Blog tool is bigger than Friendster

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Friendster fires developer for bl0g

Friendster fires developer for bl0g 08/31/2004 03:07 PM
Managers tell an employee she stepped over the line, the latest warning shot for workers who blog.

Yahoo 360 Offers Blog Tool

Yahoo 360 Offers Blog Tool 03/17/2005 03:49 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Mar 17 2005 8:24AM GMT

elise's overview of the bl0g tool market

elise's overview of the bl0g tool market 08/07/2004 01:41 PM
interesting information, and kudos for opening up to the inevitable criticism

Google buys bl0g tool developer

Google buys bl0g tool developer 02/17/2003 05:25 PM
Weblogs, or blog for short, are a form of grassroots online diary publishing that give ordinary people with limited technical knowledge the ability to update ...

A Multifaceted Online News and Blog
Search Tool

A Multifaceted Online News and Blog
Search Tool 07/28/2004 09:29 AM
Source: ClickZ - Desktop app blends blogs, RSS, e-mail, search, and more....

Blogging for Profits- Triple Your Google
Adsense or Searchfeed Profits With This
Powerful New Blogging Tool From Blog
Burner

Blogging for Profits- Triple Your Google
Adsense or Searchfeed Profits With This
Powerful New Blogging Tool From Blog
Burner 02/01/2005 09:17 PM
Powerful new blogging tool helps any web site no matter how small or large get search engine listed and indexed within days automatically. Turn any blog into a profitable niche that you can duplicate over and over again while tripling your Google Adsense or Searchfeed ad sharing profits. [PRWEB Jan 31, 2005]

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?...

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 ...

"Friendster goes PHP"

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

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]

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 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.)...

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 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 hires new CEO

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

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...

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

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)

"terminated from Friendster"

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

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:

Friendster rivals get together

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

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.

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.

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 .. :

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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?

Office 2003 Tool: Local Installation
Source Tool

Office 2003 Tool: Local Installation
Source Tool 05/28/2004 01:48 AM
The Local Installation Source Tool is a wizard to help manage your Local Installation Source (LIS) on computers running Microsoft Office 2003. The LIS Tool allows you to enable or disable LIS, and to move the MsoCache folder to a new volume. This download is intended for use by customers and network administrators with LIS issues who contact Microsoft Product Support Services. Local Installation Source is a Setup feature. When a user installs Microsoft Office 2003 from a CD or a compressed CD image on the network, Setup copies any required installation files to a hidden folder on the local computer. Microsoft Windows Installer uses this local installation source to install Office, and the local source remains available for repairing, reinstalling or updating Office later on. Users can install features on demand or run Setup in maintenance mode to add new features without their original media.

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

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

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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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.

Briefly: Friendster hires new CEO

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

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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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."

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.

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 and the dating game

Friendster and the dating game 10/29/2003 12:13 AM

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...

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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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.
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Malware Hijacking Google Homepage

Malware Hijacking Google Homepage 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
A lot of malware has been going around lately, some of it preventing you from visiting the actual Google website, or putting up a notice when you try to visit. The most common reason for this is spyware or malware -- software that's included with other programs and stows away in your computer watching what you're doing, popping up ads, and doing other bad things. To get rid of it, you can install LavaSoft's Ad-Aware or Spybot Search and Destroy. Both are free but neither me nor Google are recommending either....

Google Image Search Updated and Now On
Homepage

Google Image Search Updated and Now On
Homepage 03/14/2005 05:19 PM

Froogle Tab on Google Homepage and
Updated SERP Design

Froogle Tab on Google Homepage and
Updated SERP Design 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
The Google comparison shopping engine hits the streets along with a slightly updated look for Google. Curse or blessing for mom-n-pop?

No Postings Today or Why You Don't
Google for Old Friends

No Postings Today or Why You Don't
Google for Old Friends 12/06/2002 12:05 PM
No to Low Postings Today or Why You Don't Google for Old Friends I had a couple of things to blog lined up and then I happened to run a google for an old friend's name -- my best friend from High School actually who I haven't talked to since the late 80s. I didn't find a home page, a web site or a blog; I found an obituary. 34. Cancer. Rest in Peace Old Friend, Rest in Peace.

