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| Mar 28, 2018 | Ex-Google, Friendster alumni Richard Kimber raises $8.8 million for AI startup Daisee | The Daisee team. Source: Supplied
Australian startup Daisee is stepping closer to its goal of “democratising artificial intelligence” after a recently closing an $8.8 million Series A funding round, despite only launching in August last yea... |
| Mar 22, 2016 | Where are they now? How these 9 social networks have fared since Twitter was born | A lot has happened in the ten years since Twitter was founded — Apple’s App Store and Google Play have come to fruition, the app economy is a billion-dollar industry, and mobile phones have become the new computers. This shift in the way pe... |
| Mar 22, 2016 | Where are they now? How these 9 social networks have fared since Twitter was born | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A lot has happened in the ten years since Twitter was founded — Apple’s App Store and Google Play have come to fruition, the app econom... |
| Dec 6, 2013 | The Hilarious World of Infertility Treatment | Editor's note: VICE has been around for almost 20 years now, and a few of us are getting a little long in the tooth, you know? Some people around the office are starting to shift their attention from open vodka bars to turding out little an... |
| Nov 8, 2012 | Friendster Founder Jonathan Abrams Raises $1.7M To Start Hiring At Social News Reader Nuzzel | Social news startup Nuzzel has raised more than $1.7 million in seed funding.
I say “startup,” but at this point the only person working full-time on the project is Jonathan Abrams, who previously founded or co-founded Friendster, HotLinks,... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | Friendster Owner MOL Takes Majority Investment In Rixty, The Cash-Based Payment Platform For Games | Some consolidation afoot in the world on online payments coming at you, with a little blast from our social networking past. Rixty, a cash-based payment platform for games, virtual goods and other digital content, today received a majority-... |
| May 8, 2012 | Is Facebook 2012 The Same As AOL 2001? | News that the use of Facebook’s reader apps was in a steady freefall got me thinking about AOL.
Or, more specifically, America Online, as the company was known back in the dot-com bubble, before it took on the AOL moniker as part of one of ... |
| Mar 23, 2012 | Facebook The Patent Buyer: Even Before IBM, The List Includes HP, Friendster, BT… And Halliburton | Facebook has confirmed it is buying up a boatload of patents from IBM — 750 in all — that will help the company shore up against potential legal attacks from Yahoo and other companies claiming the huge social network infringes on their inte... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | From Social Network Pioneer To Yet Another Gaming Site: Friendster Reboots | Remember back in April when we reported that Friendster, one of the first dedicated social networking sites, was to unequivocally delete all user profiles photos, blogs, messages, groups and whatnot by May 31?
The site’s owner, MOL Global, ... |
| Apr 27, 2011 | News Corp Has Finally Had It: Accepting Bids for Myspace | The death knells of the first generation of social media platforms continue. A day after Friendster announced that it would be deleting photos and blog posts from its platform, reports surface that News Corp is selling off Myspace and is st... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | Social Network Pioneer Friendster To Erase All User Photos, Blogs And More On May 31 | Before MySpace and Facebook, there was Friendster, a pioneering social networking website for consumers. First launched in 2002, Friendster attracted tens of millions of users over the years, but it never quite grew into the online juggerna... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | No Friend of Mine: Friendster to Delete Personal Data by End of May | Friendster, one of the original players in the social networking arena, is changing the nature of its business to focus more on games and entertainment. Hence, all profile data that Friendster has been saving over the years will be deleted ... |
| Oct 9, 2010 | XKCD Updates Its Map: We No Longer Live In Actual Countries But Digital Ones | A lot has changed since illustrator Randall Monroe drew up the original XKCD “Map Of Online Communities” in 2007. In testament to how far we as Internet denizens have come, earlier this week XKCD updated its beloved classic to more accurate... |
| Sep 24, 2010 | Technologies that have changed college life | From stone-age cell phones to space-age mobile devices
It's becoming abundantly clear that today's college students have more social and technological options open to them than ever before -- even more than they did five years ago.
