In some news story or other it said it had been financed using credit cards. What credit card companies were giving them that kind of cash!
I can't see Google shutting it down, though the whole social networking thing is still relativally new (as a phenomenon, anyway). They may have just paid nearly $2bn for something that will be yesterday's news in a year. That would be quite funny.
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