Friendster has been relaunched roughly 24 years after it first debuted as one of the first social networking websites. Credit: Friendster.com The early-2000s social networking platform has now ...

Three guys sitting at a table in a Thai restaurant in San Francisco, talking about how they use the Internet through their phones. A mishmash of assertions, beliefs about what makes a phone app ...

Good thing we launched the CrunchBase widget, because you may need it to refresh your memory about a certain social networking company called Friendster that’s announcing its own developer platform ...

Is some patent medicine the prescription Friendster needs to get back on its feet? A pioneer in the area of online social networking, the company and its Web site quickly fell from grace. Now it's ...

Since its inception, the social-networking service Friendster has taken a militant stance against members posting fake profiles of cartoon characters, political figures, celebrities and bogus people.

A recent NY Times article entitled “Wallflower at the Web Party” told about Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams and his decision NOT to accept a $30 million buy out offer from Google a few years back, ...

Friendster recently sent a mass e-mail to try to make new friends for its social network. Instead, it made some enemies. The one-time hot spot dug deep into its network to pull out the e-mail ...

With a million members and counting, servers for six-month-old Web site Friendster are staggering under demand. Copycat competitors to the site are cropping up, and rumors of imminent subscription ...

Sagging social network Friendster was awarded a patent on some pretty fundamental qualities of online social networking late last month. The patent covers the determining and display of relationships ...

Friendster has gone live as a social gaming portal, the latest incarnation for one of the pioneers of the social networking space. The new Friendster uses Facebook Connect as a social-networking ...

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