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Friendster hires new CEO
Friendster hires new CEO
06/03/2004 12:30 AMBriefly: Friendster hires new CEO
Briefly: Friendster hires new CEO
06/03/2004 06:45 AMTribe hires new CEO to replace
entrepreneur (SiliconValley.com)
Tribe hires new CEO to replace
entrepreneur (SiliconValley.com)
04/08/2005 12:29 PMSiliconValley.com - Tribe Networks, an emerging player in online
classified advertising and social networking, said Thursday that it
has appointed Jan Gullett to replace CEO Mark Pincus.
Here's something for Friendster
Here's something for Friendster
01/22/2004 02:34 AMEsther Dyson, queen of comedy.
I know I know - it is like poking a rattle snake with your foot.
But I am feeling feisty this morning. Now that Esther Dyson
doesn’t really have anything to say about anything (smart guy in
her company is doing his own thing), she has decided that comedy is
the next big thing.
Dyson got the biggest laugh by suggesting a business model for
Sunnyvale-based Friendster, the popular social networking service and
a company that has yet to collect any revenue from its users.
Populated by lonely singles looking to line up dates, Friendster
should start a personal gift registry, Dyson said. The bottom line
would be: “If you want to date me, this is what you’ve got
to buy me.” (San
Jose Mercury News)
Yup, that’s a new business model, so new that every generation
has been doing the same since Adam and …
[
Om Malik on Broadband]
"Friendster goes PHP"
"Friendster goes PHP"
07/01/2004 02:00 AMF is for Friendster
F is for Friendster
11/16/2003 07:26 PMThe Internet has birthed the verbs “googling,” which means “searching
for information on Google.com,” and “blogging,” which means “keeping
or ...
Lo-fi Friendster
Lo-fi Friendster
12/02/2003 01:07 AM"Theoretically, everybody who entered 111 Minna and plunked down a $5
cover for the happy-hour party had been e-mailed an invitation from a
friend. Of a friend. Of a friend....Four Bay Area women conceived the
Date My Friend idea in January by merging their original invite lists
of 50 friends each, hoping that their single pals would be put at ease
knowing that the guy asking for their number was somehow connected to
them in that six-degrees-of-separation fashion."
Friendster and PHP
Friendster and PHP
06/29/2004 11:45 PMCongrats to Joyce and the front-end team Friendster for pulling off
the JSP to PHP migration. Having the front end less tightly coupled
with everything else ought to make life a lot easier for some folks
there. Now, any bets as to when the "beta" label will come off their
logo?...
The new Friendster
The new Friendster
02/05/2005 09:12 PM
I've been waiting a whiele to see what
happens with the new Friendster. So far - not much. But they do send
this nifty little newsletter nowadays - which has the status of some
of my friends in it.
What intrigues me about this - is how did they know which friends
to tell me about? Those who have updated recently? Those who are
'important' in the blogosphere - or what?
The reason I'm curious is that if you look at these peeps below -
you'll notice nobody less than danah boyd, Xeni Jardin, Tyler Ziemann,
Justin Hall and Scott Rafer.
Not a bad selection of peeps. So I'd say there's something going
on here - something that's determining who is 'important' in my life -
or something like that. Cause Julia Lolita is not known in the
blogspehere and Noah Glass is kind of but not that much. Julia is an
all-star in the SF/BM/LaLa party scene and Noah used to live with me
as a roomate.
Julia's company "Blood & Butter" productions has put on some of the
best parties ever - some of them at my house (with Noah particiapting
I may add.) So how did Friendster know how important Julia is to me?
Email traffic? And Jason is a friend of Julia's - I barely know him.
He's teh one man out in this elite list. Hmmm.
But I don't exchange email with Justin, Xeni or Scott on
Friendster? So I'm curious just how this list was determined.
I'm out of Friendster
I'm out of Friendster
09/01/2004 03:40 PMI've quit. I don't ever use it. I don't have a pressing need to be
registered at a site for daters and people with "open" marriages. I
wasn't impressed with the CEO throwing Friendster condoms into the
audience after giving a talk. I have a problem with the site's
disrespect for the implicit. And then Friendster fired an employee for
blogging. Click here to go to the cancellation form, if you're so
inclined. (Thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for the cancellation link. And
here's a great post by Jon Udell.)...
New Friendster features?
New Friendster features?
08/27/2004 01:47 PMSo this woman Troutgirl works at Friendster - I think she may even
be one of the lead programmers.
Jeremy Zawodny points to her post......
