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Friendster gets new CEO, $20 million in funding and a focus on Asia: Friendster was one of the early social networks, but wound up being surpassed by MySpace and Facebook in the U.S. The fix: Keep its lead in Asia, land $20 million in new funding and hire a new CEO. On Tuesday, Friendster said it named Richard Kimber as...; Tags: Friendster Inc., Asia, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-05
"Friendster Developers Platform" launches: Following Facebook's lead, it seems that almost every other social networking site has announced its intent to create a developer platform for third-party applications, either as part of Google's OpenSocial or by going it alone or both. However, very few have yet to deliver. Not so Friendster, reports News.com, with...; Tags: Facebook, Friendster Inc., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Friendster debuts Developer Platform- but where are the voice APIs?: Colleague Caroline McCarthy lets us know that Friendster- that "whatever happened to?" social networking destination now significantly eclipsed by MySpace and Facebook- seems to have awoken from their slumber with a widget creation-enabling Friendster Developer Platform. FDP kicks off with some 180 apps....; Tags: Friendster Inc., Voice, API, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-12-11
Friendster page views up 40%: According to Comscore data, the social networking site, Friendster saw a 40% increase in page views for the month of May. As you may remember, Friendster was the leader over three years ago, before losing pace to MySpace in particular and then a host of others including the new darling,...; Tags: Social Networks, Friendster; Blog posts 2007-06-26
Friendster makes Google its ad, search supplier: Friendster makes Google its ad, search supplierFriendster makes Google its ad, search supplierTwo crappy services teaming up to bring you even more crap! What could be better?What could be better?http://www.analogstereo.com/nissan_frontier_owners_manual.htm; Tags: Social networking, Friendster Inc., search company, advertisement, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-03-07

Would VoIP have saved Friendster? Hell, no: Would VoIP have saved Friendster? Hell, nofriendsteryep... friendzy and friendster battled it out... myspace sucked... it was all virus ridden code and friendster was kickin.. but the website was soooooo s l o w... finally... death... everyone got tired of friendster... and went to myspace..; Tags: Social networking, Telephony, Friendster Inc., VoIP; Discussion threads 2006-10-17
Would VoIP have saved Friendster? Hell, no: Some of us were consuming the ol liquid barley the other night, talking about everything from Podcasting to politics.I then raised the subject of Friendster. They were the social Web before MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, you name it.But that was three years ago. And as the New York Times Gary...; Tags: Friendster; Blog posts 2006-10-16
Friendster gets $10 million: Friendster gets $10 millionHow many people over a period of time?Let's say that a site goes from 1,000,000 users on a given day to 600,000 a few months later, and that during that time period 3 million people have been members of the "community".Though the number of views will be...; Tags: Social networking, advertisement, Friendster Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-08-21
Friendster gets $10 million: DAG Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital have injected another $10 million into Friendster, the first of the social networking systems, after washing out previous value in a $3 million recapitalization earlier this year. I can't imagine to what end. Places you go to join communities...; Tags: Friendster, Nirvana; Blog posts 2006-08-21
Presenting: the ultimate World of Warcraft, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Digg, Friendster and Memeorandum mash-up: Presenting: the ultimate World of Warcraft, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Digg, Friendster and Memeorandum mash-upOi!I've read that three times and now I have a headache.What exactly were you trying to do with all of that?; Tags: Social networking, Memeorandum mash-up, Memeorandum, Friendster Inc., World of Warcraft, Flickr, mashup, MySpace, Digg, YouTube Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-05-05
Presenting: the ultimate World of Warcraft, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Digg, Friendster and Memeorandum mash-up: I still say there's no such thing as Web 2.0 but this isn't that far off.Plus it is quite doable.It's Friday, everybody is dorkin' for the weekend, so let's go:First, you join World of Warcraft. Then, you take some screen shots of your Avatar in action. Like I show you...; Tags: MySpace, video; Blog posts 2006-05-05
Friendster overture not endearing to all: Friendster overture not endearing to allFriendster youth market too wiseWith such a net savvy membership, large scale email flush through campaigns to such a demographic can only end in tears....bound to be perceived as a corporate approach, which undermines the spirit of such servicesMoreFriendster SPOOFS people???No WONDER they're being called...; Tags: Social networking, Friendster Inc.; Discussion threads 2005-11-10
Friendster befriends blogs--and fees: Friendster befriends blogs--and feesFriendster can take a hikeThey fired an employee for writing about stuff anyone can find out on their own about the company; now they want to open a blogging service. Live by the blog... die by the blog.Most every websitecharges for bandwidth greater than a certain...; Tags: Social networking, Friendster Inc., blog, blogging; Discussion threads 2005-03-02
Making Friends, The VoIP Way: Friendster is a cool social networking Web site that lets you build online networks of friends, exchange messages with them, and broaden your circle to friends of your friends.Now, wouldn't it be nice if a Web and PC-based VoIP service let you contact your friends via IP? Maybe a service...; Tags: VoIP; Blog posts 2004-11-29
Friendster fires developer for blog: Friendster fires developer for blognothing incriminating... I'll never use Friendster...I read the blog, and couldn't find anything bad that was said about Friendster. Only that they switch to PHP and it was running faster, which is like an advertisement for the site.As such, I hate when people are terminated...; Tags: Social networking, Blogging, Friendster Inc., blog; Discussion threads 2004-08-31
Google spawns social networking service: Google spawns social networking serviceSo much attention for something that's not even open to the publicHow can we evaluate a site that isn't even open the general public yet?Google needs some graphics people.Ok dont laugh,Most here are probaly programmer types. Google is unique in the fact that it has...; Tags: Google Inc., Friendster Inc., graphics, social networking; Discussion threads 2004-01-22
Nielsen/NetRatings on online dating profits: Nielsen//NetRatings finds that since it has been monitoring traffic on Friendster in June 2003, its unique audience has risen by 74%. Nielsen also found that in October, Friendster visitors were spending an average one hour and 51 minutes on the site. Nielsen compares this average time to the average time...; Tags: Friendster; Blog posts 2003-12-04
Publishers bet on Friendster-like service: Publishers bet on Friendster-like serviceanother dotcom hopeim glad the venture capitalists are looking out for the internet and helping monolithic media companies attempt to control the online classifieds arena. Reminds me of Survivor. I give it 1 year.; Tags: Social networking, Friendster Inc.; Discussion threads 2003-11-25
Friendster Scales-Out With MySQL Network: Social Networking Site Handles Over One Billion Database Queries Per Day: Helping 17 million people stay in touch with their friends and make new connections with others is a big job. However, as the largest social networking site on the Web, Friendster is up to the task - even with 60 million page-views each day. To manage such a large (and...; Tags: Network, Friendster Inc., MySQL, Social Networking, Databases, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies

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Worldwide Growth among social networking sites in June 2008: Jun-2007 Jun-2008 % Change Total Internet : Total Audience 778,310 860,514 11% Social Networking 464,437 580,510 25% FACEBOOK.COM 52,167 132,105 153% MYSPACE.COM 114,147 117,582 3% HI5.COM 28,174 56,367 100% FRIENDSTER.COM 24,675 37,080 50% Orkut 24,120 34,028...; Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB; Blog posts 2008-09-02