User Friendly goes public.

January 21, 2001 10:01 AM

User Friendly goes public. And the commercialization of geekdom takes yet another giant leap forward. How long before there are Official Geek(tm) Shops in every mall?
posted by darukaru (7 comments total)

Sounds like a pretty half-vast deal to me...
posted by baylink at 10:42 AM on January 21, 2001

*groan*
posted by darukaru at 10:57 AM on January 21, 2001

Just wanted to get it out of the way early... :-)
posted by baylink at 12:25 PM on January 21, 2001

Does this mean the art is going to improve?
posted by RakDaddy at 1:16 PM on January 21, 2001

There's nowhere to go but up...
posted by wiremommy at 2:48 PM on January 21, 2001

Time for another round of venture-capital funding to send Illiad to art school?
posted by darukaru at 4:32 PM on January 21, 2001

The "Candian Venture Exchange" is the new name of the Vancouver Stock Exchange. The VSE is the most notorious exchange in North America, because almost all the stocks traded there are ripoffs. Lots of penny stocks, mining exploration stocks ... lots of screwed investors too.
posted by aaron at 4:55 PM on January 21, 2001