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Social networking service
Friendster is a social networking service originally based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2002. Before
Friendster
losing its American audience, Friendster slowly gained users from Southeast Asia starting in the Philippines. Friendster director of engineering Chris
Social media use in the Philippines
Social_media_use_in_the_Philippines
American entertainment executive
Friendster, a top 50 Internet site that pioneered social networking. Friendster was backed by Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital. After Friendster
Scott_Sassa
Canadian engineer
engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is best known as the founder of Friendster where he worked from 2002 to 2005. He then founded Socializr, where he
Jonathan_Abrams_(businessman)
Social networking service (1997–2000)
successful sites based on the "social-circles network model" such as Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Facebook. MacroView (later renamed to SixDegrees
SixDegrees.com
Virtual online communities
platforms gained widespread popularity with BlackPlanet (1999) preceding Friendster and Myspace, followed by Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Research from
Social_media
settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly held by rival Friendster. The majority of the companies acquired by Meta are based in the United
List of mergers and acquisitions by Meta Platforms
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the original on 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2016-07-26. "Friendster.com - Living the Game". www.friendster.com. Archived from the original on 2002-11-20. Retrieved
Timeline_of_social_media
Korean-American entrepreneur
tools and strategy to grow from 15,000 members to 20 million. Song joined Friendster, a social networking company, after a six-year stint at eBay. She was
Mary_Lou_Song
American social networking service
Viant Technology LLC. In August 2003, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw potential in its social networking features. The group decided
Myspace
Businessman and public official (born 1971)
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Elon_Musk
American entrepreneur (born 1963)
Associates from 2003 to 2004. While an investor, he provided seed funding to Friendster, a social networking service. In December 2003, Baszucki, along with Erik
David_Baszucki
American internet entrepreneur (born 1970)
of Myspace in August 2003. He founded the site partly as a reaction to Friendster and its policy of blocking accounts that did not use real names. Intermix
Tom_Anderson
American technology executive and investor
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Keith_Rabois
Filipino mutineers (c. 2003–2008)
Magdalo Group in 2008. The group uses social networking websites such as Friendster and Facebook to recruit supporters across the Philippines. The Samahang
Magdalo_Group
Social networking website
tagging, rather than creating explicit interpersonal links (as seen in Friendster and Orkut). Users created accounts and then listed a number of goals or
43_Things
Multiplayer game creation platform
company and Baszucki began investing in earlier social media sites like Friendster. Around this time, Baszucki came up with the idea of a physics sandbox
Roblox
South African-American entrepreneur (born 1972)
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David_Sacks
American electric vehicle and clean energy company
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Tesla,_Inc.
Social networking website
contributed to the development of subsequent social networking services such as Friendster, founded by Jonathan Abrams in 2003. Ngak, Chenda (July 6, 2011). "Then
Ryze
San Francisco-based venture capital firm
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Founders_Fund
has been sold. Friendface is a portmanteau of the social network sites Friendster and Facebook. Going to the website "friendface.co.uk" used to take the
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Image and video hosting website
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Flickr
American internet entrepreneur (born 1967)
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Reid_Hoffman
Russian social networking service
Association of Internet Researchers Conference (2006). boyd, danah. "Friends, friendsters, and top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites" Archived
LiveJournal
American venture capital firm
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Benchmark (venture capital firm)
Benchmark_(venture_capital_firm)
Public specification aimed at social networking applications
applications using version 0.7 to be launched on Friendster and reach Friendster over 75 million users. Friendster also plans to support additional OpenSocial
OpenSocial
American social networking websites (1999–2011)
Karen DeMars Pillsbury. It pre-dated social networking sites such as Friendster, MySpace and Facebook. eSPIN was a spin the bottle-like social networking
ECRUSH
American entrepreneur and software engineer (born 1979)
