Social Networking Today

PlacePop joins mobile loyalty program frenzy, gets funding boostVentureBeatThe San Francisco company, led by former Friendster CEO Kent Lindstrom, today began offering cards that can be accessed with smartphones ? and you can do ...and more »

Teen convicted of sexual assault on 12-year-old girlfriendTODAYonlineSaifulddin got to know the girl through the social networking website Friendster in August last year, according to court documents. ...

Man pleads guilty to sexual assault of 12-year-old girlChannel News AsiaA district court heard that Muhammad Saifulddin Abu Samad, 18, got to know the minor through the social networking website, Friendster, in August 2009. ...and more »

For all its might, Google is no 'product-killer'CNNOrkut, a Friendster-like service that Google commissioned, which was only a success in some markets like Brazil and India. - Lively, a Second Life-like ...and more »

Twitter building its own data servers ? finally!msnbc.com... a good thing, but failing to scale has been a killer for other promising tech companies, most notably Friendster," notes Silicon Alley Insider. ...Twitter building a new data center to kill off 'fail whale'National Post (registration) (blog)all 332 news articles »

Growth in Asia helps Facebook top 500 millionSan Francisco ChronicleThen there's Facebook's meteoric rise in membership, which left social networking competitors MySpace, Friendster and Bebo in the dust. ...Facebook has accomplished its 500 million members</a>TopNews Arab EmiratesAs Facebook hits half a billion users, industry watchers wonder if 1 billion ...Los Angeles Times (blog)The Facebook Effect by David KirkpatrickThe GuardianBuffalo News -ZDNet Australia -Oakland Tribuneall 988 news articles »

Flipboard's Social-Mag App Is Good, but Far From GreatThe Big Money (blog)Did we learn nothing from Friendster, the social-network pioneer that burned through millions of Kleiner Perkins' dollars before being blindsided by MySpace ...and more »

Five things that could topple Facebook's empireCNN... since died (Geocities), lost their luster (Yahoo) or faded into irrelevance (Friendster). So how could Facebook lose its place at the center of the web? ...and more »

The Daily Startup: Some Internet Moguls Still Use FriendsterWall Street Journal (blog)Speaking of non-Western Internet companies, suddenly, Friendster is where it's at once again. Facebook signed a deal with the early online social networking ...

Facebook Ties Up With Friendster's Asian ParentWall Street JournalMOL isn't a stranger to the social-networking sector: The company acquired Friendster Inc., one of the first successful such sites, in December 2009 for an ...Facebook Partners Malaysia's MOL for Payment CreditsBusinessWeekFacebook Puts Virtual Currency Into DrivepaidContent.orgFacebook Credits Available Offline at Asian, Australian RetailersMashable (blog)DigitalEastAsia.com (blog) -VatorNews -AllFacebook (blog)all 297 news articles »