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Friendster Announces Support for Facebook Apps

by Jordan Yerman | October 3, 2008 at 08:57 am

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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, though, and remains very popular in Asia, where Facebook has poor penetration. Now, though, a new development may shake things up... Friendster has opened its platform to Facebook widgets, which will bring more features to Friendster while opening more doors to Facebook in the East.

"Friendster's support of both the Facebook and OpenSocial platforms is a big win for business and individual developers, as well as for Friendster users," David Jones, vice president of global marketing for Friendster, said in a release. "For the developers that have invested resources in developing and launching a Facebook app, Friendster has now made it very easy for them to 'port' these applications to Friendster...For Web 2.0 companies that have developed apps using Facebook and OpenSocial APIs, they now have the flexibility to choose between approaches when launching applications on Friendster."

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