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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 ...
Friendster eventually raised money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, BenchMark Capital and Battery Ventures. Some of the most successful and well known venture capitalists in silicon valley ...
Friendster, too, was weighted down with glitches and stagnation. Today, Facebook and Twitter seem mindful to not repeat the mistakes of their predecessors, with their constant experimentation and ...
On May 31, Friendster will move to wipe out all photos, blogs, comments and groups uploaded or created by its users. The company will, however, keep all accounts alive, along with user friends ...
Far more people use Facebook than Twitter, but the blue bird's importance in the social media landscape cannot be ignored. On the one hand, Twitter is a great resource for following breaking news ...
Friendster outlines some of the changes in a video (embedded below), in which it calls out other social networks (*cough* Facebook and *cough* MySpace) for being plain and boring.
Jonathan Abrams. 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 and ...
Friendster's as good as dead to the western world (it hasn't really crossed our radar since 2002), but Forbes reports that the site is still huge in Southeast Asia -- though not for the reasons ...