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The name Friendster is a portmanteau of "friend" and Napster. Napster at the time was a controversial peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that was launched in 1999; by 2000, "Napster" was practically a household name, thanks to several high-profile lawsuits filed against it that year. The original Friendster site was founded in Mountain ...
founder of Friendster. Jonathan Abrams [1] is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is best known as the founder of Friendster [2] where he worked from 2002 to 2005. He then founded Socializr, where he worked from 2005 to 2010, and Nuzzel, where he stayed from 2012 to 2018. He has invested in over 50 companies, including Docker ...
Friendster turned down a $30 million buyout offer from Google in 2003. Everything went downhill from there. Instead of selling to Google, founder Jonathan Abrams raised venture capital. Friendster ...
The new Friendster should be going live in the coming weeks and focus mainly on Asian users. Just last week, MOL Global / Friendster CEO Ganesh Kumar Bangah told ZDNet that he’s under the ...
Jonathan Abrams, whose resume as a founder or co-founder includes the Founders Den startup workspace, event service Socializr, social bookmarking service HotLinks, and Friendster (I don't need to ...
It was founded by Canadian programmer Jonathan Abrams in 2002 and was one of the first to get over a million members. Indeed, Friendster got so big that Google even offered to buy it out for $30 ...
Co-founder Jack Dorsey initially envisioned Twitter as an SMS-based service for sending short messages within a small group. The first tweet was sent via SMS by Dorsey on March 21st, 2006; it read ...
This morning, Friendster relaunched as yet another social gaming portal, indeed powered by Facebook Connect (interesting comments over at Hacker News). I’m not seeing anything music-related at ...