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  2. Friendster - Wikipedia

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    Friendster. Friendster is a social network originally based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003. [2] [3] Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. [4]

  3. History of chocolate - Wikipedia

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    The history of chocolate dates back over 5,000 years. The cacao tree is native to the tropics of the Americas. The cocoa bean was first domesticated at least 5,300 years ago in what is present-day southeast Ecuador by the Mayo-Chinchipe culture, before being introduced in Mesoamerica . Chocolate was originally prepared as a bitter drink mixed ...

  4. Jonathan Abrams - Wikipedia

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    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 Instacart. [3]

  5. The Friendster Tell-All Story | TechCrunch

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    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 ...

  6. Coenraad Johannes van Houten - Wikipedia

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    Coenraad Johannes van Houten (15 March 1801 – 27 May 1887) was a Dutch chemist and chocolate maker known for the treatment of cocoa mass with alkaline salts to remove the bitter taste and make cocoa solids more water-soluble; the resulting product is still called "Dutch process chocolate". He is also credited with introducing a method for ...

  7. Milton S. Hershey - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .hersheyland .com /home. Milton S. Hershey, c. 1915. Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was an American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist. Trained in the confectionery business, Hershey pioneered the manufacture of caramel, using fresh milk. He launched the Lancaster Caramel Company, which ...

  8. Ruth Graves Wakefield - Wikipedia

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    Ruth Jones Wakefield ( née Graves; June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977) was an American chef, known for her innovations in the baking field. She pioneered the first chocolate chip cookie recipe, an invention many people incorrectly assume was a mistake. [1] Her new dessert, supposedly conceived of as she returned from a vacation in Egypt, is ...

  9. From Friendster to Facebook: Social networking do's and don'ts

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    As is evident with sites like Myspace, Friendster and Orkut, many of the ones that fell by the wayside failed to keep up with the competition. While Facebook adapted readily by building News Feed ...