Foursqua... |
| Sep 2, 2010 | 5 critical places to manage your online identity | (Editor’s note: Jim Fowler is the co-founder of Jigsaw, a Web-based B2B directory. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
You probably know the importance of establishing and maintaining Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles – but ther... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Shoutworthy Lets You Endorse A Friend In 140 | We’ve killed off reputation before, but it somehow refuses to die, with third party platforms like Unvarnished gaining traction in an entirely new sector of social, reputation currency. Quietly launching today out of DUMBO, Brooklyn (“the S... |
| Jun 9, 2010 | Exalead, the 'French Google', is acquired for €135 million | Exalead, the search engine that (no kidding) underlies Friendster and has been behind French government attempts to build a platform to rival Google (yes), has been acquired by Dassault Systèmes, a leader in 3D software for big company proc... |
| Feb 15, 2010 | Google Buzz flies high, but won’t kill Twitter or Facebook | With Google Buzz, Google has launched yet another product to compete in the social networking arena. It’s just one week new, and already Buzz has a significant user base and poses a viable threat to several existing players.
Google, like Mi... |
| Feb 15, 2010 | Google Buzz flies high, but won’t kill Twitter or Facebook | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
With Google Buzz, Google has launched yet another... |
| Jan 26, 2010 | Opera: Facebook largest mobile social network, Twitter fastest-growing | [Norway] Browser maker Opera this morning released their latest State of the Mobile Web report, this time zooming in on the rising trend of social networking on the go. For the first time, Facebook comes out as the most-visited social netwo... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | MOL Global to acquire 100% of Friendster | Malaysian online payments community in "definitive agreement" to purchase social network
Remember Friendster? One of the very first social networking sites launched back in 2003 is in "definitive agreement" to be acquire... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | Malaysian Payments Company MOL Global Snaps Up Friendster | We heard reports that Friendster was going to shopping itself to an Asian technology company but tonight, the news was released that MOL Global, a Malaysian payments company, has purchased social network Friendster. The full press release i... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Friendster Gets A Major Makeover, Calls Other Social Networks Plain And Boring | Log on to Friendster today and you’ll see a background image that says ‘Watch this face! … on December 4’. Turns out the pioneering social network is in for a major revamp tomorrow, including a new logo, tagline (“Connecting Smiles”) and an... |
| Oct 5, 2009 | Friendster Expands Social Networking Patent Warchest | Friendster, with 19 million worldwide monthly unique visitors (Comscore, August 2009) is no longer a leading social network in the U.S., but it did forge the trail for the MySpace’s and Facebook’s that came later. And they may be gathering ... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | Friendster Partners With Intelius. Let The Scams Begin. | I knew the glory days of Friendster were behind them, but I didn’t know things were this bad. The company is proudly announcing a partnership with Washington based people search company Intelius this evening. The goal, they say, is “to prov... |
| Sep 16, 2009 | Socializr Lays Off Staff, On DeadPool Watch | Socializr, the online event organization tool that first went into private beta in 2006, isn’t in good shape.
We’ve heard from a couple of sources that Socializr has laid off most or all of the staff and that the site is running on autopilo... |
| Jul 27, 2009 | Exclusive: Friendster Shopping Itself Around In Asia | Friendster, one of the oldest social networks, is actively looking for a buyer and has hired investment bank Morgan Stanley to find a party interested in acquiring the company or at least some of its assets.
According to documents obtained ... |
| Jul 27, 2009 | Any port in a storm: Social network Friendster up for sale | Popular-in-Asia social networking site Friendster is up for sale, according to banker documents obtained by TechCrunch. One of the earliest social networks, the company has been haunted by younger rivals, starting with MySpace, which became... |
| Jul 12, 2009 | Thanks Everyone: The Real Time CrunchUp + The August Capital Summer Party. | Update: We’ve got the photos up for you to check out.
