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Friendster Expands In Asia Pacific

If fortune favors the bold, Friendster is pretty much guaranteed to experience all sorts of success.  The social network has decided to defy economic trends by opening new offices in two different countries, and is also putting its media pull to the test by placing the announcement up against inauguration coverage.

Friendster Gets Friendly with Facebook

Friendster announced today that it is now supporting both Facebook and Opensocial apps. Integration with these has now become part of the Friendster Developer Program, though they've been supporting OpenSocial since August.

Friendster Gets New CEO, $20 Million In Funding

Friendster is a social network that almost never gets mentioned in the same breath as MySpace and Facebook.  Googlers living in Australia are also a little distance away from what's seen as the mainstream.  Add these two things together, though - and toss in $20 million - and you have an intriguing development.

Will Facebook Get "Friendstered"?

Anyone remember Friendster? It was an early entrant into the social networking scene. If they had done their work right they SHOULD have been a much bigger player than they are now. Why aren’t they?

Friendster Adds Fan Profiles

Friendster has introduced a new feature on its social networking site called "Fan Profiles" which lets bands, companies, celebrities, nonprofits and other groups promote themselves.

Facebook, Friendster Signal Changing Tide

The world of social networking is changing, but don't worry, it's not permanent. It's more of a tide than anything that reaches and recedes from all things. MySpace is changing, Facebook is catching, and Friendster is resurrected.

Friendster Coming Back? Puh-leeze

Matt Marshall over at Venture Beat has a post up about Friendster with a “returning from the dead” kind of vibe: Matt points out that the site — which is kind of the poster boy for early social-networking success, followed by equally rapid failure — has had what he calls a “massive” 40-per-cent jump in page views in May, to 9 billion (Facebook gets about 11 billion a month).

Social Network Users Get Around

Users of social networks are not very brand loyal according to Parks Associates "Web 2.0 & the New Net" report.

Friendster Drops Yahoo, Gets New Best Friend

It's a timeless story; a friendship that had all the makings of lasting a lifetime is torn to shreds when one of the parties drops the other in favor of a richer, cooler, and more popular pal. Playing the part of the jilted friend in today's dramatization is Yahoo, who appears to have once again been shafted by Google.

Google Becomes Buddies With Friendster

Google has been successful in many different, almost unrelated, endeavors, but one thing that it lacks is a popular social networking site. The search engine giant has, however, managed to establish an advertising deal with MySpace, and Friendster's CEO recently indicated that Google made a similar arrangement with his company.