Bring me my social networking
One day last year, I was sitting in the lobby of a hotel in midtown
Manhattan with two friends. It was pouring rain outside, and we were
in low-energy mode. We were idly thinking about going to see a movie
at the theater across the street, but had no idea what was playing or
when. Our next best plan was to go somewhere for a drink before dinner
-- but again, no one had any good ideas about where. I also needed to
check my email to catch up on tentative plans with an acquaintance
further uptown -- a guy I knew well enough to exchange email with, but
not well enough to have his phone number -- but I didn't have a
computer or network access closer than my friends' room upstairs. And
of course I was sitting there thinking, "Dammit! It's 2003, and the
Interweb still sucks!"
That's what social networking should be, and unfortunately still
isn't. In the long run, I don't actually give a rat's ass what my
friends' favorite TV shows are -- because I never watch TV with them.
Social networking has to be useful and able to solve real problems,
not just be a cute (or pornographic) time-waster.
Of my interactions with social networking, the most positive ones
so far have been (excluding blogs):
1) Career contacts via LinkedIn. These have been almost all of high
quality, and save significant time for both me and the hiring manager.
Not that I'm looking for a job right now, but it's always nice to know
what's out there; and the introduction aspect is very valuable for
this use-case.
2) Being able to route new contacts through Friendster. I love
being able to say "Send me a Friendster message" to people I meet
through the blogosphere or conferences, instead of having to give out
my real email address or IM nick or phone number on the public
Internet. And did you know you can now block Friendster messages from
undesirable acquaintances?
3) Finding out via an Orkut group that one of my friends had quit
his job. He was so busy he didn't bother to let me know his lame self
via phone, email, blog, or carrier pigeon.
Given how much time I spent on social software, that's a pretty
disappointing payoff. Unfortunately, I don't just get to bitch about
it... I'm supposed to be making things better. So help me out here:
what social experiences could be usefully intermediated by a service
like Friendster, but aren't yet?
[troutgirl]
So that sure soudn sliek she's lookign for input on future features
for Friendster. Right on!
Maybe the 'new' Friendster will not only support FOAF, OpenMedia, OpenEvents AND OpenReviews - but
also lead us into an inter=-op world where our messages can freely
flow from one system to another.
We called that ThreadsML last
year.
Friendster now written in PHP
Friendster now written in PHP
06/30/2004 02:40 AMCongrats to Joyce and the front-end team Friendster for pulling off
the JSP to PHP migration. Having the front end less tightly coupled
with everything else ought to make life a lot easier for some folks
there. Now, any bets as to when the "beta" label will come off their
logo?...
[Jeremy
Zawodny]
Indeed.
Unfriendly Friendster
Unfriendly Friendster
09/04/2004 09:55 AMIf you start an online company, and that company's main services are
all based on merging people together via the...
"terminated from Friendster"
"terminated from Friendster"
08/31/2004 10:11 AMTroutgirl.com: Friendster goes PHP
Troutgirl.com: Friendster goes PHP
06/30/2004 08:08 AMOn
Joyce Park's blog, there's a new posting concerning the
state of
Friendster:
Friendster rivals get together
Friendster rivals get together
11/14/2003 01:18 AMZDNet Australia Nov 14 2003 0:35AM ET
Friendster, the movie
Friendster, the movie
03/28/2005 01:17 PMXeni Jardin:
Old Hag sez:
Variety reports that Topher Grace will star in an untitled Harold
Ramis ("Groundhogs Day") comedy that will be based on the popular web
service, Friendster.com. Gustin Nash will pen the screenplay. Topher
will play a character that will utilize the website, as well as
instant messaging and camera phones, as he looks for love on the
Internet.
Link
(
Thanks, Susannah)
The Friendster bunny
The Friendster bunny
08/17/2004 01:41 PM
Spotted by
Jeremy Zawodny.
Hmmm does this mean that Froiendster
allows fakesters again?
Does this mean Friendster is gonna support FOAF?
Apprentive Friendster
Apprentive Friendster
08/30/2004 12:15 PM
I got this link in my inBox from someone's DudeCheckThisOut blog
named iBLOGthere4iM.
It shows a Friendster facewall of Friendster members - all about to
what? Participate in a TV show.
If so - this is too bizarre to believe.
Here's the link -
you tell me what's up? Yet another hoax?
It's actually getting kind of fun in the hoax world.
Friendster to Charge a Fee Soon?
Friendster to Charge a Fee Soon?
11/07/2003 03:11 AMTechfocus Nov 7 2003 1:54AM ET
I just signed up for Friendster!
I just signed up for Friendster!