Thank you to all of you who came out to support the 2009 Summer CrunchUp! We broke 600 attendees to the Real Time Stream CrunchUp, double our initial expectations, and we hosted lots mor... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | Win A Ticket To The Real-Time Stream CrunchUp This Friday | For the past few weeks, TechCrunchIT editor Steve Gillmor and I have been pulling together speakers and demos for our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp this Friday. What started as a roundtable and a few demos, quickly grew into a full-fledged mini... |
| Jul 6, 2009 | Going Once, Twice… Last Chance to Catch Tickets for Friday's August Capital Outing and Real Time Stream CrunchUp | The last batch of 150 tickets to attend our 4th annual summer outing on July 10 at August Capital are available now (now sold out), courtesy of Eventbrite. Once these go, the only way in is to attend our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp (which we ... |
| Jun 7, 2009 | Social Networks Around the World | Italian PR professional and former Microsoft Italy marketer Vincenzo Cosenza sent us an interesting visualization today. Below is a map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by country. The map was built using Alexa and Goo... |
| Apr 25, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: State of the Smartphone, Google Me, Oprah on Twitter, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the state of the smartphone industry, study new stats showing Facebook’s international market penetration, review ‘The Oprah Effect’ on... |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Friendster wires a money transfer feature to the Philippines | Friendster has just introduced a way to send and receive payments with friends on the social network through your mobile phone — if you’re using Filipino currency, that is. This is a smart way for the site to take advantage of the trusted r... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Hi5’s virtual entertainment plans could hit a virtual jackpot | Because Facebook is the largest, fastest-growing network in the world, a big question is what other social networks are going to do to compete. Hi5, with approximately 60 million monthly unique visitors, is in the process of making itself a... |
| Jan 20, 2009 | Social network Friendster refocuses business on Asian users | Friendster, one of the earliest social networks to grow big, is trying to capitalize on its Asian growth by expanding its business operations in the region. Singapore and Sydney, Australia will now host two key business offices, with former... |
| Jan 20, 2009 | Friendster: Asia's Social Network | Social network Friendster has over 30 million monthly visitors worldwide, says Comscore. The problem (or perhaps the opportunity) is that just 1.7 million of those visitors are in the U.S. The vast majority, nearly 28 million, are in the As... |
| Dec 8, 2008 | Friendster nabs fourth social-networking patent, dozen more pending | Friendster was the first modern social network to really gain traction on the web. But it has lost ground to rivals like MySpace and Facebook over the last five years or so due to a number of missteps. Nevertheless, it has gotten popular in... |
| Nov 3, 2008 | RIP: The Controlled Message | [Editor’s Note: It’s been several weeks since Sequoia Capital‘s ominous meeting with its portfolio companies warning of tough times ahead. Not much has changed since, but the message has sunk in across Silicon Valley. While Sequoia was full... |
| Oct 25, 2008 | Happy hours and hype on the social-networking sites | Where did everybody go? Recent Nielsen Online statistics reveal that the social-networking congregating online may not be hanging out where you think they are.
