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	Friendster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friendster is based on the Circle of Friends technique for networking individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon.
		The largest group of users of Friendster in a region may not have the same characteristics as that from other regions, as evidenced in the larger membership of teenagers than young adults in South East Asia especially in countries like India, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia.
		Friendster was originally intended as a pure social experiment to see exactly who was connected to whom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friendster (480 words)

	Friendster - Encyclopedia Dramatica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Friendster is like LiveJournal sans the journal, making it basically a way for attention whores to prove they have friends.
		Founded in 2002, Friendster was finally awarded a patent on "social networking" in July 2006.
		Guide to Interpreting Friendster pictures (can also be applied to LJ icons).
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Friendster (154 words)

	NOVELL CUSTOMER SHOWCASE: Friendster
		Friendster is one of the fastest growing Internet companies with nearly one million new users a month.
		Friendster is running approximately 300 SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers on AMD Opteron processors, each one supporting up to 8 GB of memory to manage increasing amounts of data for each of its 650 million relationships.
		Friendster was dissatisfied with support from other Linux vendors and knew that enterprise support was critical to its success.
	www.novell.com /success/friendster.html (804 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Technology -- Friendster CEO departure signals difficulties
		Friendster, which has picked up considerable buzz and venture capital backing since its debut in 2002, has seen the number of visitors to its Web site drop in recent months, and users aren't staying as long as before, analysts said.
		Friendster was the first popular social networking site, which typically offers users ways to create personal pages, post digital pictures, and invite people to link with them on the Website.
		If Friendster is to regain the early lead it once had – as far larger players such as Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp.'s MSN site and Google Inc. already toy with social networks –; it needs to develop new, useful tools to lure users to spend more time on its site, analysts said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/computing/20050526-1639-tech-friendster.html (696 words)

	Becoming a Friendster. By Douglas Wolk - Slate Magazine
		That's one of the cleverest aspects of Friendster and a key to its kissy-kissy vibe: It gets its users to boost each other's egos with "testimonials." Write something nice about your friend, and it'll show up on his or her page, like a high-school yearbook photo exposed to the world.
		Mishandled correctly, the Friendster profile and its attendant testimonials are almost their own short-fiction genre, halfway between a character sketch and an epistolary tale.
		Friendster may purport to be about having fun, but I bet that some really desperate people will bugger this one up, too.
	www.slate.com /id/2085714 (1825 words)

	newsdesk.org \| : If Friendsters Were Voters ...
		Most of Friendster's users are in their twenties, said company spokeswoman Lisa Kopp, and the average user spends upwards of an hour on the site each day.
		Friendster does not collect information on whether or how customers vote, and the question remains as to whether these voters are worth pursuing.
		On Friendster alone, through each user's own personal network, this currently adds up to 193,350 second-degree and 2,773,341 third-degree "friends." Each is a potential recipient of Kerry campaign messages.
	www.artsandmedia.net /cgi-bin/dc/newsdesk/2004/09/14_friendster (1165 words)

	GigaOM » VCs and Friendster Are Buddies Again
		Friendster has raised $10 million from new investor DAG Ventures as well as long-time funders Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark, says the Wall Street Journal.
		Friendster’s new broad social networking patent, which came to light in July, and its ominous language about enforcement have struck fear into the social networking scene.
		Friendster’s high-profile VCs are obviously heartened by the momentum, and are hoping their darndest not to have the company be a fl mark on their records.
	software.gigaom.com /2006/08/21/vcs-and-friendster-are-buddies-again (859 words)

	Success Stories
		Friendster is a privately held corporation headquartered in Mountain View, California and is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark Capital, Battery Ventures and individual investors.
		Because Friendster does not charge its users for the service, maintaining a favorable cost/performance ratio when it comes to all aspects of the company, especially IT investments, is critical.
		Friendster’s core is now running a 100 percent AMD Opteron processor-powered system because the company saw a direct performance benefit from using AMD64- powered servers and recompiling its applications to use 64-bits.
	www.amd.com /us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_566~101050,00.html (930 words)

	How Meeting People Online Becomes Science with Social Networks > Friendster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Friendster, the pioneer of social networks, is also the bridge between online dating sites and social networks.
		Friendster claims more than 5 million registrants, which is a much larger user base than most other networks to date.
		Following the Six Degrees convention, who you see and have access to contacting on Friendster is based on your circle of friends, their friends and their friends' friends.
	www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=174311&seqNum=3 (666 words)

