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Friendster Rivals Get Together
News In further evidence of a minor boom in social networking start-ups, InterActiveCorp said its Evite invitation service will compete with Friendster, and a San Francisco start-up acquired a competing personal networking service.
[November 13, 2003, 15:05]
Friendster Investors Fall Out Over Patent
News Alarmed by a potential expansion by Friendster on their turf, two competitors who are also investors in Friendster have teamed to buy a patent that they call a key asset in the battle for the nascent social-networking market.
[November 12, 2003, 10:20]
Friendster Scales-Out With MySQL Network: Social Networking Site Handles Over One Billion Database Queries Per Day
White Papers 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 growing) enterprise, Friendster selected MySQL Network to provide the right combination...
[November 14, 2005, 23:00]
Employee Fired For Blogging About Friendster
News With Friendster like this, who needs enemies? Friendster, known for breaking new ground in online social networking and promoting self-expression among peers, fired one of its employees on Monday for her personal Web log, or online diary.
[September 1, 2004, 8:50]
Social Networks Start To Charge
News Social networking, a rising Internet trend most famously exemplified by Friendster, is about to meet another online trend -- fees. Tickle fully expects Friendster and other competitors to jump on the fee bandwagon to benefit the industry as a whole...
[January 27, 2004, 13:35]
Overture Founder Set To Unveil New Search Venture
News The free product, still in experimental form for Los Angeles residents only, puts a new spin on social-networking services like Friendster by infusing it with the local insider feel of Craigslist.org.
[October 5, 2004, 10:40]
Innovation Is Still Key To Online Success
Talkback In a similar scenario; before Myspace, Friendster was the leading Social Network, as soon as myspace offered something attractive, everybody forgot about Friendster. "Neither it nor Yahoo has been stellar in innovating online of late, and their...
[February 7, 2008, 8:07]
Google Sued By Start-up Over Code
News Google launched Orkut in January as an invitation-only social networking site along the same vein as the popular Friendster and Tickle. In October 2003, Friendster rebuffed Google's offer to buy the company for $30m (£16.5m).
[July 1, 2004, 9:10]
Social Networking: Brave New World Or Revolution From Hell? A Look At The Phenomenon Of Social Networking And The Implications For Businesses
White Papers Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Perfspot, Friendster, Neighborhood - the list of social networking Web sites goes on and on. Social networking is a real phenomenon. Masses of users are signing up to their services at an astonishing rate; MySpace...
[March 13, 2008, 23:00]
Blogging, And How To Keep Your Job
News Friendster, Google, Microsoft and Waterstone's also have waved goodbye to employees or contractors who, in the opinion of a corporate manager, were unacceptably indiscreet in their online scribblings.
[March 9, 2005, 13:30]
MYLT Pro
Downloads This one of kind WYSIWYG editor/generator makes creating your myspace, xanga, friendster and most all personal Web pages sites easy as one-two-three. A complete editing tool for your MySpace pages. Add backgrounds, transparencies, contact tables...
[August 1, 2007, 21:16]
Blogging: A Double-edged Sword
News However, high profile sackings due to negative blog postings have hurt the reputations of several companies, as in the case of Google, Delta Air Lines, Waterstone’s and Friendster. PR company Edelman called for more employer guidelines on blogging...
[September 9, 2005, 16:45]
Google Reveals Its Social Side
News But instead of limiting the project to its own social-networking property, Orkut, Google has invited other sites along for the ride — including LinkedIn, hi5, Plaxo, Ning, and Friendster. Friendster users, for example, won't see any OpenSocial...
[November 1, 2007, 7:55]
Google Blogger 'was Fired'
News Other examples include a Delta Air Lines flight attendant who was fired after posting photos of herself in uniform on her blog; a Microsoft contractor who took some pictures of Apple G5 computers being unloaded onto the software company's campus...
[February 14, 2005, 9:05]
Amazon Invests In Social Networking Site
News In addition to to-do lists, members can post pictures, their locations, email addresses and links to other websites, creating mini-profiles à la online social network Friendster. Amazon is dipping its toe in the blog phenomenon with an investment...
[February 10, 2005, 14:15]
E-commerce: The Best Is Yet To Come
News Rosensweig and Bonnie predicted that Web logs and online communities such as Friendster would come to incorporate e-commerce features through "favourites" lists for music and games. Some Internet pioneers who survived the roller-coaster of the dot...
[October 18, 2004, 9:30]
AOL Snaps Up Bebo
News Social-network pioneer Friendster now finds the bulk of its users in south-east Asia, meanwhile the two major US players, MySpace and Facebook, have focused on expanding over the past year into international markets.
[March 14, 2008, 7:12]
Start-up Touts Musical Communities
News With a pitch that evokes the heady days of 1999, digital music start-up Mercora is planning to launch a distribution service next month, inspired in equal parts by iTunes, Friendster and eBay. Headed by former McAfee chief executive Srivats Sampath...
[October 2, 2003, 13:20]
Yahoo, Google, MySpace Form OpenSocial Foundation
News Many social networks — including News Corp's MySpace, Friendster and LinkedIn — support OpenSocial, a set of technical specifications that lets software developers build applications such as games and photo shows that can run on any social network...
[March 26, 2008, 8:37]
