Email a copy of "Friendster: The Untold Story" to a friend.
Gary Rivlin at the New York Times finally wrote the untold story, here you have an extract:
Jonathan Abrams was in a spot. He could take the safe bet and accept the $30 million that Google was offering him for Friendster, the social networking Web start-up he began only a year earlier, in 2002. Saying yes to Google would provide a quick and...