I was alerted to a website called Fake Your Space, which on first glance is a pretty whacked way to essentially buy popularity and in doing so, both support and destroy the B2C social networking business model of MySpace and the like.
It's a mash-up of pay-per-post meets MySpace where people can selectively purchase friends who periodically leave comments behind.
It's a bizarre thought, but not really when you think about the price of popularity.
On second glance, when you click on the "purchase or invest in" link ('er if I buy 3 do I get 1 free?), it seems like a pretty transparent (the bad kind) attempt at milking a domain name sale.
This alone is interesting i.e. building up an otherwise shill of a business in order to maximize the value of a domain name? Now we know what's in a name....
Surreal. What will they think of next...virtual worlds?
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