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!"
It's true, in Brazil that pronounces the same as 'hot sex', and in India it's equivalent to 'gay lover', and that's why it's so popular in those countries.
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