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Friendster Now Friends With Facebook

Dominic Rivera — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:47:38 +0000

Friendster is now officially friends with Facebook. Asia’s social network of choice announced that it has deployed support for Facebook Platform as part of the Friendster Developer Platform. Developers can now introduce the applications and features they’ve built on the Facebook Platform to its community of 80 million users.

This move makes Friendster the first social network to become friends with Google’s OpenSocial and Facebook.

“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,” said David Jones, vice president of global marketing for Friendster. “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, enabling them to tap into Friendster’s 80 million users. 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.”

Friendster is (Still) Alive with $20 Million and New CEO

Dominic Rivera — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:22:17 +0000

Asia’s social network of choice Friendster, Inc. announced that it has closed $20 million in funding led by new investor IDG Ventures. The new lease of money will allow Friendster to extend its leadership in the Asia Pacific region and continue to grow and monetize its global user base.

Friendster also announced the appointment of Richard Kimber, formerly the regional managing director of Google at South Asia where he dramatically increased the search engine’s revenue in the Asia Pacific region.

“Utilizing the Internet to connect to your friends is one of its greatest benefits, and is changing the way relationships work globally. With more than 75 million users, it is clear that Friendster has already made a dramatic impact. I look forward to growing our business further as we continue our global growth and strong focus on Asia,” Kimber said.

Friendster boasts of having 55 million registered users and 33 million monthly unique visitors from Asia alone, with the remaining 20 million from all over the globe.

Impressive numbers but they should try setting a stronghold in the US as well.

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