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  • May 2008
    • Online Friending Grows Stranger

      Online Friending Grows Stranger

      (Newser) - How many online friends is too many? Facebook insists users can only have 5,000—and that's not enough for some, discovers Stephen Levy in Newsweek. "Who am I to say no to friendship?" asks one user who spends 12 hours a day on Facebook and has a waiting list of 500 would-be pals. Levy even discovers a mere potato on MySpace with 2,695 friends. More »

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      Internet   Facebook   social networking   MySpace   website   Friendster

  • October 2007
    • Google Out to Smite Facebook Software Platform

      Google Out to Smite Facebook Software Platform

      (Newser) - Google couldn't buy a piece of Facebook, so it's going after the social networking site's software platform instead. Tomorrow a Google-led alliance will  introduce a common platform for software developers to write programs for Google's social site, Orkut, along with LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo, Ning and others. The hope is to one-up Facebook, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Google   Microsoft   Facebook   OpenSocial   Friendster   Orkut   Maka Maka

    • Google to Blow Minds With Facebook Rival ‘Maka-Maka’

      Google to Blow Minds With Facebook Rival ‘Maka-Maka’

      (Newser) - Google is set to launch its hush-hush rival to Facebook next month. Code-named “Maka-Maka,” the watershed social networking service will introduce a completely open source platform and a slew of new applications. Details are scarce, but the vision is a social layer that combines all of Google’s existing services—think GoogleChat, iGoogle, Orkut—and incorporates outside data, TechCrunch reports. More »

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      Google   Facebook   open source   Friendster   Orkut   Maka Maka

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