	Wired News: Friendster Quickly Gathering Foes
		The key issues behind the Friendster abandonment trend, according to users, are the service's inability to do anything about its habitual server lag problems, and its growing reputation for heavy-handed moral policies and unilateral decisions it makes on behalf of its members.
		Yet, despite the way Friendster succeeded so rapidly at helping people get a solid handle on what their networks of friends were like, it is likely going to have a hard time keeping those people happy unless it does a better job of listening to them and addressing their concerns.
		The bottom line for Friendster may be that it misread the needs of those who have left for other services, like Tribe or Emode.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,61150,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3 (1136 words)

	Techcrunch
		Sagging social network Friendster was awarded a patent on some pretty fundamental qualities of online social networking late last month.
		Friendster has a number of prominent investors and Kleiner Perkins put in additional funds this February.
		Friendster’s version, which is in development, will be web chat, not a downloadable client (”Meebo” style).
	www.techcrunch.com /tag/Friendster (607 words)

	Definition of Friendster
		Friendster (the name is a pun on Napster) is a social network website.
		The premise is that in this way, one can interact with and meet people who are always a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend, and not a random, unknown person (such as may be found on instant messaging or IRC).
		These accounts are often referred to as Fakesters, and the administrators of the site at first tried to discourage the practice, but as the service became more popular, official Fakesters were created by the Friendster staff to correspond with television and movie characters.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Friendster (360 words)

	JOMC391 \| Friendster
		Friendster was created by a 33 year old former Netscape software engineer named Jonathan Abrams.
		Friendster, due to excessive network traffic and the desire to keep it real, has gone through several efforts of enforcing their policies.
		Friendster, ultimately, is an exemplification of the strength of weak ties.
	www.unc.edu /~fergusje/school/jomc391 (1826 words)

	[No title]
		All the same, I'm trolling Friendster- which is ostensibly a dating network- nearly 24/7 by the time my first weekend of Friendster rolls in.
		Friendster is so gosh darn simple, all you can do to your page is edit these half dozen text fields and change your pictures around- custom html is filtered out for example- which creates a fairly level and egalitarian playing field.
		I write on my page that the great failure of Friendster is that you can't smell someone, see their eyes move, read their body language, hear their voice and how they interact in conversation, shake their hand or reach out to touch them.
	www.terboted.com /txt/fiendster_story.txt (3590 words)

	World Wide Web - Friendster Now Poised for a Comeback
		Friendster announced its new funding round, led by Palo Alto (Calif.)-based venture capital firm DAG Ventures, on Aug. 21.
		Four years ago, Friendster was the first social networking Web site to become a viral sensation by inviting users to post photos and profiles and create links with friends.
		Friendster will put resources into hiring engineers to make the site more user-friendly.
	www.newsfactor.com /news/Friendster-Now-Poised-for-a-Comeback/story.xhtml?story_id=12300BAXJGZL (466 words)

	Friendster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Using Friendster Blogs, the cast and crew of Stacked, starring Pamela Anderson, share their thoughts and emotions as they work together to create each new episode of the show.
		Friendster blogs are like e-diaries; Read what goes into making a hit comedy from the biggest star all the way to the coffee boy.
		If you are not a Friendster member and you would like to create your own blog and profile, sign up today.
	stacked.friendster.com (235 words)

	Metroactive Features \| Friendster
		Friendster's original intent was to take the sleaze factor out of online dating, but it has emerged to become 2003's hottest website and online hangout spot.
		Friendster is still in beta mode, and the official launch date keeps getting pushed back, but the 7-month-old Sunnyvale-based website has already split the world into two types of people: those who are on Friendster and those about to break down and sign up.
		Whether Friendster's evolution will be vigorous enough to satiate veteran Friendster-heads, please the VC funders (whose reputations for pushing around founders, even firing them, is well documented) or stave off the litany of copycats remains to be seen.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.09.03/friendster-0341.html (3663 words)

	Wired News: Making Friendsters in High Places
		Friendster helps users find dates and new friends by referring people to friends, or friends of friends, or friends of friends of friends, and so on.
		A friendster is not exactly a friend, but rather an online acquaintance about whom a lot is known, thanks to the degree of disclosure in their social resume, which, of course, may or may not be true.
		Friendster isn't the only new application catching on in the so-called "social software" realm -- a wide array of systems for creating social networks from weblogs to mailing lists.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,59650,00.html (646 words)

	village voice > news > Six Degrees of Sexual Frustration by William O'Shea
		Friendster works on the same principle as the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, where you find connections between movie stars.
		Friendster is beginning to impact real-life socializing in intriguing ways.
		Rex, the Friendster user with the tourist fantasy, also hints that there was something unsavory about his experience.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0323/oshea.php (1272 words)

