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"That was probably the most accurate part, seeing Fucked Company at your company while you still worked there," Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams joked at a panel after a screening of the film August .

Wikimedia By OON YEOH An online network has allowed two artistes to not only survive but to thrive in the highly competitive music industry.

Jonathan Abrams Founder of Socialzr and Friendster; San Francisco, CA: "In five to ten years, we will all have chips in our brains.

By Cristina Ledesma Posted on June 18, 2008 Friendster, Inc. announced that it is now available in Malay, allowing its users and visitors a greater choice of languages with which to navigate the site, enter ...

Valleywag The Internet according to "Vanity Fair" -- the 100-word version In a nine-chapter opus, Vanity Fair clean-up hitter Keenan " Coverline " Mayo and Peter Newcomb pitch the inevitable book deal for an ...

A week ago I wrote bemoaning the fact the Friendster redirected all mobile browsers, even "full web" ones like Nokia Webkit and Opera to their limited mobile site.

They say that history is written by the victoriouswhich begs the question as to how Al Gore and Friendster manage to get center stage in a history of the Internet.

Vanity Fair's July issue is about to hit newsstands, and it includes a retrospective on some of the Internet's pioneering figures, including, yes, Al Gore; Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams; Amazon founder ...

Carnival of the Mobilists #126 Yesterday I wrote about Friendster's redesigned mobile site.

Thursday, May 29, 2008 Toral: Engage your audience By Janette Toral Digital Filipino "ENGAGE" was the word most often uttered by all speakers in the recent Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines ...

Friendster, Inc. , the 8th largest website in the world and the #1 social network in Asia, today announced that its 70 million users and the over 1 billion Internet-ready mobile phone users globally can now ...

“People today often belong to more than one online social media site including social networking sites, personal blogs and media storage and sharing sites. In addition, different social media sites are popular in different parts of the world”

Did you read today's front page stories & breaking news? Appcelerator ICEsoft Kaazing Nexaweb Sun KEYNOTES: SYS-CON.TV: Cynergy Announcing RIA Development for Silverlight Wireless News Desk Expanded Its Mobile ... via WEBSPHERE Journal

SlideShare has raised $3M in series A funding led by Venrock. SlideShare is a site and service for sharing presentations. via Alarm

“Right now, we're focused on the growth stage”

Many people think PowerPoint is a reason for a nap. But an Internet start-up that helps people share slideshows online has got the attention of several prominent Silicon Valley investors. via CNET News.com

Meet Watercooler , a startup developing social network applications for all the usual suspects - Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, and Friendster - that allow fans to rally around their favorite sports teams and TV ... via TechCrunch

“Our goal would be to hopefully have one day everybody on the planet on Facebook”

The popular social networking site Facebook is initiating an aggressive expansion to better serve the 60 percent of its 69 million users who live outside the United States. via RedOrbit

The 2008 Webware 100 winners have just been announced. Over half the votes went to the top 10 winners: Facebook , Firefox , Google , iTunes , MySpace , YouTube , DeviantArt , Friendster , Gaia Online and ... via Zoli's Blog

Armed with an extensive background as a financial consultant, Kent Lindstrom chose to take up a new challenge in California's Silicon Valley a decade ago. via The Standard

“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together”

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. said it supports a program by archrival Google Inc. to develop applications for social networks and will help create a joint foundation to keep it alive. via Los Angeles Times

“We never envisioned it'd be growing like this”

Malaysian pop star Karen Kong is one of the most popular people on Friendster, with over 150,000 friends If they recall it at all, most Americans probably remember Friendster as the also-ran of social ... via Time