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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Friendster

Friendster stories: 4 news summaries
ANALYSIS

 How MySpace Lost Its Crown 

Failure to innovate halts site's once red-hot momentum, letting Facebook take the lead

Jun 17, 09 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - MySpace was overtaken by Facebook for the first time last month and without some serious innovation, Rupert Murdoch's big buy may end up joining Friendster in the ranks of the also-rans, Dawn Chmielewski and David Sarno write in the Los Angeles Times. The world of social networking moves at an... More »

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social networking • Rupert Murdoch • MySpace • Facebook • Friendster • Twitter • Fox Interactive Media

ANALYSIS

Online Friending
Grows Stranger

Facebook, MySpace pals won't deliver chicken soup when you're sick

May 18, 08 6:00 AM CDT
(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... More »

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social networking • Internet • MySpace • Facebook • website • Friendster • online friend

Google Out to Smite Facebook Software Platform

'OpenSocial' to lure software developers away from Facebook

Oct 31, 07 11:56 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Google • Microsoft • Facebook • Orkut • Maka Maka • Friendster • OpenSocial

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

Upcoming rollout could revolutionize social networking

Oct 29, 07 2:35 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Google • Facebook • Orkut • Maka Maka • iGoogle • Friendster • open source

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