	USATODAY.com - Alone but online? You've got a Friendster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Unlike dating sites that disseminate profiles of people looking to meet others, Friendster lets people network only with their friends' other friends — and those people's friends as well.
		Friendster is free for now, but within a few months, it will take on a subscription model similar to online dating sites.
		John Prato of San Francisco originally searched Friendster for users interested in music and cognitive sciences, while Jenae Serena of Seattle was hoping to network with other people in the software industry.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/webguide/internetlife/2003-08-03-friendster_x.htm (717 words)

	Fired for Blogging (by Jeremy Zawodny)
		Friendster was hiring PHP developers like mad and their headers and URL show their servers now report using PHP as an application server.
		Friendster's users are no doubt full of many people like me, who had created an account and linked to friends some time ago and simply stopped using the service when it got old.
		Friendster's created a fl hole for themselves in the very medium they depend on by alienating the very people who would be the core of their entire community.
	jeremy.zawodny.com /blog/archives/002498.html (6216 words)

	USATODAY.com - Friendster gets $13 million to revitalize site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On Monday, Friendster announced it secured $10 million from DAG Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and Benchmark Capital.
		Friendster president Ken Lindstrom, who took over day-to-day operations in February, said it won't try to go up against MySpace for the teen and college student demographic but will instead focus on its own niche — the post-college crowd in their 20s and 30s.
		Lindstrom said Friendster is now catching up after user complaints last year that the site was sluggish and unreliable.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/technology/2006-08-22-friendster_x.htm?csp=34 (272 words)

	[No title]
		Like many services, Friendster used the magical number to cap the number of Friends you could have, assuming that anyone who had more than 150 listed was trying to spam the service.
		On Friendster, it was quite common for Profiles to include half-naked images with artistic getups, images that were not appropriate when removed from the Burning Man context.
		Here is where Friendster made a problematic decision - they employed a tactic known in STS as 'configuring the user.' When technologies are built, the creators often have a very limited scope of desired and acceptable behavior.
	www.danah.org /papers/2005.0204.Stanford.txt (4239 words)

	ABC News: Friendster's Identity Search
		Friendster is searching for a way to convince users to come to the site and stay.
		"Friendster used to be the only game in town, and a lot of people copied off of that success," Kwon said.
		The Friendster Web site launched in 2003, offering users a place to link up with existing friends, friends of friends, their friends, and so on down the line.
	abcnews.go.com /Business/story?id=837264&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (418 words)

	Friendster (beta) review by PC Magazine
		Friendster is a veteran in the social-networking field, having started over a year ago.
		Friendster's free-form profile doesn't include many prefab categories for searches, but it's fun to explore the profiles, which many Friendster users clearly spend a good deal of time crafting and fine-tuning.
		According to Friendster CEO Jonathan Abrams, "tons of features" are in the works for once the site's performance, which was noticeably sluggish in testing, is brought up to speed for launch.
	www.pcmag.com /article2/0,4149,1418683,00.asp (1055 words)

	Friendster Expands Its Network (TechNews.com)
		And in a sign that business is booming, Friendster has pegged Scott Sassa, a former NBC executive, as its new chief executive.
		Friendster is also defining its initial business model: advertising-backed programming rather than dating-service fees.
		Friendster had 1 million unique visitors in the month of April, down from 1.7 million in October 2003, according to comScore Media Metrix," the article said.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A12121-2004Jun3.html (1193 words)

	Friendster goes PHP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Friendster has really high traffic, but if you consider the code or design complexity, there is really nothing too hard/outta this world.
		Friendster didn't want VCs knowing that their whole site could be developed by one person in six months.
		Friendster was sooo stupid when you get fogeys like me writing how silly it was to sack you the word is out and you have more friends than you ever had before.
	troutgirl.com /blog/index.php?/archives/22_Friendster_goes_PHP.html (13288 words)

	TCS Daily - Is Friendster the New TIA?
		Friendster, Ryze, Linked-in, Tribe.Net, Yafro, Plaxo, and Spoke are a networker's dream but a privacy-hawk's nightmare.
		FBI agents could log on to Friendster as "Fraudsters" (people pretending to be someone they're not) or eventually some sort of monitoring software could be forcibly installed to gather data, like the FBI's Carnivore box that is installed at ISPs to monitor email traffic.
		But as sites like Friendster and Tribe.net show, less privacy is a choice of many, indicating a more relevant question: how data centers affect our liberties.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=010704D (934 words)

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