Nielsen's September numbers for thirteen sites with a significant social-network... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | The Valley's proponents become its critics | The squeeze will be noticed by companies seeking the next series of capital
Friday's stock market roller coaster was one to remember. With the Dow Jones Industrial Average at one point down more than 500 points early in the session, again, ... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | Friendster Launches Support For OpenSocial Apps | Friendster, the social network that has seen explosive growth in Asia but continues to lag behind Facebook and MySpace elsewhere, has launched support for OpenSocial apps on its development platform. Friendster initially launched its platfo... |
| Aug 11, 2008 | Friendster Hires Google South Asia Head As CEO; Gets $20M From IDG, Ot | Friendster Inc was first of the block in the social networking space, but had lost out after MySpace and Facebook made their entry into the networking scene. The company, however, has managed to attract a top Google exec as its CEO and IDG ... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | Another Google Exec Departs To Run Another Social Network: Kimber To Friendster | These social networks sure do like Google execs. Facebook hired Sheryl Sandberg, Google’s VP Global Online Sales And Operations, in March 2008. Bebo hired away Joanna Shields as President – previously she was Google’s Managing Director for ... |
| Jul 1, 2008 | Game maker Giant invests in Chinese social network 51.com | Scores of cities in China have more than a million people, and 51.com has beat out its rival social networks to be the most popular in many of them, even if it’s not the most popular in cultural centers like Shanghai and Beijing. It faces b... |
| May 20, 2008 | Roundup: HP earnings strong, MySpace exodus, Russia’s Google goes public, more | Here’s the latest (updated) action.
MySpace exodus begins? — Silicon Valley companies have long been vulnerable to start-up fever: Employees leaving to join faster-growing start-ups, lured by potentially lucrative stock options. Now Carol W... |
| Mar 6, 2008 | Graphing Social Patterns Recap | O’Reilly’s
Graphing Social
Patterns conference, which was held this week in San Diego, brought together key people who are shaping the newly
born social platforms industry; platform providers, app makers, investors,
advertising networks, et... |
| Dec 12, 2007 | Friendster, Bebo, LinkedIn all opening — aren’t waiting for OpenSocial | Friendster and Bebo are joining LinkedIn as the latest large social networks to throw open their web sites to outside developers.
Like Facebook, and a recent effort led by Google to do something similar with its “OpenSocial” project, these ... |
| Nov 12, 2007 | Why Are Founders and Execs Leaving Second Tier Social Networks? | Employees generally don’t leave hot startups. They lose some or all of their stock options, and they also lose the resume value of being associated with a startup brand. And that’s doubly true for executive level employees.
When an exec lea... |
| Oct 25, 2007 | Friendster launches developer platform, developers rushing in | Friendster, the social network that has been forgotten by many in the U.S., but which is thriving in Asia, is now opening its own developer platform, copying the move recently by popular site Facebook.
Third parties can build applications w... |
| Oct 24, 2007 | Friendster Announces Developer Platform; Can You Say "Commodity"? | Good thing we launched the CrunchBase widget, because you may need it to refresh your memory about a certain social networking company called Friendster that’s announcing its own developer platform today (okay okay, to be fair, they do have... |
| Oct 2, 2007 | Interview with Paul Cloutier: Making magazines matter | Paul Cloutier is CEO of 8020 Publishing, which publishes the magazines JPG and Everywhere.
Cloutier’s adherence to magazines in the Web 2.0 boom (or Web 2.0 fad?) paints him as a contrarian. He has some notable perspectives on the culture c... |
| Sep 24, 2007 | Friendster Plays To Strengths, Launches In Chinese | Friendster is back, at least in Asia.
The social network that was the coolest thing on the block until MySpace came around has been slowly regaining its reputation and users over the years, and now boasts 50 million registered user and 27.4... |
| Sep 12, 2007 | Yahoo wins Bebo ad deal | Yahoo! is to handle advertising for the UK and Ireland sites of Bebo, one of the largest social networks in the world. This is the the first such deal for the portal giant which until now had failed to get an advertising foothold in the rap... |
| Aug 31, 2007 | The rush to people search: Viadeo, ZoomInfo, Yahoo China, Spock…and PeekYou | For years, technology to search for people has been neglected, compared to most parts of the Web. Until now, that is.
A wave of new entrants are making it much easier to find out everything about a person, from their job, to their personali... |
| Aug 13, 2007 | iYomu, social network for adults, offers chance to win $1 million | iYomu, a social network targeting adults, is offering a $1 million prize in an effort to lure users. The contest starts today.
