I have updated the OP. It took me two or three weeks to catch up with the events since I started working on it  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=857670

I tried to outline the "evolution" of GAW as a business without going too much into details so that hopefully someone could actually read the post and then perhaps dig deeper of they're interested. Speaking of which, the second post of this thread will eventually contain links to all the major promises and failures and achievements and everything else that is linkable. Just started working on it, might take more than a few weeks at the rate this is going.

Any comments are welcome, here or via PM. Thanks to all who contributed with posts, screenshots, archive links, etc etc. I'm sorry I'm not going to start mentioning names for fear of leaving somebody out, but you know who you are .