Read more Friendster stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/15930/friendster.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:06:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/62074/how-myspace-lost-its-crown.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMySpace was overtaken by Facebook for the first time last month and without some serious innovation, Rupert Murdoch's big buy may end up joining Friendster in the ranks of the also-rans, Dawn Chmielewski and David Sarno write in the Los Angeles Times . The world of social networking moves at an...http://www.newser.com/story/62074/how-myspace-lost-its-crown.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 17 Jun 2009 7:50:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/27786/online-friending-grows-stranger.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHow many online friends is too many? Facebook insists users can only have 5,000—and that's not enough for some, discovers Stephen Levy in Newsweek. "Who am I to say no to friendship?" asks one user who spends 12 hours a day on Facebook and has a waiting list...http://www.newser.com/story/27786/online-friending-grows-stranger.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 18 May 2008 6:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/10626/google-out-to-smite-facebook-software-platform.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGoogle couldn't buy a piece of Facebook, so it's going after the social networking site's software platform instead. Tomorrow a Google-led alliance will introduce a common platform for software developers to write programs for Google's social site, Orkut, along with LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo, Ning and others. The hope is...http://www.newser.com/story/10626/google-out-to-smite-facebook-software-platform.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 31 Oct 2007 11:56:40 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/10514/google-to-blow-minds-with-facebook-rival-maka-maka.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGoogle is set to launch its hush-hush rival to Facebook next month. Code-named “Maka-Maka,” the watershed social networking service will introduce a completely open source platform and a slew of new applications. Details are scarce, but the vision is a social layer that combines all of Google’s existing services—think...http://www.newser.com/story/10514/google-to-blow-minds-with-facebook-rival-maka-maka.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Oct 2007 14:35:28 CDT