Google Seeks New Friends With Orkut

Google Seeks New Friends With Orkut 01/25/2004 09:48 PM
High Search Engine Ranking Jan 26 2004 1:16AM GMT

Google Friends newsletter is powered by
Yahoo

Google Friends newsletter is powered by
Yahoo 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
My enemies' enemies are my friends, not when my enemy's enemies are hosted by my enemy. Sign up for the...

Google friendly Dating Matchmaking
Marriage site Friends In Kiev develops
fast!

Google friendly Dating Matchmaking
Marriage site Friends In Kiev develops
fast! 04/11/2005 02:43 AM
Dating Matchmaking Marriage Agency Friends In Kiev started it's existence almost two months ago though existed as an offline agency for 3 years already. During this period it's acquired Google's PR=3 and became Alexa well visited site due to its owners hard work, professionalism and persistance.

Friends, Friends With Benefits and the
Benefits of the Local Mall

Friends, Friends With Benefits and the
Benefits of the Local Mall 05/29/2004 10:54 PM
Whatever happened to teen romance? Life inside the under-age sexual revolution.

EFF Homepage

EFF Homepage 04/09/2005 05:15 AM
EFF Hosts Housewarming Holiday Party ! .. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) .. Eclectic Frottage Foundation .. liberty geeks .. join the EFF .. Goodbye .. more .. Source .. donate .. EFF!

eff.org
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Sarvodaya Homepage

Sarvodaya Homepage 12/31/2004 12:43 PM
Relief Fund for Tsunami Tragedy .. Saryodaya .. Sarvodaya

sarvodaya.org
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ReliefWeb Homepage

ReliefWeb Homepage 12/30/2004 06:28 AM
Relief Web .. According .. ReliefWeb

reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf
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Oxfam - homepage

Oxfam - homepage 12/30/2004 06:28 AM
Oxfam - Asian Earthquake Flood .. OXFAM

oxfam.co.uk
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BBC - Doctor Who - Homepage

BBC - Doctor Who - Homepage 03/22/2005 03:17 PM
it's coming back, and the new Doctor is the best since Tom Baker .. Dr. Who Returns to the BBC .. whole new website

bbc.co.uk/doctorwho
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TerraServer 6.0 Homepage

TerraServer 6.0 Homepage 07/06/2004 01:45 AM
Microsoft TerraServer Imagery .. Terraserver

terraserver.microsoft.com/default.aspx
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Homepage Usability

Homepage Usability 03/30/2005 05:47 PM

Homepage Dropped From Index

Homepage Dropped From Index 09/14/2004 01:08 PM
"PR7 site, competitive industry, site has been up for 5 years. Woke up this morning to find that Google has DROPPED the homepage from the index. I put in the URL, and Google returns a "Sorry, no information is available for the URL" message."

Alexa Adds ODP to Homepage

Alexa Adds ODP to Homepage 01/15/2003 10:59 PM
Alexa has added the Open Directory Project (DMOZ.org) to it's homepage. This is the first major site to add the ODP in over two years!

KDE Homepage - KDE 3.2 Beta 1: Say Hello
To Rudi

KDE Homepage - KDE 3.2 Beta 1: Say Hello
To Rudi 11/05/2003 03:02 AM
KDE 3.2 Beta 1: Say Hello To Rudi

kde.org/announcements/announce-3.2beta1.php
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MSN.com beta testing new homepage

MSN.com beta testing new homepage 06/25/2004 08:12 PM

iCamShare publishes to .Mac homepage,
more

iCamShare publishes to .Mac homepage,
more 09/03/2004 02:28 PM
Developer Arbor Bits has announced that Easy VMail, its application for sharing webcam videos and pictures, is now known as iCamShare. In addition to the new name, iCamShare can now trim unwanted portions from videos, capture and publish images on a .Mac homepage, zoom iSight and other FireWire webcams up to 300 percent, drag and drop pictures and videos into other applications and more. This is a free upgrade for existing Easy VMail owners; the full version is US$14.95, with a demo available. Mac OS X v10.2.8 or v10.3.4 is required.

