Jonathan Abrams is founder and CEO of Friendster, one of the leading online social network services. With more than 4 million members, the company attracted $13 million in VC money last year.
In his well-attended SXSW Interactive ...READ»
Struggling website Friendster recently managed to patent a general form of online social networking. The patent, which Friendster initially filed when the site still had a respectable following three years ago, covers an online ...READ»
More fodder for FC Now readers' consideration of social software and its potential business benefits: BusinessWeek recently took a look at Friendster's success.READ»
The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Friendster, the wildly popular social networking site that's a people version of Napster (that's right, post your friends on the Web and pass them around), snagged a $13 million ...READ»
According to popular lore, Joe Kennedy got out of the stock market just before the crash of 1929 when his shoeshine boy started giving him stock tips. Kennedy figured if shoeshine boys were in the game, then there must be a bubble. ...READ»
Danah Boyd is an information management PhD student at the University of California, where she researches how people negotiate their presentation of self in online communities and other social contexts. Jon Lebkowsky serves as CEO of ...READ»
[video_twistage 1]Why did Friendster and MySpace fail where Facebook found phenomenal success? It's not that the site was better marketed, designed or had fancier code, according to Sean Parker, the former president of Facebook and ...READ»
The author of Fast Company's social network software Web exclusive takes a look at the complicity -- and competition -- among several company founders.READ»
A Kick In the Career: What happened to face-to-face networking? In this week's column, humorist and career expert Tom Stern wonders whether social networking is really conducive to launching one's career.READ»
This interview was conducted during research for my book, Viral Loop. You can read an excerpt here at Fast Company, or find out what your friends are really worth by installing the Viral Loop widget.
In 2002, Caterina Fake (her ...READ»
The future is something to get excited about again. Here's our look at the surprising people, ideas, and trends that will change how we work and live in 2005.READ»
Sramana Mitra's Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction
is a book for our time, because it's something real out of Silicon
Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings or startup-to-IPO
in six months. In this, the ...READ»
A huge part of running a successful business is being proactive—responding to e-mails as soon as possible, returning phone calls within the same business day, presenting new ideas for clients to consider, finishing projects ahead of ...READ»
Online dating is the best way to meet people across the globe. In fact, because of its anonymous nature, people get to know each other first (likes, dislikes, tastes, ideals, etc) before actually thinking of the pleasures of the flesh. READ»
Are you interested in sex? Would you say that publicly?
One of the things that has proven most problematic for people to experience -- and most interesting to observe -- as we collectively explore social networking online is the ...READ»
Danah Boyd is an information management PhD student at the University of California, where she researches how people negotiate their presentation of self in online communities and other social contexts. Anil Dash works as VP of ...READ»
