Tag archive: Friendster

We were first introduced to Altly about a month ago, when ex-MySpace exec and former CEO, Dmitry Shapiro, tweeted that he was creating an alternative to Facebook. Other than that vague premonition, the site’s been coated in a thick layer of ambiguity. But now it appears it’s got some legs in the form of $1 million Shapiro has raised – with one of the investors being none other than Tom Anderson of MySpace fame himself. The site has two major… Read More

1 Before there was Facebook, before there was MySpace even, there was Friendster. Jonathan Abrams and Peter Chin launched their social network in 2002 — not that we knew what such things were at the time — and the revolution that followed has gone on to change the world in some fundamental ways. As the first player on the scene, the service was quickly improved upon by the aforementioned competitors; people continue to use it, but in… Read More

There's nothing like a good infographic to teach us something too boring for simple text. This lengthy graphic chronicles the “history of social networking,” from the very first email sent in 1971 to several of the social networking sites that dominate the Web today. Along the way we meet several ill-fated sites and services like Usenet, Geocities, TheGlobe, SixDegrees, and Friendster. Did you know that the first version of… Read More

A trend analysis from AddThis was reported by Mashable this morning, and it reveals that a whopping 44 percent of online sharing happens on Facebook. Last year, the social networking site was the platform for 33 percent of online sharing, and its growth has only made it more dominant. And there is no clear second – following Facebook are over 300 alternative services out there (think Twitter and Digg) that are competing for a piece of the share… Read More

These days social networking seems to be focused on services like Facebook and Twitter, but it's easy to forget those outfits are relative newcomers to the game: one of the earliest social networking services out there was Friendster—and, just like Facebook and Twitter, it's struggled for years to find a way to turn its service into a money making enterprise. Now, Friendster might have found a benefactor: Reuters reports that an… Read More

A big part of the news this morning is about Microsoft buying a stake in social networking service Facebook. Part of what makes Microsoft value the social networking outfit at something approaching $15 billion dollars is that Facebook was the first social networking service to offer developers an API which enables them to create custom applications and services on top of Facebook—with results ranging from garage sales to…well,… Read More