Since its inception, the social-networking service Friendster has taken a militant stance against members posting fake profiles of cartoon characters, political figures, celebrities and bogus people.

A recent NY Times article entitled “Wallflower at the Web Party” told about Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams and his decision NOT to accept a $30 million buy out offer from Google a few years back, ...

With a million members and counting, servers for six-month-old Web site Friendster are staggering under demand. Copycat competitors to the site are cropping up, and rumors of imminent subscription ...

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Friendster recently sent a mass e-mail to try to make new friends for its social network. Instead, it made some enemies. The one-time hot spot dug deep into its network to pull out the e-mail ...

The year is 2026. You thought it was gone forever. A relic of an internet past, a whisper in the digital graveyard. But then, the impossible happened. Friendster just pulled the ultimate comeback plot ...

Is some patent medicine the prescription Friendster needs to get back on its feet? A pioneer in the area of online social networking, the company and its Web site quickly fell from grace. Now it's ...

Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook. Consequently, it is often thought of as the grand-daddy of social networks. At its peak, ...

Jonathan Abrams' last startup, Friendster, was one of the first social-networking companies to attract an audience of users numbering in the millions. Launched in 2003, the site grew quickly through ...

A little less than a year ago tech entrepreneurs Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman invested a combined $310,000 for 5% of Friendster, then a little-known Web site founded by former Netscape engineer ...

As part of its efforts to better monetize its services, Friendster is looking to expand its brand beyond just a social networking site to one that encompasses games and location-based services. In an ...

Ever since the news broke that social-network prototype Friendster will, for all intents and purposes, end its sad existence on May 31, many have speculated as to why it ultimately failed. CNET's ...