Friendster and the dating game

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Online Dating Goes Global as Userplane
Provides Live Video/Audio Messaging to
Array of International Dating Sites

Online Dating Goes Global as Userplane
Provides Live Video/Audio Messaging to
Array of International Dating Sites 07/03/2004 02:11 AM
Company President Michael Jones to Participate in Internet Dating Conference in Nice, France on July 15 - Online dating is going global as singles worldwide take to the Web in their search for love and companionship – while the dating sites they’re visiting seek a competitive edge from Userplane, a pioneer in applying Flash-based instant messaging to support live communications for Web-based communities. [PRWEB Jul 3, 2004]

Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.

Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs. 09/15/2004 02:13 AM
eTwine.com has officially launched its unique online dating and social networking website after several months of beta testing. eTwine integrates online dating with social networking, event planning & management and an interactive blogging tool to create the most complete social site on the net. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

Online Dating Magazine Launches Free
Online Dating Newsletter

Online Dating Magazine Launches Free
Online Dating Newsletter 07/20/2004 02:48 AM
With online dating more competitive than ever (and the industry growing by $100 million a year), Online Dating Magazine has launched a newsletter to help users get better results from online dating services, while improving relationships. [PRWEB Jul 20, 2004]

"Friendster goes PHP"

"Friendster goes PHP" 07/01/2004 02:00 AM

I'm out of Friendster

I'm out of Friendster 09/01/2004 03:40 PM
I'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.)...

Friendster and PHP

Friendster and PHP 06/29/2004 11:45 PM
Congrats 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.

F is for Friendster

F is for Friendster 11/16/2003 07:26 PM
The Internet has birthed the verbs “googling,” which means “searching for information on Google.com,” and “blogging,” which means “keeping or ...

Here's something for Friendster

Here's something for Friendster 01/22/2004 02:34 AM
Esther 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]

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 to Charge a Fee Soon?

Friendster to Charge a Fee Soon? 11/07/2003 03:11 AM
Techfocus Nov 7 2003 1:54AM ET

Unfriendly Friendster

Unfriendly Friendster 09/04/2004 09:55 AM
If you start an online company, and that company's main services are all based on merging people together via the...

New Friendster features?

New Friendster features? 08/27/2004 01:47 PM

So 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, the movie

Friendster, the movie 03/28/2005 01:17 PM
Xeni 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)

Troutgirl.com: Friendster goes PHP

Troutgirl.com: Friendster goes PHP 06/30/2004 08:08 AM
On Joyce Park's blog, there's a new posting concerning the state of Friendster:

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?

Friendster hires new CEO

Friendster hires new CEO 06/03/2004 12:30 AM

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.

I just signed up for Friendster!

I just signed up for Friendster! 01/24/2004 08:48 AM
nearest and dearest .. my Friendster page .. 62 friendsters .. want to join .. we first met .. friendster? .. Freindster .. official .. website .. :

friendster.com
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Friendster now written in PHP

Friendster now written in PHP 06/30/2004 02:40 AM

Congrats 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.

Friendster rivals get together

Friendster rivals get together 11/14/2003 01:18 AM
ZDNet Australia Nov 14 2003 0:35AM ET

"terminated from Friendster"

"terminated from Friendster" 08/31/2004 10:11 AM

Did Google attempt to buy Friendster?

Did Google attempt to buy Friendster? 10/31/2003 10:39 PM
Search Engine Lowdown Oct 31 2003 9:49PM ET

cancel your friendster account

cancel your friendster account 09/01/2004 08:10 AM
cancel our accounts

friendster.com/cancelaccount.php
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reuters throws a WTF at Friendster

reuters throws a WTF at Friendster 02/16/2004 02:09 AM
we'll charge them nothing and make it up on volume, or How VCs Demonstrate Insanity

doing the math on the friendster bubble

doing the math on the friendster bubble 11/03/2003 03:16 AM
comparison of Friendster and eBay .. Sippey does some math .. analysis

sippey.typepad.com/filtered/2003/10/thinking_throug.html
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Many-to-Many: Fired From Friendster for
Blogging

Many-to-Many: Fired From Friendster for
Blogging 08/31/2004 09:41 AM
Many-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 hires new CEO
(SiliconValley.com)

Friendster hires new CEO
(SiliconValley.com) 06/03/2004 08:38 AM
SiliconValley.com - Friendster, the Mountain View online social networking company that shook the dating scene last year by allowing friends to peer into each other's networks for prospective dates, has named a new chief executive officer.

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 PM
Buried 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.

Google 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."

From 'Friends' to Friendster CEO For
Sassa

From 'Friends' to Friendster CEO For
Sassa 06/03/2004 02:00 PM
Internet News Jun 3 2004 5:41PM GMT

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.

The Friendster of photo sites

The Friendster of photo sites 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
profiles .. trend

salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/20/flickr/index.html
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Tim Koogle rumored to become CEO of
Friendster

Tim Koogle rumored to become CEO of
Friendster 04/09/2004 04:07 PM
Apparently former CEO of Yahoo, Tim Koogle will be replacing Johnathan Abrams as CEO of Friendster. Tim Koogle is an...

Briefly: Friendster hires new CEO

Briefly: Friendster hires new CEO 06/03/2004 06:45 AM

Web Zen: Dating Zen

Web Zen: Dating Zen 09/24/2004 11:08 AM
Xeni Jardin: brutally honest personals
the week in craig
pick up lines
cuddle party
smittens
things my girlfriend...
break up form
rejection line
paper napkin
break up news
Image: "smittens." So cute they make me yearn to hurl. web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank).

Watch out Friendster, here comes
Google's Orkut

Watch out Friendster, here comes
Google's Orkut 01/22/2004 09:51 PM
News.com says: Google tip-toed into the hot market of online social networks with the quiet launch of Orkut.com on Thursday, CNET News.com has learned. The search company, which is expected to go public this year, is flexing its power with its Internet fans by constantly offering new services, including comparison shopping and news search. Orkut could be the clearest signal that Google's aspirations don't end with search. "Orkut is an online trusted community Web site designed for friends. The main...

Google spawns Friendster rival

Google spawns Friendster rival 01/26/2004 12:07 AM
CNET Asia Jan 26 2004 3:41AM GMT

Chart: How to interpret Friendster
photos

Chart: How to interpret Friendster
photos 11/06/2003 07:20 PM
Via buttafly:

Photo Type | What They Want You to Think | The Truth
* Dark, brooding | Doesn't care | Dangerous, possibly a pirate
* Dude jamming on guitar | He's in a popular band and rocks out all the time | Unemployed
* Guy with beard sitting on couch | Sits on the couch a lot, has a beard | Sits on the couch a lot, has a beard

Link (Thanks, ernie!)
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