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The Story Behind The Legendary Software That is Buddywave

Some call it, “A Mover of Mountains”

Some say, “This Will Completely Change The Internet”

No Matter What the Critics Claim… All We’re REALLY Trying to do is Get Your Lame Ass Some Friends… Even if Moving Mountains is Necessary.

So, with all these geniuses calling Buddywave the best thing since sliced bread you are probably wondering; “How the hell did these guys come up with such a grand idea?”

I’m here to tell you…

It all started on a warm, sunny New Mexican day…(and YES guys, we are officially a part of the United States, we just get a little bit rowdier than the rest of you)

You see, even though we are a family of 22 year old college dropouts we manage to successfully run & operate our own online business. For years we have basked in the glow of success, been round-housed in the face by defeat, and gone from random project to random project making enough cash to get by… But, On this particular warm, sunny New Mexican day, BIGGER ideas were brewing…

Our fearless leader Jason Cox was browsing through his Myspace page, looking to invite some particularly good looking girls to our weekly Friday night get together (get together = countless beer pong games and way too much tequilla)

Jason, despite his fondness of the opposite sex was getting really tired of copy/pasting comments into these girls’ pages… I remember seeing the wheels start turning in his tiny little head, and that very same day he started working up the plans and schematics that would eventually let him effortlessly comment, message, and manage his Myspace profile with the greatest of ease.

…And thus, BuddyWave was born.

BUT – Don’t come to the conclusion that his little idea instantly blossomed into the astonishingly cool BuddyWave browser that it is today… No, No… This thing sucked to put together!!

You see, despite being able to run our own online business - When it comes to actually being able to develop software we’re totally & completely useless.

We needed help…

SO - where do you go when you need someone that actually knows a little somethin somethin about programming??

You go to India my young friend… You go to India.

For months we clickitty clacked away on our keyboards with some really cool cats from India and in no time we had our very first version of BuddyWave… Back in these days though, BuddyWave wasn’t called BuddyWave at all… it was called myWHATspace. (Pretty cool name huh? We would have stuck with it but we didn’t want those jerk face killers at Myspace to sue us – so we had to drop it.)

To be perfectly honest with you, myWHATspace wasn’t really all there. It was the weird kid who sits in the back row. You know – He drools, talks to himself, pees his pants, picks his nose, farts with no remorse - the whole nine yards. myWHATspace was kinda crappy.

Not only that but it was constantly twitching out, not really doing its job, and even made funny sounds… kinda like you did during puberty… myWHATspace was BuddyWave during puberty.

Something had to be done…

And when something needs to be done, What do you do??

In most cases you call up India…But not for this project, we already tried that.

For BuddyWave, my very close friend and fellow co-worker here in the office Mike Cianciabella, strapped on his cape, slicked his greasy hair back, crammed his cash and prizes into some tight red spandex and saved the damn day. (You can also hear Mike’s Golden Italian voice in our demo video.. But don’t get too close ladies, the man is an animal)

Anyway, one day Mike said “MIDAZ”, and decided to submit myWHATspace to a very popular tech blog called Techcrunch.com hoping that maybe - just maybe - they would write about us.

Well… they DID write about us and shortly after the article ran we got a very important phone call.

One of the founding fathers of Myspace wanted to talk to us!! (No - Sorry to burst your bubble kids, but your friend Tom is not the creator of Myspace…he’s just some dude)

Brad Greenspan is one of the men who started Myspace, and he wanted to know what the hell WE were up to?! Who woulda thought?!

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