‘Friendly’ Fire:
So Friendster has decided to fire the engineer who upgraded their slow-ass backend. Why? Because this engineer decided to blog about it. About her job. About work, something just about everyone blogs about.
Since neither of the posts in question reveal protected trade secrets (so far as I can tell) this strikes me as barely legal. Related coverage may reveal otherwise but if Joyce Park didn’t divulge confidential information, I can’t imagine why blogging is an appropriate reason for job termination.
Despite Friendster CEO Jonathan Abrams’s asinine behavior at last year’s South by Southwest, I can’t say I saw this coming.
Friendster accounts are being cancelled all over the place. I might just do the same (via BoingBoing).