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- Friendster
- The first social networking site. Launched in 2002 by Jonathan Abrams, members are typically teenagers or young adults in their 20s, depending on the country they live in. ...
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- 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
- YouTube spotlights presidential candidates; CBS excludes YouTube/MySpace from content deals; Can YouTube Hear Me? (update); and more
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…YouTube invites presidential candidates into the spotlight. YouTube is putting each of the US presidential hopefuls into the Spotlight; a weekly event on the video sharing site where each candidate...
- Tags: YouTube, Widgets, Video Sharing, Social Networks, Politics 2.0, MySpace, Joost, Friendster
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- LinkSViewer.com: follow the money around Silicon Valley
- The New York Times recently argued that, when it comes to creating innovative technology, geography matters -- and that Silicon Valley is still the place to be for anybody with start-up ambitions.Give birth to an information-technology idea in Silicon Valley and the chances of success seem vastly higher than when...
- Tags: Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud
- On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- In search of: Startups that could upend Google and Microsoft
- Earlier this week at one of Mary Jo Foley's talk before the New York Software Industry Association one of the folks in the audience posed a great question. The gist: The Google vs. Microsoft online advertising war resembles Sears vs. Montgomery Ward years ago. The punch line: While Sears and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., BzzAgent, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Ruby on Rails expert: Rails scales; Twitter shouldn't taint Ruby
- Ruby on Rails, a rapid-fire Web development stack, has been under fire of late. Twitter outages have led a fairly loud chorus of folks singing the "Ruby doesn't scale" song. But is it really fair to make the Ruby-Twitter connection, which by the...
- Tags: Database, Ruby, Twitter, Rails Applications, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- DIY phishing kits introducing new features
- What are some of the main factors for the increase of phishing attacks, and their maturity from passive emails to blended threats attempting to not just steal personal information, but also infect with malware by embedding client-side vulnerabilities at the pages? It's all a matter of perspective, which in this...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- ShoZu adds Twitter, Seesmic, Photobucket, and 5 more destinations
- One of the first applications I load up on my camera-enabled mobile phones is ShoZu because it allows me to post photos and videos I capture to a number of websites and services. ShoZu just announced that they have added eight new destinations to their mobile client. ...
- Tags: Destination, Photobucket, Twitter, ShoZu, Camera Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Demographic bidding now in AdWords for everyone
- Google just announced that they are allowing advertisers to target both gender and age in AdWords starting today. This is an important feature that I'm sure advertisers will be very happy to start using. It makes a lot of sense to consider your target gender and...
- Tags: Advertisement, Google AdWords, Gender, Advertiser, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- MWC08: Yahoo oneConnect aggregates all your social networks and more
- While there was lots of very cool hardware shown here at the MWC, the software and services are almost more compelling to me since I switch hardware so often. I will have to go back over my notes and figure out what I thought was the best of the show...
- Tags: Network, IM, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo oneConnect, Social Networking, Instant Messaging, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"Excellent analysisGreat analysis Steve! I am giving a talk at Toronto's FacebookCamp on OpenSocial vs. Facebook, so this will definitely help. As you suggested, Google announced their platform too early. But in a way, it was also an appropriate time to release considering that Friendster, Hi5,...
- Tags: Google OpenSocial, Facebook, Marc Canter
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Ohmigod! Social networkers just can't take it any more!
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk parses the latest numbers from ComScore on social network activity. While looking for something that amused me and stopped me from replying to the likeness quiz invitation and seventy others from lonely Japanese friends on Facebook, I stumbled upon some numbers from ComScore...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Minute, ComScore Networks Inc., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"
- As it stands, the Google-led OpenSocial has very little, if anything, to do with data portability. That's the view of Marc Canter, a long time advocate of open standards and data portability, and one in which I'm inclined to agree. It seems that almost everybody got a little carried away...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- FreeAccess Plus (xpi)
- Bypass filter of YouTube, del.icio.us, Flickr, technorati.com, friendster.com, flickr.com, livejournal.com, MySpace.com, Hi5.com, and some Persian farsi sites in Iran and other countries that blocked this sites. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Site, MohammadR
- Software downloads 2008-01-22
- Social Networking: Brave New World or Revolution from Hell? A look at the phenomenon of Social Networking and the implications for Businesses
- Social networking is a real phenomenon. Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Perfspot, Friendster, Neighborhood - the list of social networking Web sites goes on and on. Masses of users are signing up to their services at an astonishing rate; MySpace alone currently has over 200 million accounts. But...
- Tags: Network, MessageLabs Ltd., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- White papers 2008-01-14
- Social networking prediction for 2008
- One of the pied-pipers of social networking is making some predictions about where the most talked about technology of 2007 is heading in the new year. In his blog post, Marc Canter proclaimed, "All software is about people and now all software will have social features in it." ...
- Tags: Network, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- Facebook outmaneuvers Google; Bebo launches FB-compatible platform
- When Google announced "OpenSocial", a set of three common APIs designed to create an alternative developer platform to that offered by Facebook, I described it as a 'combine and conquer strategy'. [OpenSocial] embraces the "small pieces, loosely joined" philosophy of the web, and in doing so, should help to...
- Tags: Bebo, Google Inc., Facebook, Google OpenSocial, Channel Management, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
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