LookSmart Updates Homepage

LookSmart Updates Homepage 02/06/2003 09:28 PM

Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage
Usability

Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage
Usability 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Preparing for Emergencies - Homepage

Preparing for Emergencies - Homepage 07/28/2004 05:57 AM
preparingforemergencies.gov.uk .. UK Prep for Emergencies Site

preparingforemergencies.gov.uk
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Lurk Homepage System

Lurk Homepage System 07/14/2004 11:57 AM
Lurk 0.2 RC1 Feature List

How I'm integrating bl0gs on my homepage

How I'm integrating bl0gs on my homepage 06/05/2005 11:12 PM
A quick and dirty tutorial on how I'm integrating blogs on my homepage.

LiveJournal XSS

LiveJournal XSS 02/19/2004 06:15 PM
Joshua Miller (Feb 19 2004)

Six Apart to Buy LiveJournal

Six Apart to Buy LiveJournal 01/05/2005 01:49 AM
Rum or has it: Six Apart is buying Live Journal. via Waxy

On Six Apart and Livejournal...

On Six Apart and Livejournal... 01/06/2005 07:10 AM

So Six Apart have bought Livejournal after all. Here's a brief story about how I didn't find out about it... I was chatting to Mena yesterday about something else and couldn't resist querying her about the rumours. Very patiently, and I suspect with some kind of tiny smile just about visible on her concealed-by-IM face, Mena politely informed that she didn't respond to rumours and speculation. To which the only real response was, "If you won't respond, will Anil?"

I didn't get a direct answer to that question, but I did promise to let Mena know if Anil spilled the beans. I figure she'd want to give him a present or a bunch of flowers or something. She's so nice. But then I forgot to ask him anyway. And so it goes...

Anyway, the news was announced relatively late last night as far as I can tell, which means that those of us on this side of the Atlantic probably heard about it before most of the US webloggers. Mena's done a comprehensive write-up on Mena's Corner - as has Brad on his Livejournal. They're both pretty excited about the acquisition - and I think with good reason. There are people who aren't so sure about the whole thing - and I think their anxieties are pretty reasonable (Danah's post on the subject in probably one of the best), but I really think there are more opportunities here than problems. Bringing Livejournal into the weblogging fold (or bringing weblogs closer into the Livejournal fold) could be tremendously interesting. I'd be interested to see whether there was any further development of Livejournal-style networking and social networking stuff. It would seem to have lots of possibilities (and even webloggers love this stuff - check out their adoration of Flikr if you don't believe me). And if it was possible to bring some of that overt social stuff over into MT or Typepad - by cross-platform protocols or whatever - then I can't help but think that would be a good thing. I'm also really interested in the role of Typekey in all of this stuff.

The real threat is, I think, not that Livejournal's community is put under threat, but that their understated aesthetic has a kind of punk-cool and authenticity that could be polished out of existence by the really terribly good designers at SixApart. Livejournal has the feel of a grass-roots, bottom-up, wildly successful community project, where MT, Blogger et al kind of don't. The slightly ramshackle look-and-feel is a core part of that, I think.

Anyway, all in all a pretty interesting day for webloggery and Livejournalhood. I'm really interested in how Blogger fits into all this though. At the moment, it's pretty clear that the fire and the dynamism is with SixApart. They're the people innovating (at least publically). Which leaves me with two questions (1) are Blogger becoming also-rans or (2) what the hell are they planning?

PS. Latest rumour I heard was that SixApart were going to acquire the previously-public sector, non-weblog-producing national-broadcaster of the UK, the BBC. The move is expected to incraese their staffing levels from something like 70 people to something more like 35,000! Ok, maybe I made that last bit up...

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LiveJournal.com

LiveJournal.com 11/05/2003 03:02 AM
LiveJournal LiveJournal.com .. hundreds of thousands .. Live Journal (eng.) .. Liverjournal .. livejournals .. LiveJournal .. elsewhere .. bloggers .. vendors .. Minnie .. enemy .. ljer .. ghey .. Mel ..

livejournal.com
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Six Apart to buy livejournal?

Six Apart to buy livejournal? 01/05/2005 04:29 PM
Ah, shit .. Om Malik

gigaom.com/2005/01/04/six-apart-to-buy-live-journal
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Blog tool is bigger than Friendster

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