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 ...

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 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." ...

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 ...

While Friendster has sputtered out in the U.S. (it's a distant runner-up to social networking groups like Facebook and MySpace, controlled by U.S. billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Rupert Murdoch ...

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 ...

Gary Rivlin at the New York Times finally wrote the Friendster "tell all" piece that everyone's been threatening to do for some time (me included). It's ...

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, the long-time U.S. social network which now has its biggest presence in Southeast Asia, has reportedly put itself up for sale there.

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 ...

HONG KONG -- Remember Friendster? Friendster.com helped launch the online social-networking craze back in 2002. By 2004, the Web site had grown so big its software couldn't handle it and slowed to ...

Colleague Caroline McCarthy lets us know that Friendster- that "whatever happened to?" social networking destination now significantly eclipsed by MySpace and Facebook- seems to have awoken from ...