Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams poses in front of the logo for his start-up company, Socializr, at a Lunch 2.0 event in 2007. Credit: Terry Chay. Updated to include a response from Jonathan Abrams.

Friendster outlines some of the changes in a video (embedded below), in which it calls out other social networks (*cough* Facebook and *cough* MySpace) for being plain and boring.

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.

Friendster wouldn’t be the weirdly vital relic that it is—wouldn’t be, period—without them both. Correction, March 5, 2009: This piece originally misspelled the first name of model/actress ...

Friendster, the social network that still exists to surprise of many, is going to be sold by the end of December according to sources speaking with Melanie Lee of Reuters. The social network is ...