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Friendster Going Strong In Asia, Maybe Soon In Court

Posted by kdawson on from the now-for-the-guns-and-money dept.

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!"

2 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. Re:speaking of has-beens and never-will-bes... by Affenkopf · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope, it hasn't. Orkut is the number one social networking site in Brazil and India, so Google is probably still making money with it.

  2. Regional social networks, not new by Haoie · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not that unusual. For example, Neoxepia [sp?] is very popular in Canada, while hi5 is popular in Latin American countries.

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