Comments on: Friendster Mobs - Web Chat Coming

By: Our Friendster Mobs is on TechCrunch!

Our Friendster Mobs is on TechCrunch! — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:39:55 +0000

[...] Found at TechCrunch [...]

By: evil one

evil one — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:05:55 +0000

i dont know and dont understand how to start to use friendster mobs/chater mania….can you help me…….and tell me how????…pliz……

By: lala

lala — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:38:31 +0000

whats up

By: agus holil

agus holil — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:58:32 +0000

i dont understnd how to join as chater mania in friendster ……can u hel me ..

By: Web Based Yahoo Messanger

Web Based Yahoo Messanger — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:10:02 +0000

Dave…

Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future…

By: Friendster Mobs? -- Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines’ Premier Technology Blog

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:20:13 +0000

[...] TechCrunch did a quick review of F Mobs (or FM, there seems to be a lot of codenames) last May which noted that MySpace had earlier launched an IM client of their own. [...]

By: JL101

JL101 — Tue, 23 May 2006 14:07:12 +0000

Not to get on a soap box for Friendster, but I think it is a great move by them. They do have a bigger following than many of the fringe, wannabe social networking sites. If they build some better functionality into the site, they might re inspire users to actually stay on Friendster. I agree with Wan about the AJAX-based IM. This may seem like a shameless plug, but I have been intrigued by this new site http://www.lostcherry.com/john101, a niche social networking site. They have an IM called the shoutbox that is AJAX based and very easy to use. I think these guys are leading the charge in this area. I did check out AOL’s new networking site as well. As lame as AOL is, they are putting a lot of time an energy into their site. At the end of the day, Friendster has a bigger user base. If they position it well, they might actually save themselves.

By: Wan Zafran

Wan Zafran — Sun, 21 May 2006 01:33:26 +0000

Now this is something interest. Being a fairly casual user of Friendster I can now look forward to keeping in touch with people I know through Friendster, instead of having people populate my IM list, many who I never speak with at all.

I do hope that it’s AJAX-based; I’m not in the mood for any downloadable or Java-based clients.

Actually, I’m not in the mood for ANY new IM system at all. I’m swamped with them already. But hey, who knows, this might be useful.

By: biatos

biatos — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:08:19 +0000

premium SMS business model -> sounds good

By: Nuno Bastei

Nuno Bastei — Fri, 19 May 2006 08:38:43 +0000

What is “Friendster Mobs” all about? Because according to one post published in 2004 on the Business 2.0 blog, they should already have one. VoIP-enable. And on its web site of the IM provider, the info is already the same. More info here.

By: Startups.in

Startups.in — Fri, 19 May 2006 07:07:30 +0000

Thanks Terence. But I think it’d be nice if it’d allow me to view all my “friendsters” using my mobile..

Regards,
Nag @
Startups.in

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Fri, 19 May 2006 06:22:40 +0000

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 19 May 2006 01:42:08 +0000

I wonder how many are here to try to pump Friendster act II. The burn rate must be getting some alarm bell off.

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:16:49 +0000

Looks pretty interesting, but definitely won’t be the app to overtake MySpace, FaceBook, etc..

By: The Stanford Grad » Blog Archive » MOB is the new STER

The Stanford Grad » Blog Archive » MOB is the new STER — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:45:44 +0000

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By: Jamescoops

Jamescoops — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:05:29 +0000

Friendster should be focusing on building mobile functionality - based on their experience in the Phillipines that’s the one area that could give them the edge.

By: Dimitar Vesselinov

Dimitar Vesselinov — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:58:06 +0000

Is Friendster back from Hades?

Top Ten Social Networking Sites (NWS, GOOG, MSFT)
http://internetstockblog.com/article/10720

Google Trends: myspace, friendster, facebook, orkut, xanga
http://www.google.com/trends?q.....p;date=all

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:42:55 +0000

Why is everyone using this new web chat and not using a flash front end with jabber/xmpp?

whats the benefit?

By: Terence Pua

Terence Pua — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:31:18 +0000

Nag@Startups

No need to download anything. Everything is SMS-based. They just hit reply as if they were responding to a “normal” SMS.

Terence

By: Wenas Agusetiawan

Wenas Agusetiawan — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:29:01 +0000

My problem with friendster is that it is going to be the next asianavenue.com. I dont see how friendster mobs would help friendster in anyway because as people said there are IMs. Why do you have to worry about IM when your infrastructure is not scalable. It takes 400 % larger than myspace to open a page in friendster.

By: James McGraff

James McGraff — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:21:57 +0000

Sure this IM will add value to Friendster. It will help proliferate mobile usage of the site/brand in the Phillipines. (Which is already huge.)

There is no sizable ad market in the PI, so mobile is the only way to make money. 90% of Friendster’s traffic now comes from the Phillipines, Malaysia, and other Southeast Asian countries. The recent growth in page views is nice, but its non-US traffic and mostly non-monetizable traffic–non-monetizable UNLESS you move to the cel phone, which is where you can make a little bit.

Friendster’s biggest problem is that its only strength is in internet markets without a lot of money (southeast asian). It’ll never be a big business unless it can regain the US market, which MySpace took over.

Clarification: Both MySpace and Friendster have used Userplane for their web-based IM for over 2 years. MySpace used it first, then Friendster followed. MySpace’s web-based IM is currently disabled while proliferates its downloadable IM.

By: Michael Jones

Michael Jones — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:21:42 +0000

The clarification is correct - Userplane provides web-based IM for US Friendster users currently and are working on expanding the communication platform to other areas for Friendster!

We look forward to working with Terence and his team on the delivery of Friendster’s IM to Pusit.com : )

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:38:10 +0000

Shout Central has been doing this for months and with our upcoming version 2 release it will blow that stuff away.

Everyone is just hashing and rehashing the same stuff.

http://www.shoutcentral.com

By: Social Degree » Friendster Web Chat On The Horizon

Social Degree » Friendster Web Chat On The Horizon — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:24:19 +0000

[...] As reported by Techcrunch, Friendster is rumored to be building a web chat client to integrate into their social networking platform. It is common knowledge that Friendster was the first well known SN to popularize the friend of a friend system. Ever since their early days they have been really struggling, losing a lot of members to Myspace and Facebook. [...]

By: Brian Balfour

Brian Balfour — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:12:24 +0000

I’m not really sure how much value an IM client is going to add to friendster. Like other people stated there are already a ton of other dominating IM clients on the market.

The behavior of most people is to meet someone on a social network, get their AIM (or Y!, MSN messanger) and add it to that client.

Bottom line, this is not a feature that will attract more users or traffic which should be the primary goal of friendster at this point.

-Brian Balfour
http://www.SocialDegree.com