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Jawed_Karim
Group dedicated to web archiving and digital preservation
preservation of services such as GeoCities, Yahoo! Video, Google Video, Friendster, FortuneCity, TwitPic, SoundCloud, and the "Aaron Swartz Memorial JSTOR
Archive_Team
Ukrainian-American software engineer
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Max_Levchin
Chinese businessman
tried to create a Chinese version of the then-social networking site Friendster. His first such site was called Duoduoyou (兜兜友; lit. 'Pocket–Pocket Friends')
Wang_Xing
Defunct American social network for short videos
Likee (formerly LIKE) Snapchat TikTok Path BlackBerry Messenger Mig33 Friendster Skype "It's been five years since Vine shut down. Where are the most popular
Vine_(service)
Movement to self-host and control web content
technical architecture of the web and user-facing tools such as GeoCities and Friendster. GeoCities was a free web-host that hosted millions of personal HTML-based
IndieWeb
Early internet startup
domain as the product's website. Although teamed with networking site Friendster, reviews were bad and sales were poor. A lawsuit was filed by Sprint Nextel
TheGlobe.com
American entrepreneur & diplomat (born 1975)
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Ken_Howery
Defunct American investment management and hedge fund company
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Clarium_Capital
American venture capital firm
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Mithril_Capital
Polish-born American entrepreneur; co-founder of PayPal
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Luke_Nosek
Term for a group of former PayPal employees
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PayPal_Mafia
American entrepreneur and philanthropist (born 1979)
had experience in the social networking industry as an early advisor to Friendster and its founder, Jonathan Abrams, for which he was given a small amount
Sean_Parker
Academic concept used in communication
in the early 2000s in reference to social media sites like Myspace and Friendster. The concept of context collapse has become much more prominent with the
Context_collapse
Los Angeles-based venture capital firm
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Thiel_Capital
American musician (born 1997)
Year Album "Rollin' " (Ethereal featuring Faye Webster) 2017 Mankind "Friendster" (Wieuca featuring Faye Webster) Local Celebrity "No Way" (Ethereal and
Faye_Webster
2010 film by David Fincher
by Myspace: "If the same story was behind the invention of MySpace or Friendster, I would have written that. Two separate lawsuits were brought against
The_Social_Network
Venture capital fund
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Valar_Ventures
American Internet entrepreneur (born 1966)
interfering with this. Pincus was a founding investor in Napster, Facebook, Friendster, Snapchat, Xiaomi and Twitter. He was also an early investor in JD.com
Mark_Pincus
Japanese competitive eater and singer (born 1985)
Daily. Gal Sone's blog Wired.com profile by Lisa Katayama gal's official friendster profile EatFeats (competitive eating) blog Natsuko "Gal" Sone category
Gal_Sone
Online platform used to build relations
1999, Makeoutclub in 2000, Cyworld in 2001, Hub Culture in 2002, and Friendster and Nexopia in 2003. Cyworld also became one of the first companies to
Social_networking_service
American writer
original on January 16, 2007. The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster--and How Nine Other Startups Left the Rest in the Dust(Sean Ammirati,
Charles_Ardai
American media personality (born 1981)
Nguyen joined Myspace in the fall of 2003 after getting booted off of Friendster multiple times. She says that "At that time no one was on there at all
Tila_Tequila
Malaysian entrepreneur
in global social media and mobile internet companies such as Facebook, Friendster and Kakao. In 2017, Ganesh founded Commerce.Asia, an eCommerce platform
Ganesh_Kumar_Bangah
Prime Minister of Thailand from 2001 to 2006
Connection – Thaksin Shinawatra connected to Carlyle Group". Political Friendster. 7 May 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2010.[permanent dead link] MSU alumni
Thaksin_Shinawatra
American technology executive, public company board member and public servant (born 1969)
executive at Facebook, Inc., and was part of the founding management teams at Friendster, Inc. and VideoEgg, Inc. (now SAY Media, Inc.). He is a member of the
Joe_Hurd
and offered custom search bars and search results for websites such as Friendster. By November 2005 they claimed to have 25+ million monthly searches. On
Eurekster
Effects used to alter an image's appearance
Edmodo Ello Emojli eWorld Eyegroove FitFinder FriendFeed Friends Reunited Friendster Gas Google+ Google Buzz Google Currents Grono.net Heello Hello Highlight
Filter_(social_media)
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
investments in numerous startups, including Airbnb, Slide.com, LinkedIn, Friendster, RapLeaf, Geni.com, Yammer, Spotify, Practice Fusion, MetaMed, Vator,
Peter_Thiel
Filipino actor and singer
