The good vibes vanished. In September Hoffman and Pincus spent $700,000 for a patent that they claim--and it's a long shot--could take down Friendster, along with a half-dozen other sites, perhaps ...

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 ...

Social-networking sites proliferate, but none so far dominates. Will Microsoft's mishmash of blogging, networking and messenging technologies win over the uninitiated masses -- or is it vaporware?

Social media platforms like Youtube primarily serve as a communication channel to share ideas and information, whereas social networking sites focus on creating and maintaining relationships ...

In the summer of 2004, the Web site Friendster identified its top competition: tier one included the likes of MySpace, Orkut, Multiply, Hi5, Tribe, LinkedIn, and Blogger.Tier 2 featured Tickle ...

Friendster, which last week added Napster co-founder Sean Parker to its advisory board, has generated considerable buzz. The site has expanded quickly through so-called viral marketing, ...

Friendster CEO: I Made You, Zuckerberg “Embarassingly got this out of the blue… on my AOL account,” writes a friend of Betabeat, forwarding an email headlined “A ...

Some of us were consuming the ol' liquid barley the other night, talking about everything from Podcasting to politics. I then raised the subject of Friendster. They were the social Web before ...

Friendster essentially created the social networking sector, but it fumbled its lead and now ranks 14th among all such sites. The Times's Gary Rivlin reports. (Producer: Erik Olsen) ...

Twenty years after its launch, social media giant Facebook continues to show unprecedented staying power after burying early competitors like MySpace and Friendster and establishing a distinct ...

Friendster, an early online social network, has begun letting programmers create photo-sharing applications and other programs that work on Friendster as well as rival sites. IE 11 is not supported.