7 Companies That Could Have Been Facebook It's been a long road for Facebook. What began as an intimate platform has turned into a social networking giant serving more than 900 million users. Facebook may be... May 17, 2012 by Christine Erickson Like Tweet +1
In Facebook's First Article, Zuckerberg Admits 'Friendster Was a Model' How many articles have been written about Facebook in its eight-year history? Impossible to tell -- by the time you came up with an estimate, no doubt, another dozen would... May 17, 2012 by Chris Taylor Like Tweet +1
44% of Online Sharing Occurs Through Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] Sharing widget AddThis, which is installed on more than 7 million domains and reaches more than one billion users per month, released an infographic Wednesday with some... January 14, 2011 by Lauren Indvik Like Tweet +1
YouTube Tops 2010's Most Buzzed-About Social Network List YouTube has come out on top in a ranking of 2010's most buzzed-about websites and social media services. This year was the year of video- and photo-sharing; 2010 saw the... January 21, 2011 by Emily Banks Like Tweet +1
The State of the GeoSocial Universe [INFOGRAPHIC] Jesse Thomas is the CEO and Founder of JESS3, a Creative Interactive Agency. JESS3 designs products and experiences for brands like Google, Nike, Facebook, MySpace,... January 21, 2011 by Jesse Thomas Like Tweet +1
Facebook Buys $40 Million Worth of Social Networking Patents Facebook has acquired a broad set of patents on social networking covering the basic functions of just about any social app, ranging from friend lists to the news feed.... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
Parody: Friendster Remains Unearthed by Internet Archaeologist [VIDEO] The Onion's hilarious Today Show-style parody, Today Now, has made us guffaw with instant Internet classics like the faux segment on how to stalk your kids using Facebook... January 21, 2011 by Jennifer Van Grove Like Tweet +1
Friendster's Fate: Sold to Malaysian E-commerce Giant Just a few days ago we heard rumours about the imminent sale of Friendster, one of the first-generation social networks that originally kicked off the craze. Through... January 21, 2011 by Barb Dybwad Like Tweet +1
RUMOR: Friendster to Be Sold for $100+ Million Do you remember Friendster? Several years ago, it was one of the hottest startups and social networks around, long before MySpace or Facebook hit the scene. Google even... January 21, 2011 by Ben Parr Like Tweet +1
Patent Court: You Can No Longer Patent Thin Air In what could be seen as a victory for doers, and a bit of a setback for thinkers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has made a rather significant ruling... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
Facebook Applications Now Portable to Friendster's Developer Platform Friendster might not be the first name in social networking in the US, but in Asia it’s the dominant player in many countries, with a userbase totaling more than 60... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
Friendster Gets $20M, and a Google Exec. The Rocky Balboa of SocNets? Friendster is back. In full effect? The social network that helped start online social networking as the mainstream phenomenon we now experience has reportedly raised $20... January 21, 2011 by Kristen Nicole Like Tweet +1
Friendster Mobile Launches in Asia Friendster is launching its mobile version of its network. Whew. I expected this a lot sooner, considering Friendster's veteran status and leading position in the Asian... January 21, 2011 by Kristen Nicole Like Tweet +1
Bunchball's $4m Funding To Expand Social Gaming Footprint Into 2009 Several months have passed since we gave the social gaming developer Bunchball a headline. Now we’re hearing from The Deal of its recent capture of $4 million in... January 21, 2011 by Paul Glazowski Like Tweet +1
Bebo Founders Talk History Of Network And Past Web Efforts Husband and wife start social networking site. Husband and wife spend a couple of years growing social networking site to eventually serve 40 million users. Husband and... January 21, 2011 by Paul Glazowski Like Tweet +1
Friendster Finally Makes Asian Presence Official Friendster has finally made it to Japan and Korea. The U.S. social network is now available in English, traditional and simple Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Korean, and... January 21, 2011 by Kristen Nicole Like Tweet +1
Friendster's Bilingual: Chinese Version Coming Soon Friendster has just announced a traditional Chinese version of its social network. This is obviously a move for global expansion, to a part of the world that is high in... January 21, 2011 by Kristen Nicole Like Tweet +1
Friendster Pimps You Out with Fan Profiles You no longer have to pimp your own profile to get new friends. Friendster's offering a way to do it for you with its new Fan Profiles option. With Friendster Fan... January 21, 2011 by Kristen Nicole Like Tweet +1
Socializr-Evite Row Continues A quick update on the Socializr-Evite row that Kristen reported on in April: Evite was threatening to sue the Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams' startup Socializr over... January 21, 2011 by Frederick Townes Like Tweet +1
Friendster Launches Classifieds and Jobs Friendster will launch a new service on Thursday: classifieds and job listings. Coming straight after what appears to be a partnership between Oodle and Facebook to do a... January 21, 2011 by Frederick Townes Like Tweet +1
Tabber Aggregates your Social Networks' Contacts. Really! Tabber is a social networking profile aggregator of sorts, offering a way to import your contacts and keep track of what's going on in their lives from a central location.... January 21, 2011 by Kristen Nicole Like Tweet +1
ProfileFly Launches (Yet Another) Social Networking Aggregator ProfileFly has just launched another social networking aggregator page that has a decent concept, but poor execution. Ever since we've had more than one option for social... January 21, 2011 by Kristen Nicole Like Tweet +1
OtherEgo Launches - YouTube, Facebook, MySpace in One Place OtherEgo, which launched about an hour ago, is a place for all your social networking profiles. While OtherEgo is a social network itself, it's most defining feature is... January 21, 2011 by Kristen Nicole Like Tweet +1
Friendster Scores Yet Another Social Networking Patent?? Update: Friendster confirmed that this patent has been awarded - look for an announcement soon. They've filed for a dozen or so of these, they say. We're still waiting to... January 21, 2011 by Frederick Townes Like Tweet +1
Google-Friendster Partnership Revealed Fresh from a deal with MySpace to power the site's search and ads, Google is set to score another big partnership. Friendster CEO Kent Lindstrom revealed today that the... January 21, 2011 by Frederick Townes Like Tweet +1
The Internet Address Book - Social Networks in One Place The Internet Address Book, which launched this week, is a new service from the Netherlands that brings together all your online identities in one place - social networking... January 21, 2011 by Frederick Townes Like Tweet +1
MeeVee Launches MySpace TV Widget MeeVee, the Internet TV startup based in Burlingame, is launching a new set of features today. The first is a "My Interests" module that appears down the left hand side of... January 21, 2011 by Frederick Townes Like Tweet +1
Flixn Launches - Webcam Video Codes for MySpace Miami-based Flixn, which launched late yesterday, is an easy-to-use tool for recording webcam videos and posting them to social networks, forums, blogs and websites.... January 21, 2011 by Frederick Townes Like Tweet +1
Dogster's Friendster for Dogs Raises $1M Dogster, the social network for dogs that began as a Friendster parody, has taken $1 million in angel funding. The investors include Michael Parekh, Joshua Schachter, Adam... January 21, 2011 by Frederick Townes Like Tweet +1
Friendster Founder's Startup Socializr Now Live Jonathan Abrams' social startup Socializr appears to have entered Gamma testing last week. The site promotes itself as a "free web service for sharing event and party... January 21, 2011 by Frederick Townes Like Tweet +1