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Net media darling Friendster should have become a billion-dollar company. What happened? Founder Jonathan Abrams who invented social networking tells us all.

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05/24/2007
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antispy 11 days ago

Wow! thanks

Anonymous about 1 year ago

cool but here is a good idea sneak in ana chop their head off when their not looking

puiuhi about 1 year ago

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yok about 1 year ago

heow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sugu about 1 year ago

hi, how r u??

Chief P over 2 years ago

Sorry, get the facts correct. Friendster was not even close to being the first social network. ever hear of Six Degrees 1997 ? I believe, Friendster bought six degrees patent. But in any case Six degrees preceded Friendster and so did PlanetAll which was purchsed by Amazon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com

Anonymous over 2 years ago

How can this article have been published in June 2007 when its still May. Am i missing something.

Anonymous over 2 years ago

Yeah it's pretty shocking how friendster threw hardware at the "slowdown" problem and didn't look at analytics!

Yeah, hindsight is 20/20 but if you have a website you need to measure what's going on.

Anonymous over 2 years ago

This story repeats itself, search for 'slide' and you'll see that a large chunk of the story is duplicated.

cmennucci over 2 years ago

this is a huge article and I loved it! I have a great idea myself that I'm working on and this article was invaluable. thank you!

ninjapirate007 over 2 years ago

good to know

Anonymous over 2 years ago

"Too many cooks in the kitchen." Always maintain power of your own company. Friendster definitely serves as a good lesson on what not to do. One small mistake by Abrams made such a huge impact. Granted, I'm sure there were other problems. I never liked how restrictive Friendster was with the creative aspect of their profiles. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20. Wow, this comment is full of fun cliches!