Retrieved October 29, 2025. Gian Magdangal at IMDb Gian Magdangal on Friendster Archived 2007-09-09 at the Wayback Machine Gian Magdangal's cast profile
Gian_Magdangal
Community music produsage website
by Neeru Paharia (then Assistant Director of Creative Commons) as a "Friendster for music" with the intent of exposing the genealogy of remixed music
CcMixter
Differences between genders with regard to use of social media and social network service
to have used many different services, including Facebook, MySpace, and Friendster; these differences persisted in several models and analyses. Although
Sex differences in social media use
Sex_differences_in_social_media_use
Filipino rock band
V.O." "Late Ka Na Naman" "Dot Song" "Bintana" "T.Y.P." "Lumiliwanag" "Friendster" "M.V.O." "Di Kasi" "Di Kita" "Girlfriend" "Damang-dama" June 1, 2007
Moonstar88
SixDegrees.com in 1997, Makeoutclub in 2000, Hub Culture in 2002, and Friendster in 2002. However, the first profitable mass social networking website
Social_media_and_psychology
Aggregation of web content
Bebo Facebook Friendster Hi5 LinkedIn MySpace Ning Orkut Plaxo Bebo 25% 2% 3% 1% 65% 1% 0% 0% Facebook 4% 2% 2% 2% 64% 1% 1% 9% Friendster 5% 23% 4% 6%
Social_network_aggregation
American businessman
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Russel_Simmons
Japanese actress (born 1993)
homepage (also source) (in Japanese) Mirai Shida at IMDb Shida Mirai TV appearance information (in Japanese) Official Mirai Shida friendster[dead link]
Mirai_Shida
2006 Malaysian TV series or program
the Wayback Machine What Women Want Friendster Authorised webcast of What Women Want Mohd Hafiz bin Adnan's Friendster Charles Brunold's Myspace Archived
What_Women_Want_(TV_series)
Filipino-American R&B girl group
release their 4th studio album ISO, which contained the singles "What If", "Friendster", "Joy & Disgust", "Astro 101", and "Trapeze". 1999: Just the Beginning
One_Voice_(girl_group)
American writer (born 1967)
Old Legends, New Voices. Vintage. 2021. ISBN 978-0-59308-189-1. "Best Friendster Date Ever". Kink. Simon & Schuster. 2021. ISBN 978-1-9821-1021-5. "Portrait
Alexander_Chee
29th Philippine senatorial election
Koko Pimentel made use of the internet by joining networks sites like Friendster; making or updating Wikipedia entries, establishing blogs and websites
2007 Philippine Senate election
2007_Philippine_Senate_election
Australian software engineer and entrepreneur
She then joined Friendster where she led the team of mobile product management. There she launched a novel revenue based on Friendster-only data packs
Cathy Edwards (software engineer)
Cathy_Edwards_(software_engineer)
American businessman
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Eric_M._Jackson
American venture capital firm
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Sequoia_Capital
Filipino singer and record producer
Language Film on the 81st Academy Awards. On May 29, 2009, she supported Friendster Cares, a benefit concert for the education of less-fortunate kids. In
Nina_Girado
new era also brought into existence social networking websites, such as Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter, and photo- and video-sharing websites
History_of_the_World_Wide_Web
American social networking service
Group for $60 million. List of social networking services VK Facebook Friendster Orkut Internet portal Raice, Shayndi (December 14, 2011). "Tagged acquires
Hi5
American venture capital firm
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Greylock_Partners
Academic research sharing website
Edmodo Ello Emojli eWorld Eyegroove FitFinder FriendFeed Friends Reunited Friendster Gas Google+ Google Buzz Google Currents Grono.net Heello Hello Highlight
Academia.edu
American singer-songwriter
had a special interest in Ounsworth's songs, contacted him in 2004 via Friendster about starting a band. After several contacts, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Alec_Ounsworth
Use of the Internet as means of monitoring users' activities maliciously
recently, through social networking sites, such as MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, Twitter, and Indymedia, a media outlet known for self-publishing. They
Cyberstalking
Japanese actor
Official Blog Official Profile at Watanabe Entertainment Shunji's Official friendster page[permanent dead link] D-BOYS official website Wikipedia Japanese article
Shunji_Igarashi
Multi-sport event in Singapore
The Games organisers used online media to market the event, including Friendster, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress and the official Youth.sg 2010 discussion
2010_Summer_Youth_Olympics
Term in psychology and sociology
interest for the study and engineering of virtual communities, such as Friendster and LiveJournal. Trust escapes a simple measurement because its meaning
Trust_metric
Cell phone model
internet via GPRS. The phone can access different web or mobile sites like Friendster, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Google, YouTube, Multiply etc. The phone
Nokia_5300
Polish academic
platforms, including Facebook, Zynga, LinkedIn, eHarmony, Twitter, MySpace, Friendster, Meetup, mixi, adMob, Wikipedia, and Yelp. Misiek has also written articles
