominic — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:05:45 +0000

DUNCAN DUNCAN DUNCAN……do us ALL favor and stop reporting on anything to do with FACEBOOK, their founders, reincarnated founders, yada, yada, yada. I am beginning to think FB owns this blog they way all of you preach about it. ENOUGH.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:02:53 +0000

If this guy really had his site “ripped off” in whatever way by Zuckerberg and co then I’ll give CommonRoom a go. The best thing CommonRoom could do is copy Facebook utterly *and improve it* – give Zuckerberg a taste of his own medicine. But then again, I am just being sensationalist.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:34:20 +0000

Andrew (comment 3)
Um yes, that would be the first link in the post….this is a follow up post, I didn’t have details on his startup yesterday nor a product video.

By: Noah

Noah — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:47:08 +0000

Yes, this is a bad site. But Duncan’s headline is far, far worse . . .

By: Michael Hoffman

Michael Hoffman — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:42:14 +0000

As I wrote in the previous post about a social network with the “innovation” of having RSS feeds, I need another social network like another hole in the head.

Do we care that he invented it? Shoulda coulda woulda. Or as Artie Lange might say… “Waaaaaa, they stole my idea.” Get over it.

The next thing is going to be just that, the next thing. It’s not going to be some incremental feature issue on the same idea.

P.S. Please mark the fake steve ballmer as spam. It’s really not interesting.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:39:43 +0000

he claimed to be a FOUNDER of facebook? Or did he simply claim that the term “the facebook” and the concept of the facebook experience was his own?

I understand the story to be that this guy isn’t claiming to have built facebook or be a “founder” of facebook, per se. simply saying he was a major infuence in the whole thing that has been ignored amongst all the connectU mumbo jumbo.

In this crazy industry the word “founder” means more than simply “the guy who thought of it (or claims to have thought of it).” .. it means the individuals responsible for actually launching the empire; establishing the domain name, conceiving the business model, funding the development, etc. To claim to be the “founder” of facebook is to calim to be Zuckerburg himself (stolen or not). as i understand it he has explicitly said he is NOT claiming to be the founder of facebook, and saying that NO real code was stolen from him.

I’m growing slightly tired of the superfluous hyperbole duncan… i respect this blog still and am starting to see a trend toward a more “mashable” style of crap-o-la coming out of it (yeah, i said it. mashable is crap.) and it seems that when the write up is underclass it is accompanied by the same name under the author column. you have to be damn good at what you do to have arrington let you publish under the tech crunch banner… please do him and his loyal readers a service by maintaining the integrity of both this blog and your own name.

god strike me dead if i’ve mispoken and this guy did claim to be a “founder” somewhere along the way… it wont be the first time my foot has been crammed in my mouth; be that the case, i beg your forgiveness and a resounding “no dippy, you check the facts before commenting” can sound-off. but i’ve read about this story on all the blogs and now at 10:30 on a saturday night, holliday weekend, the word “founder” creeps into the scene… i just don’t like it.

p.s. there’s a reason it was buried.