Friendster says its biggest stronghold is in the Philippines, with more than 12 million active users per month. About 7,000 people showed up for a "Pinoy Friendster Day" event at a Manila-area ...

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 ranks No. 13 on technology research firm Hitwise's recent tally of top social networking sites. It holds less than 1 percent of the market share, trailing newcomers such as imeem.

Friendster was conceived as a twist on online dating, one that would allow people to search for matches within their own expanded affinity groups. But many have treated it as a giant parlor game ...

Friendster's fight.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 ...

You can – just log on to Friendster.com, a 3-month-old site that currently has 730,000 members, according to 33-year-old founder Jonathan Abrams. (He says that 20,000 of those are New Yorkers.) ...

The rise of Friendster and other social networking sites such as LinkedIn.com, Ryze.com and Everyonesconnected.com stems from the Internet’s power as a grass-roots peer-to-peer medium.

"Friendster used to be the only game in town, and a lot of people copied off of that success," Kwon said. "The landscape now is that there are a lot more options, which has really changed the ...

Friendster Inc. -- the most popular social network in the Asian-Pacific area -- is adopting a new strategy focused on the region. The social-networking site plans to announce Tuesday that Richard ...

Friendster awarded patent on social networking Contributor 11:38 AM PDT · July 7, 2006 ...