From Tech Crunch: Don’t Post The Evidence Unless It Supports Your Case.
The emails provided by WL are truly amazing. Take 3 minutes to read through them. I’ve never seen such unprofessional behavior from a company. Just the email name alone (”Evil Genius”) gives most of the story away.
I don’t know Gina Bianchi, the CEO of Ning, (I spoke with her once by phone when she was doing reference checks on a friend), but I already was a big fan given how well she’s done with Ning. But after reading her emails, I’m even more impressed with her incredible level of patience. If I were in her shoes, I would have terminated my relationship with WL a lot sooner.
Truly amazing.
on Aug 25th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Ok - I was crazy enough to read all the 458 posts (as of August 26th on three threads about Ning vs. WL at TechCrunch).
You probably don’t want to do that to get the picture. But the few things that really convinced me where these two posts…
Very good point @PandrogasI had similar thoughts when I read the published e-mail correspondence between WidgetLaboratory and Ning.
“(WidgetLaboratory) … destroyed … (their decent points) writing those emails in the most arrogant way possible.”
Terry in the other WL thread at TechCrunch wrote (and isn’t he right somehow?):
“Without NING, they would have never existed. They benefited greatly from NING. Now, given those facts, if it were me, I would have sent Gina a bouquet of roses every day and sent Marc a handwritten thank you note every single day.“
Or - maybe the the story can be told totally different as well. Like:
“Maybe WidgetLaboratory provoked the split on purpose because they want to build their own business without Ning. They have everything they wanted (deep knowledge of the datapool technology AND access to Ning network content) and now can sue Ning on top of it.”
fosat - The Future of Sex and Technology