Friendster announced a relaunch last week and, responsible journalist that I am, I wanted to sign up for an account and investigate the service thoroughly before ripping it to pieces. The first ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- This is the way social networks end: Not with a bang, but a "pivot." Friendster, a pioneering social networking site launched in the pre-Facebook days of 2002, has been ...

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 ...

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.

So you've been using Friendster for a while, and you've sent some messages out to people you're interested in dating or even just being friend friends with, but haven't had any luck with responses.

See About archive blog posts. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What kills a social network? A group of internet archeologists have picked over the digital bones of Friendster – the pioneering social networking site that drowned in Facebook's wake – and we ...

Friendster has fully launched its developer platform with more than 180 applications available to its 56 million registered users, the social-networking site said Tuesday. The company first ...