The New Zealand-based company says that the major social networks like MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, and Hi5 are desig... |
| Jun 25, 2007 | Friendster sees massive 40 percent page view boost in May | updated
Friendster, the early social network that stumbled badly three years ago and gave up leadership status to MySpace, Facebook and others, continues to recover — and its 40 percent page view boost last month is remarkable.
The site had... |
| May 17, 2007 | Roundup: E-fight, Voki avatars, young founders, Kokua, Imeem and more | Latest action:
Evite vs. Socializr continued — The bad blood between Jonathan Abrams, founder of Friendster and now founder of online event service Socializr, and the lawyers at Evite, is worse than we realized. The bitterness started durin... |
| Mar 30, 2007 | Parker’s Project Agape = Friendster + Facebook? | Entrepreneur Sean Parker’s latest undertaking is Project Agape, a secretive start-up working to empower people to further their political or social cause using the Internet.
Parker, 27, isn’t sharing much publicly about the company yet, but... |
| Mar 16, 2007 | Socializr, for planning events online | Socializr, a new San Francisco-based company that wants to help you plan events online, opens to the public today.
It is owned by Jonathan Abrams, the founder of the early social networking site, Friendster. When Friendster emerged four yea... |
| Mar 12, 2007 | Mii Transfer X: Swap Them Miis | Apparently, people are getting really into their Nintendo Mii creations lately. So much, that someone has released Mii Transfer X 0.1, a Mii-sharing tool that works on OS X . Basically, it lets you copy your Mii to your Mac so you can share... |
| Mar 8, 2007 | Roundup: The VC tax, Skype’s paid calls, Emotiv’s brain joystick | Here’s the latest action:
VCs may be vulnerable to new tax idea — Federal lawmakers are mulling a rule that would make venture capitalists pay much more in taxes. So far, venture capitalists’ profits have been classified as capital gains– a... |
| Feb 22, 2007 | VC firms grapple with generational change | Visit the venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road, and you’ll sense significant confusion about how to invest in the latest Internet technologies.
The old guard can’t keep up. Young, smart engineers are proposing ways to exploit the paradigm ... |
| Feb 20, 2007 | ImageChef, customized text in images | ImageChef, a four-year-old startup in San Francisco lets users simply add text within an image.
Anyone who has tried to do serious image editing know just how tedious it can get. Though the capabilities are currently limited (you can only c... |
| Jan 10, 2007 | Tech shakeout continued: Friendster, Backfence, Insider Pages, Orb updates | Despite fallout at social networking and other Web 2.0 companies lately, its clear that the problem isn’t lack of opportunity. Many companies still see strong growth ahead.
Check out social networking veteran Friendster.
The company lost $4... |
| Oct 24, 2006 | Two-timing, YouTube ruckus, French connection, the Friendster patents & more | Roundup:
Entrepreneurs who have two companies — The Mercury News has a story summarizing the exploits of the guys with two start-ups, Kevin Rose & Jay Adelson (Digg, Revision3), Scott Rafer (MyBlogLog, Mashery) and Evan Williams (Odeo, ... |
| Oct 15, 2006 | The woeful story of Friendster, and lessons | Gary Rivlin, of the New York Times, has just written the best overview yet of the terrific bungle of social networking company, Friendster.
Jonathan Abrams, founder of Friendster, had a great initial vision, and sparked the social networkin... |
| Oct 3, 2006 | Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet | Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard
MacManus. Note: there is also a poll at end of this post, which we invite you to participate in.
MySpace is booming in popularity; Facebook is gracing the
headlines again; Bebo is growing
incred... |
| Sep 13, 2006 | Abrams’ Socializr, an event site, launches; will it match Renkoo, others? | Jonathan Abrams, the founder of path-breaking social networking company Friendster, has launched a test version of his new site, Socializr.
