Friendster was a social network game based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003.
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15 Facts About Friendster
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Friendster was one of the first of these sites to attain over 1 million members, although it was preceded by several other smaller social networking sites such as SixDegrees.
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The original Friendster site was founded in Mountain View, California, and was privately owned.
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Friendster was based on the "Circle of Friends" social network technique for networking individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon.
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In 2008, Friendster had a membership base of more than 115 million registered users and continued to grow in Asia.
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MOL's ownership of Friendster patents including one for a "System, method, and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks" and Friendster's other core technical infrastructure patents, were bought by Facebook for $40 million in 2010.
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Friendster said that the focus would now be on pure "entertainment and fun", and the aim was not to compete with Facebook, but rather to complement it.
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The Friendster Wallet was designed to support a variety of payment methods including pre-paid cards, mobile payments, online payments and credit card payments.
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Friendster launched all language support on a single domain – www.
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Friendster was the first global online social network to support Asian languages and others on a single domain so that users from around the world were able to talk to each other.
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Friendster has been an open site since August 2006 when it first began allowing widgets and content to be embedded in user profile pages through its developer program.
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Friendster's Developer Program was an open, non-proprietary platform with an open revenue model.
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Friendster was the first social network to support both the OpenSocial and the Facebook Platform.
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In June 2011, Friendster shifted from social networking site to a social entertainment site with a focus on gaming and entertainment.
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