01/24/2004 08:48 AMnearest and dearest .. my Friendster page .. 62 friendsters .. want to
join .. we first met .. friendster? .. Freindster .. official ..
website .. :
friendster.com
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The Friendster of photo sites
The Friendster of photo sites
12/22/2004 01:06 AMprofiles ..
trend
salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/20/flickr/index.html
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reuters throws a WTF at Friendster
reuters throws a WTF at Friendster
02/16/2004 02:09 AMwe'll charge them nothing and make it up on volume, or How VCs
Demonstrate Insanity
Many-to-Many: Fired From Friendster for
Blogging
Many-to-Many: Fired From Friendster for
Blogging
08/31/2004 09:41 AMMany-to-Many: Fired From Friendster for
Blogging
corante.com/many/archives/2004/08/31/fired_from_friendster_
for_blogging.php
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Friendster: We Have a Policy that We Are
*Not* Being Hacked
Friendster: We Have a Policy that We Are
*Not* Being Hacked
07/07/2004 10:56 PMBuried near the bottom of an article in last month's Wired is this
little gem; Friendster rep Lisa Kopp insists, "We have a policy that
we are not being hacked." I don't know if it's sad, scary or funny,
but I can see someone in some corporate highrise somewhere actually
saying this with a straight face.
Tim Koogle rumored to become CEO of
Friendster
Tim Koogle rumored to become CEO of
Friendster
04/09/2004 04:07 PMApparently former CEO of Yahoo, Tim Koogle will be replacing Johnathan
Abrams as CEO of Friendster. Tim Koogle is an...
cancel your friendster account
cancel your friendster account
09/01/2004 08:10 AMcancel our accounts
friendster.com/cancelaccount.php
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Improving Friendster, an MIT approach
Improving Friendster, an MIT approach
01/07/2004 04:19 PM
http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/6171/2003-fall/friendster&nbs
p;contains ideas for improving Friendster collected from students in
this semester's 6.171. Given how much press attention Friendster
received last summer I thought folks would be interested.
Friendster and the dating game
Friendster and the dating game
10/29/2003 12:13 AMGoogle Apparently Tried to Buy
Friendster
Google Apparently Tried to Buy
Friendster
10/31/2003 07:12 AM"Search-engine giant Google recently made a $30 million offer to buy
Friendster, the hot Sunnyvale online dating site that lets users meet
and date friends of their friends."
doing the math on the friendster bubble
doing the math on the friendster bubble
11/03/2003 03:16 AMcomparison of Friendster and eBay .. Sippey does some math ..
analysis
sippey.typepad.com/filtered/2003/10/thinking_throug.html
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Did Google attempt to buy Friendster?
Did Google attempt to buy Friendster?
10/31/2003 10:39 PMSearch Engine Lowdown Oct 31 2003 9:49PM ET
From 'Friends' to Friendster CEO For
Sassa
From 'Friends' to Friendster CEO For
Sassa
06/03/2004 02:00 PMInternet News Jun 3 2004 5:41PM GMT
Friendster Taps Former TV Executive as
New CEO (Reuters)
Friendster Taps Former TV Executive as
New CEO (Reuters)
06/03/2004 02:22 AMReuters - Former NBC Entertainment
President Scott Sassa will take the reins at the popular social
networking Web site Friendster with a mandate to make the
fast-growing and well-funded start-up profitable, the company
said on Thursday.
Friendster turns down $30M offer from
Google
Friendster turns down $30M offer from
Google
11/01/2003 05:17 AMsiliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7148749.htm
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Joyce Park Fired From Friendster
Joyce Park Fired From Friendster
08/31/2004 10:06 AMFired for
Blogging: This is making the rounds pretty fast this morning so
we're going to pile on just for fun. Joyce Park, author of the PHP
Bible and archtect of Friendster's new PHP platform, was fired for blogging about it.
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"Friendster turns down $30M offer from
Google"
"Friendster turns down $30M offer from
Google"
11/01/2003 09:48 PMFormer NBC Exec Jumps to Friendster CEO
Spot
Former NBC Exec Jumps to Friendster CEO
Spot
06/03/2004 06:35 PME-Commerce Times-3 hours ago ... The site has competition from rival
sites like Tribe and ZeroDegrees, as well as from Google's new
social networking business, Orkut. ...
Friendster cans coder for bl0gging
Friendster cans coder for bl0gging
08/31/2004 08:20 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Joyce Park is a coder who worked at Friendster, leading the charge to
re-engineer the poky, Java-based back-end with fast PHP. She blogged
about it, got slashdotted, got written up in the press -- and got
fired. Even though there was nothing confidential in her blog posts,
the new CEO shitcanned her.
[I]t's especially ironic because Friendster, of course, is a company
that is all about getting people to reveal information about
themselves...
Link,
Link to
Jeremy Zawodny's instructions for resigning from Friendster
(
Thanks, Jeffreyp!)
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