The site says it is “a free web service for sharing event and party information with your friends. U... |
| Sep 12, 2006 | Can social networks steer user adoption? | (Editor’s note: With social networking company MySpace one of hottest companies on the Web, investors are asking how MySpace became such a success. Was it luck, or are there certain ingredients you can throw into a social network business s... |
| Aug 25, 2006 | Former Tribe leader Pincus back at helm; pledges “new direction” | Mark Pincus has just taken back the helm at San Francisco social networking company, Tribe. We heard about this months ago, but Mark would never say anything publicly, so we just kept waiting.
We just talked with Mark, shortly after he decl... |
| Aug 21, 2006 | Friendster Gets $10 Million More | Today’s WSJ has the details: Friendster Inc., the pioneering social-networking company that has lost ground to newer rivals such as MySpace.com and Facebook Inc., plans to announce today that it has received …
VentureBeat VentureBeat's miss... |
| Aug 21, 2006 | Friendster raises $10 million more; Facebook valued at $500M? | Friendster, the early social-networking company that got overtaken by companies like MySpace and Facebook, isn’t giving up.
Its traffic is recovering, even if it is still behind the leaders. And its backers are steadfast: Kleiner Perkins an... |
| Jul 10, 2006 | Friendster wins social networking patent, way late | Friendster, the early social networking company that stalled when younger rivals like MySpace passed it by, has won a social networking patent, as reported by RedHerring.
But if you look at the patent details, and consider precedent in this... |
| Jul 7, 2006 | Friendster awarded patent on social networking | Sagging social network Friendster was awarded a patent on some pretty fundamental qualities of online social networking late last month. The patent covers the determining and display of relationships between individuals who have entered per... |
| May 19, 2006 | Friendster raises $3.1 million; Good man Siegelman stepped in | We’ve just confirmed with social networking company Friendster some of news floating around in recent days, and want to clear up some misunderstandings in those reports.
Friendster’s original investors Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark have res... |
| May 18, 2006 | Friendster Mobs – Web Chat Coming | Since ceding social network dominance to Myspace in 2004, Friendster has gone through massive reorganizations, countless consultants and three CEOs. Even a Kleiner partner fell due in part to his mismanagement of the company at the board le... |
| Feb 2, 2006 | Friendster Recapitalized | Embattled social networking site Friendster, with an impressive group of investors that includes Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, BenchMark Capital and Battery Ventures, has not been able to keep up with competitors. Even so, not many ... |
| Dec 9, 2005 | Friendster’s “Eww” moment | Hi! Oh, Hi!
We continue to have problems finding direct links to WSJ stories, so here’s a roundabout link to the WSJ story about Friendster’s “Eww” moment, via Dow Jones’ other property, VentureWire (subscription still required):
Heather Gi... |
| Nov 11, 2005 | Scott Sassa, and the “Kleiner Shuffle” | Scott Sassa, by nndb
The latest board changes at Silicon Valley game publishing company, Digital Chocolate, provides insight into the central role venture capital firms play here.
Last year, well-known venture firm Kleiner Perkins helped re... |
| Sep 27, 2005 | Really Simple Web 2.0 | Mike
Arrington thinks Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 meme map should be simpler and Dave Winer responds,
saying it’s a complicated self-serving meme and pointing out that the map doesn’t include
RSS. I’ve been looking at the meme map closely, while... |
| Mar 24, 2005 | Friendster classifieds | It seems everyone wants a piece of the online classified ads pie these days. The newest arrival is from Mountain View social networking company Friendster, which just launched a listings site this week in the Phillipines. Joe Hurd, Friendst... |
| Oct 25, 2003 | Social Networking Software | This is another technology area I am thinking a lot about these days. It’s software that lets you connect to people and opportunities via your network of friends, colleagues, business relationships, etc. The first company that tried to buil... |
| Jun 5, 2003 | It's All About Who You Know | In business, networking with other people is often the most important part of your job. That said, consider me incredibly skeptical of the new breed of “social software” marketplaces that are popping up all over the place. Rafe Needleman at... |
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