Does Misery Love F---edCompany.com?

The Nasdaq is crashing. Internet companies are slicing millions of dollars off their revenue estimates. And Net analysts are dusting off their long-forgotten sell ratings.

Perhaps this is a lousy time to launch an e-commerce business.

Not so, says Philip Kaplan, who operates the most famous vulgarly titled site on the Web, an operation we'll refer to as F---edCompany.com.

On Friday morning, Kaplan announced that he would start charging users for new features he has added to F---edCompany.com, which up until now has been a completely free online rumor mill chronicling the implosion of the Internet economy. And, judging from user response, the move has been an overwhelming success, he says. ...