Friendster plans to nuke its user data By Julianne Pepitone , staff reporter April 26, 2011: 2:48 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- This is the way social networks end: Not with a bang, but a "pivot." ...

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 ...

Friendster launched in March 2002 and went through different iterations within the same decade. A group of internet archeologists reported on in Wired, published a paper which analyzed Friendster ...

Poor Friendster. This wasn't going to end well. Friendster, it seems, is irredeemably snakebit. The site has for years served two main purposes. Foremost it's a punchline, a synonym for "out of ...

Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams at the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose in 2007. Courtesy of Abrams Facebook , with more than 250 million active users, and Twitter , the fastest-growing social ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just before Friendster relaunched itself as a gaming site in 2011, the Internet Archive crawled the dead network, grabbing a snapshot.Garcia and his fellow researchers used that snapshot of that ...

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, we've ...

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 ...

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&… ...

As MySpace and Friendster were running out of steam, Facebook was gaining momentum through innovation and acquisitions. “In a rapidly changing sector of the economy, to be around for 20 years is ...