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Friendster Going Strong In Asia, Maybe Soon In Court
Dekortage writes "Remember Friendster? Long ago outrun and lapped by MySpace and Facebook, and a textbook case of social networking collapse, Friendster appears to be going strong in Asia, and has recently stolen Google's Asia chief for its new CEO. More ominously, though, a recent press release (PDF) notes that the company 'was the first social networking company to launch key features, including the social graph server, a network activities tracker, and more. Friendster has been granted three fundamental patents and has more patents pending.' Hello, lawyers!"
You'll be hard pressed to make me shed a tear if Facebook and MySpace are sued out of existance
has google given up on orkut yet?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Friendster is the perfect place to grab a hot asian girlfriend? I see a social networking un-collapse in their future.
Ha! NY Times is /.ed!
I could never quite figure out what you were supposed to do on Friendster, other than leave testimonials. At least on Facebook you can play games against your friends and communicate in a few different ways. Maybe Friendster has expanded, but it just seemed like a contact list to me.
Warning: Apple/Nintendo fangirl. Likes her electronics cute & cuddly. May be rabid.
I wonder if it is possible to patent a process for maximizing the number of patents and the scope of those patents for a particular invention.
Read my Very Short "Stories"
thanks for this - i've always been interested in a career in proctology, i heard there're a lot of openings in it.
Facebook has got me closer to getting a date then anything else on the internet!
Oh wait, did I just hit submit?
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' - D. Adams
"social networking" of which you speak? Is that like when I post stupid comments on slashdot?
People don't like us...Sue until they have too!
Ave Molech Setting
Spinal Tap lead vocalist to estranged flash guitarist:
The album is number 3 in Japan.
Should read "herro rawyers"
ok its a cheap (and arguably racist and for that I apologise) shot but all I could hear in my head was president Kim from Team America and I had to share....
(btw I once met a girl called Riri and it was all I could do to not ask if that was what her parents riri intended to call her so I guess I am racist and I should just accept it and stop apologising)
Not that unusual. For example, Neoxepia [sp?] is very popular in Canada, while hi5 is popular in Latin American countries.
If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made.
All your friend are belong to us...
I thought all these sites are mainly for people to:
:)
1) Show off their plumages, tails and strut/dance/whatever so that they can attract potential mates.
2) pick lice off/play with their friends fur and so strengthen bonds.
I'm a Malaysian, and I study in Singapore. I have both Friendster and Facebook account. Last year most of my friends were still in Friendster only, and so did I. This year, most of my friends have accounts on both side.
I would still prefer Friendster than Facebook. The interface in Friendster is so much simpler. When you see one's profile page, it is a page full of description from him/herself. I can see directly what does this person look like, have quick access to his/her photos and list of his/her friends. Much of the space below the profile page is occupied by self description written by that person, and that is the key thing for him/her to reflect what he/she wants other to know about themselves.
Finally, there are testimonials which are similar to the wall in Facebook. Some people's testimonials are full of fancy pictures such as "friends forever", but I'm glad that the pollution in Friendster is not so much compared to Facebook, part of the reason being there is no automatic mechanism to send testimonial to everyone in your friend list. There are some extra things that you may find in a profile page, such as applications add-on, css decoration and media box. But to me they are just clone of Facebook and none of them interest me.
Compare Friendster's profile page to Facebook, what do I see in Facebook? One small picture on the left, few details of personal information, followed by a mini-feed which tells about useless updates. Then a bunch of junks about who is the hottest, games, pets thingy and whatever more you can think of. The wall in Facebook is pretty much hidden, replaced by SuperWalls where all inside are rubbish forwards which spread like virus in one click. In the end what do I know more about this person? Effectively none.
I like the KISS design of the old profile page in Friendster. It has so much less rubbish than in Facebook. A profile page should be a page to let people know more about you, not to let random people play games with each other. I don't care how you guys in US think about Friendster, because I believe that one day Friendster will stand strong and get pass Facebook. Facebook is just a hype and one day it will burst with other social bubbles just as what happened in dot-com boom.
Well so is Yahoo! My Asian wife and all her friends and relatives only use Yahoo! messenger and Yahoo! mail. And Friendster of course.
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