Mikolaj_Piskorski
Term used in psychology and philosophy
social media domains: general social networking sites such as Facebook and Friendster, and blogging sites. The predictiveness of an attribute was defined as
Thin-slicing
Filipino actor and dancer (1988–2008)
Archived from the original on December 12, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2008. Marky Cielo at iGMA.tv Marky Cielo at IMDb Marky Cielo at Friendster Fansite
Marky_Cielo
Genealogy and social networking website owned by MyHeritage
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Geni.com
available sources, including Wikipedia, IMDb, ESPN, LinkedIn, Hi5, MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, corporate biographies, university
Spock_(website)
American tech scholar (born 1977)
Francisco, where she met the individuals involved in creating the new Friendster service. She documented what she was observing via her blog, and this
Danah_boyd
and SIP based services and some social networking services like hi5, Friendster, and all dating sites like Yahoo! Personals and Match.com. A 2005 study
Telecommunications in the United Arab Emirates
Telecommunications_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates
Interpersonal communication theory
sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, hi5, myyearbook, or Friendster affect interactions between human beings. On Facebook, users are able
Social_penetration_theory
2004 Flash movie
a service unique in that it requires no human intervention. In 2002, Friendster is released. In 2003, Google buys Blogger. In 2004, the rise of Gmail
EPIC_2014
Japanese multinational doughnut chain
19, 2023. Milian, Mark (February 13, 2014). "Mister Donut, Pan Am and Friendster Found Alive and Well". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved September 27
Mister_Donut
Dog themed social app
is one of the largest mobile communities for dog owners. "Four-legged friendster: Dog tech takes off - SiliconValley.com". 2014-05-21. Archived from the
Dog_Land_(app)
Social networking service
MySpace and Six Apart join Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle as announced Google partners. "Viadeo's "Global-Yet-Local"
Viadeo
Actions on social networking services
Sciences (PDF). Vol. 102. pp. 11623–11628. Boyd, Danah (2006). "Friends, Friendsters, and MySpace Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites"
Friending_and_following
2011 American TV series or program
Times writes that Paris comes off as "a Sony Walkman in an iPod era, a Friendster in the age of Facebook." Brian Lowry of Variety writes the show reeks
The_World_According_to_Paris
2004 video artwork
group moved to New Orleans and worked in a restaurant while searching Friendster for an audience. They sent DVDs to those who responded positively to their
A_Family_Finds_Entertainment
Speculative bubble involving social media
to connect with others for personal, professional, or dating reasons. Friendster and MySpace were next to enter the social SNS arena, followed by Facebook
Social_media_stock_bubble
Annual listing of popular musicians compiled by the weekly British music magazine NME
contemplating a remix of "Take Me Out" 7th: Busted 8th: Pubic lice 9th: Friendster 10th: Tim Jonze 2005 Courtney Love 2nd: Eminem 3rd: Dominic Masters (The
NME's_Cool_List
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Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit
Full of Effulgence; Energy
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish
English and Irish : habitational name from Dudley in the West Midlands, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.Irish (County Cork) : English name adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + dá ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.Thomas Dudley (1576–1653), born at Northampton, England, sailed on the Arbella to Salem, MA, in 1630 with the chief men of the Massachusetts Bay Company. They first settled at Newtown. Dudley subsequently moved to Ipswich but then permanently settled at Roxbury. He was elected four times as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and as one of the two commissioners for the colony when the New England Confederation was formed in 1643. He was one of the first overseers of Harvard University, and in 1650, as governor, signed the charter for that institution. Dudley’s seventh and most noted child, Joseph (1647–1720) was also governor of MA (1702–15).
Boy/Male
German Scandinavian
Strong counselor.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Sayer 1. This English name is also well established in Ireland.Irish : Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Saoghair (see Sears).
Girl/Female
Indian
Bestowed of longevity
Girl/Female
Arabic
Aristocratic Lady
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Honest; Wise; Exalted Knowledge
Male
Portuguese
Variant spelling of Portuguese Hélder, ÉLDER means "slanting surface."
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Punjabi, Sikh
Enthusiastic Hero
Boy/Male
Sikh
Epithet of God
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