Since its inception, the social-networking service Friendster has taken a militant stance against members posting fake profiles of cartoon characters, political figures, celebrities and bogus people.

Friendster recently sent a mass e-mail to try to make new friends for its social network. Instead, it made some enemies. The one-time hot spot dug deep into its network to pull out the e-mail ...

Is some patent medicine the prescription Friendster needs to get back on its feet? A pioneer in the area of online social networking, the company and its Web site quickly fell from grace. Now it's ...

A recent NY Times article entitled “Wallflower at the Web Party” told about Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams and his decision NOT to accept a $30 million buy out offer from Google a few years back, ...

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 ...

A little less than a year ago tech entrepreneurs Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman invested a combined $310,000 for 5% of Friendster, then a little-known Web site founded by former Netscape engineer ...

Sagging social network Friendster was awarded a patent on some pretty fundamental qualities of online social networking late last month. The patent covers the determining and display of relationships ...

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The life span of a trend — in the physical world or online — is by definition short. On the Internet, so many “groundbreaking” Web sites have the shelf life of a dairy product. Some examples: ...

Friendster has gone live as a social gaming portal, the latest incarnation for one of the pioneers of the social networking space. The new Friendster uses Facebook Connect as a social-networking ...