Posts Tagged with ‘friendster’

Big news today is that Friendster got a new CEO and a substantial investment. You thought Friendster was dead already? Think again, it actually seems to have big plans for the future. I thought Friendster was long forgotten myself and after a quick search today I found that we only had one (!) post in the 2 years of Profy existence dedicated to Friendster only. But no matter how long ago we forgot Friendster, today the pioneer in social networking [...]

What is the name of the social network slated to be put first to the open markets?
That question has been dogging pundits and investors alike for quite some time. And now we’ve got an answer: Classmates.com.
Yes, Classmates.com. One of the few social networks so fortunate to be born of the Friendster era. The place marketed as the salvage yard for connections lost (and connections never had) among alumni of both elementary schools and collegiate environs. The website that [...]

Google’s finally let the cat out of the bag.
The company announced yesterday its intentions to create a project, dubbed OpenSocial (corresponding webpage is not active yet; Nov 1 is lauch day), very basically described to be a set of APIs, that will allow multiple platforms on the Web to play by a “universally” accepted common set of laws that will enable developers the option to “create applications that work on any social networks…that choose to participate.”
The reasoning for the [...]

By now, you can pretty much call it a necessity for a social network to offer a platform for developers to create applications for. First was Facebook, and now MySpace, LinkedIn, Hi5, and several others have joined the fray.
Friendster is the latest addition, having announced that it is working on the Friendster Developer Program. This set of APIs will be just like other offerings, allowing developers to build applications that can be inserted into the profiles of Friendster users, [...]

I first heard about Beautiful Society when Mashable featured it, which meant I had to check it out.  At first glance, it was certainly attractive, but I'm not sure I would call it one of the most pleasing to the eye out there.
Sign up was easy, but what really struck me were the number of comments and messages I received after only having been a member of the society for a short while.  Just as on MySpace with "Tom" being [...]

Cre8Buzz is a new social networking beta with a clean, crisp interface.  More visually pleasing than MySpace, free of the distracting games and applications of FaceBook, yet more interesting and “hip” than LinkedIn, this is social networking for the young adult set.
At the moment, Cre8Buzz is still in beta, which means you need an invitation from a beta tester like myself to try it out.  If you want an invite, let me know in the comments and I'll see about [...]

One of the best things about social networking is the power for an individual or group to spread a message about…almost anything. Be it a product, event, a service, or something else entirely, word gets across. Fast.
Therefore, Declare Yourself, with the help of BNC, a PR firm, has decided to put its request for 100% of 18-year-old American citizens or older to register as voters through Web locales like MySpace (DY's MySpace page), YouTube, Friendster (DY's Friendster page), [...]

I'm starting to get the feeling that many of these new "sites" are just ideas to add to existing community sites like MySpace, Friendster, and the like. A perfect example of this new trend of building a feature you hope will be purchased is the new site Famousr, a bare-bones site that is essentially three little games. The first shows two celebrity photos and asks you to choose which is more famous. You get points for each correct answer, as [...]

A few weeks ago, I started noticing a trend in some of the latest community site releases from some heavy hitters. iVillage was rolling out a new community feature. Even the usually hyper-paranoid-about-image Disney was launching a user-created content site. There definitely seems to be a trend with companies to attracting women, particularly mothers, to Web 2.0 sites.
However, as I started looking at these sites, and others I would have assumed were also being helmed by women, I noticed [...]