From Yik Yak to Friendster, there have been plenty of short-lived social media sites that were popular one day and gone the next. Only a handful of social media platforms have dominated our ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- This is the way social networks end: Not with a bang, but a "pivot." Friendster, a pioneering social networking site launched in the pre-Facebook days of 2002, has been ...

See About archive blog posts. Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams at the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose in 2007. Courtesy of Abrams Facebook, with more than 250 million active users, and Twitter ...

Hey is the subject heading that each of these lovely ladies chose for the messages they sent me via Friendster, a social-networking site that I haven’t visited with any regularity since 2006.

Jonathan Abrams knows a good party. He co-owns Slide, a trendy bar in San Francisco. He invested in two restaurants in the city's Marina neighborhood, Mamacita and Umami. And each year, he holds a ...

Friendster has landed a $10 million investment, providing the struggling pioneer of social-networking sites with funds to try to recapture defecting users and establish new friendships. The ...

With a million members and counting, servers for six-month-old Web site Friendster are staggering under demand. Copycat competitors to the site are cropping up, and rumors of imminent subscription ...

Friendster announced a relaunch last week and, responsible journalist that I am, I wanted to sign up for an account and investigate the service thoroughly before ripping it to pieces. The first ...

On December 10 2009, leading Southeast Asian payment provider MOL bought the pioneering social network Friendster for $39.5 million. Kuala Lumpur-based MOL is owned by Malaysian billionaire Tan ...

I then raised the subject of Friendster. They were the social Web before MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, you name it. But that was three years ago. And as the New York Times' Gary Rivlin brilliant ...

Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED Since its inception, the social-networking service Friendster has taken a militant stance against members posting fake profiles of cartoon ...

See About archive blog posts. Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams poses in front of the logo for his start-up company, Socializr, at a Lunch 2.0 event in 2007. Credit: Terry Chay The millions of ...