Topic: Friendster Inc.

Social Networking; Bubble or Bankable?

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»

Deja Vu All Over Again? III

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»

Friendster Patents Social Networks

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»

Deja Vu All Over Again?

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»

What the Heck Is Social Networking?

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»

The Aesthetics of Social Networks

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»

A Cautionary Tale

Rumors of Facebook's refusal to sell to Yahoo set off a chorus of predictions that it would repeat Friendster's fall from grace.READ»

Between the Lines: Six Degrees of Competition

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 Little Help from Your Friends

Forget online dating. Online business networking is where the really sexy stuff is happening.READ»

The Network Unbound

How TagWorld and other next-generation social networks could feed your business--and maybe even change the world.READ»

Can Facebook Really Replace Employment Firms?

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»

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Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake on the Value of Viral Loops [Exclusive Q&A]

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»

Fast Forward 2005: <span>59-62</span>

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»

Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction

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»

Fast Forward: The Customer Experience

Creative Good's Mark Hurst offers his top 10 trends for 2005, focusing on technology and the user experience.READ»

Fast Forward: The Customer Experience

Creative Good's Mark Hurst offers his top 10 trends for 2005, focusing on technology and the user experience.READ»

Don’t Get Lazy with Social Networking!

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»

The L Factor

What accounts for success and failure? More often than you might think, it's just luck. But like most things, luck can be managed.READ»

Tips to successful online dating

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»

Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

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»

Networking Overload

Meet "snam," the junk email generated by social networking.READ»

Blogging Next

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»

Citizen Media: The High School Years

A yearbook portrait of the citizen-journalist upstarts trying to rule the media school. READ»

Urban Tribes and Social Dark Matter

Ethan Watters wrote the book Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment. His SXSW Interactive addressed how our self-chosen communities are nodes in large, complex networks of such groups. What follows ...READ»

Why Facebook Won't Sell

That's a very strong title, I know. But it's not mine, and it's not as bad as it sounds. It was written by Paul Scrivens, an FC Expert blogger, designer, and one of the founders of blogging community 9rules, on his own blog ...READ»