nytimes.com— Google offered Friendster 30 million dollars in in 2003. The young CEO said no, figuring his portal site would be worth billions in a matter of years. Ouch.
Oct 15, 2006View in Crawl 4
i think the real thing that killed friendster was it's crappy tech. they weren't ready to get that popular that fast and couldn't properly scale. i'm sure we all remember the pain in the ass that friendster was. i don't forsee digg having that problem.i remember pitching the friendster team on coming to a cio program that my company was doing back in '02. they blew me off and said they didn't need any help with their infrastructure. oops.
Every couple months or so some girl sends me a message inviting me to her webcam site. Then I forget I even have a friendster until the next one. I figured it wasn't worth my time even deleting it.
"Friendster’s fate is “a real puzzle,” Professor Piskorski said."Why the hell is this guy teaching a class on this... the website took 40 f**king seconds to load, of course it ended up failing, who would keep visitng a site like that? Especially with all the alternatives springing up.
Friendster has a lot of users in South East Asia (it seems like every single asian international student here in Australia is on it), and if they can find a way to monetise those users or at least shift their focus towards a market where they actually have some dominance, then maybe they can make a comeback - or at least some money.MySpace owns the U.S. now... that market is dead to them.
Simple solution. If someone posts diggspam in the comments, use Block/Report This User."Sending an email to Digg" about it isn't the way to handle it. Digg is self-policing. If enough users use the Block button, that person is banned from Digg. Simple and effective.
The problem with Friendster and Digg TODAY is that they are closed communities. What we need are OPEN networks and communties, not profile/content silos.
Yah friendster really penetrate the asian market... here in the Philippines more People own 1 to 4 friendster account... i personally have 4 aside from other accounts... While on the myspace people are more US based... The named DANTE on the FORUM always beat spammers... what i hate about myspace is the rampant adverting and spamming... sucks!!! while friendster limits their goal to focus on networking meeting of friend and friends and friends.... <a class="user" href="http://www.kanati.com.ph">http://www.kanati.com.ph</a>
Closed AccountOct 15, 2006
i think the real thing that killed friendster was it's crappy tech. they weren't ready to get that popular that fast and couldn't properly scale. i'm sure we all remember the pain in the ass that friendster was. i don't forsee digg having that problem.i remember pitching the friendster team on coming to a cio program that my company was doing back in '02. they blew me off and said they didn't need any help with their infrastructure. oops.
Closed AccountOct 16, 2006
Every couple months or so some girl sends me a message inviting me to her webcam site. Then I forget I even have a friendster until the next one. I figured it wasn't worth my time even deleting it.
Closed AccountOct 16, 2006
"Friendster’s fate is “a real puzzle,” Professor Piskorski said."Why the hell is this guy teaching a class on this... the website took 40 f**king seconds to load, of course it ended up failing, who would keep visitng a site like that? Especially with all the alternatives springing up.
raiden256Oct 16, 2006
Friendster has a lot of users in South East Asia (it seems like every single asian international student here in Australia is on it), and if they can find a way to monetise those users or at least shift their focus towards a market where they actually have some dominance, then maybe they can make a comeback - or at least some money.MySpace owns the U.S. now... that market is dead to them.
felchdonkeyOct 16, 2006
Simple solution. If someone posts diggspam in the comments, use Block/Report This User."Sending an email to Digg" about it isn't the way to handle it. Digg is self-policing. If enough users use the Block button, that person is banned from Digg. Simple and effective.
coltharpwOct 17, 2006
Everybody is mad because they know I'm right. Hurts huh?
realminnesotaOct 19, 2006
The problem with Friendster and Digg TODAY is that they are closed communities. What we need are OPEN networks and communties, not profile/content silos.
mikewilsonDec 24, 2006
I've never heard of Friendster...
streetsmartchicJan 31, 2008
Yah friendster really penetrate the asian market... here in the Philippines more People own 1 to 4 friendster account... i personally have 4 aside from other accounts... While on the myspace people are more US based... The named DANTE on the FORUM always beat spammers... what i hate about myspace is the rampant adverting and spamming... sucks!!! while friendster limits their goal to focus on networking meeting of friend and friends and friends.... <a class="user" href="http://www.kanati.com.ph">http://www.kanati.com.ph</a>