You can see the hollowing out of Friendster in this diagram: The researchers describe heart of successful networks in terms of what that they call K-cores. These are subset of users who not only ...

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 ...

Hey is the subject heading that each of these lovely ladies chose for the messages they sent me via Friendster, a social-networking site that I haven’t visited with any regularity since 2006.

From Yik Yak to Friendster, there have been plenty of short-lived social media sites that were popular one day and gone the next. Only a handful of social media platforms have dominated our ...

Before Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, Friendster was the social media king. Now, Friendster is barely an afterthought in its home country, although it hasn't disappeared. The Mountain View firm is ...

I then raised the subject of Friendster. They were the social Web before MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, you name it. But that was three years ago. And as the New York Times' Gary Rivlin brilliant ...

We’ve got more details on the Friendster acquisition announced last week. Rumors were floating that the buyer, MOL Global, paid as much as $100 million for Friendster. The real price ...

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 ...

In reality, most web start-ups should be so lucky to become Friendster. No, it's not a web darling like Facebook. It doesn't drum up hundreds of headlines per day, nor has it gotten a snazzy $15 ...

Just when you thought the Friendster.com craze had ended – it’s Friendster the movie. The same producers who brought you films like “The Big Chill” and “Reality Bites” have plugged ...

Friendster, an early online social network that has faded in the United States but remains strong in Asia, has begun letting programmers create photo-sharing applications and other programs that ...

On February 4, 2004, a Harvard University undergrad named Mark Zuckerberg introduced TheFacebook.com, a social networking site for his fellow students. Twenty years after its launch, social media ...