Social networks open doors to developers

ocial networks open doors to developers By Janie Christine Octia INQUIRER.net First Posted 15:42:00 11/09/2008 ...

Friendster Announces Support for Facebook Apps

Long before Facebook, there was Friendster. A pioneer of online social networking, it suffered from outages and technical problems just as MySpace was picking up steam. Friendster corrected its errant path,...

TheGlobe.com: Where are the stars of Web 1.0 now?

I can't believe it took so long to happen but the Silicon Alley Insider has done a piece tracking the stars of Web 1.0.  On the list are Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot, who I worked for in the late...

Twitter down over there! No, literally.

Twitter might have gone fown for more than 37 hours in the first four months of 2008 -- working out to roughly 9 hours / month -- but even that can't seem to stop twitchy microblogging-junkies from twittering at...

Facebook Stays Cool While Yahoo Warms Up To OpenSocial

Google's OpenSocial APIs may be gaining a major new adherent this week. According to the New York Times, Yahoo is expected to join the group that includes MySpace, Plaxo, Bebo, Hi5, Orkut, LinkedIn, Six Apart, Oracle, salesforce.com and Ning, among others. In fact, Facebook...

Friendster deploys developer program, launches 180 applications

"These applications, called "widgets" throughout the industry, have been integrated into the Friendster user experience by developers leveraging Friendster's Developer Program, released as a pilot program on October 25, 2007 and now fully deployed at...

How to delete your Facebook account

Facebook has been the Web 2.0 success story of 2007. But what if it falls out of favour in 2008 and you want to delete your account?  It seems not to be all that easy to remove all those personal details from Facebook.  "Ah, Facebook. The real champion. Impossible...

Friendster now available in Japanese and Korean

"Friendster now supports five of the top languages on the Internet -- Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and English. These languages represent 66 per cent of the world's Internet users, or approximately three quarters of a billion Internet users in...

Asian singer Karen Kong debuts first Chinese album on Friendster

""Karen is a perfect example of how artists can utilize Friendster Fan Profiles to reach and connect with their global fans and increase their fan base in a new, exciting and interactive way," said Jeff Roberto, marketing director at Friendster. "On their official Fan...

Facebook use predicted by race, ethnicity, and education

Talk about free research for social networking sites(SNS) - researchers at Northwestern  surveyed over 1000 students at the University of Chicago to determine whether ethnicity, race, or the amount of parental education were related to a student's choice of SNS. "“That...

Friendster launches Fan Profiles

"The Friendster Fan Profile engine consists of: -- You (the artist or organization): By creating and updating a fan profile and inviting fans to join your network, you set off a chain reaction of notifications on and off Friendster. Your fans receive updates every time you...

Is Spam the Future for Friendster?

"Onetime social-networking leader Friendster has announced a new feature called "Fan Profiles," which is essentially a way for celebrities, bands, companies, nonprofit organizations and other entities to...

Friendster Launches in Traditional Chinese

"Top Ten Languages Used on the Web(2) (Number of Internet Users by Language) TOP TEN % of All Language LANGUAGES Internet Users by Internet Growth on the ON THE Internet Language Penetration Internet INTERNET Users (Millions) by Language (2000 - 2007) English 31.2 % 366 17.9...

Bloggers: check out BlogBackupOnline

"From PCWorld via Yahoo... If you have a blog and you aren’t sure that your blog provider will always have a backup in case of a crash, head over to BlogBackupOnline pronto. The site is straightforward: Log in, enter information about your blog, and the site diligently...

Rapspace in XXL

I'm sitting here with Mike Tippett and he is showing me Highlight..."With social networks like MySpace and Friendster running at full capacity, it's no surprise that Web sites have started turning separate forming separate cliques. Lately the Internet has seen the spin-off of...

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