Comments on: Friendster Announces Developer Platform; Can You Say “Commodity”?

By: Friendster Launches Support For OpenSocial Apps | Christian eBuddy Blog

Friendster Launches Support For OpenSocial Apps | Christian eBuddy Blog — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:40:16 +0000

[...] has launched support for OpenSocial apps on its development platform. Friendster initially launched its platform last October, but has restricted available applications to those developed especially [...]

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Friendster Launches Support For OpenSocial Apps — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:07:01 +0000

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Business News Research » Friendster Launches Support For OpenSocial Apps — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:41:49 +0000

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Friendster Launches Support For OpenSocial Apps — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:15 +0000

[...] MySpace, has launched support for OpenSocial apps on its development platform. Friendster initially launched its platform last October, but has restricted available applications to those developed especially [...]

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Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:03:52 +0000

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By: Open Social Developers Lab » Blog Archive » Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:49:03 +0000

[...] (called “hosts”) that choose to participate.What they haven’t done is launch yet another social network platform. As more and more of these platforms launch, developers have difficult choices to [...]

By: Catalyze This » Blog Archive » Facebook doesn’t matter anymore

Catalyze This » Blog Archive » Facebook doesn’t matter anymore — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:46:39 +0000

[...] realized the value of it, and are copying it fanatically. MySpace, Google, Yahoo, and now even Friendster have all come up with strategies on how to make their APIs more open and attractive than [...]

By: Andy Arnott

Andy Arnott — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:39:00 +0000

Does anyone even use friendster anymore?

By: Kallol Borah

Kallol Borah — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:22:04 +0000

I wonder how developers actually start using the API because I can not see a system to obtain the API key from friendster, may be, i have missed something ? I can see only documentation but no way to start implementing.

By: share.websitemagazine.com

share.websitemagazine.com — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:03:21 +0000

Friendster Announces Developer Platform; Can You Say “Commodity”?…

Friendster’s platform announcement comes five months after that of Facebook and not even a week after that of MySpace, the company that usurped Friendster a few years ago….

By: webswarm

webswarm — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:07:53 +0000

what’s with the copycat talk?
Is anyone under the misapprehension that Facebook invented the Developer API??

By: Wil Schroter

Wil Schroter — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:57:00 +0000

It blows my mind at how consistently undervalued Friendster is.

By: autumnmoon

autumnmoon — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:36:27 +0000

live on Nov 30? I thought it is live TODAY!

go to Friendster.com to see it

Under Explore -> Widget Directory

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:48:56 +0000

Can you say “stupidity”?

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Clyde Smith

Clyde Smith — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:08:14 +0000

When the 7th Stage is Complete ALL Will Be Revealed!!!

By: Jessica Mah

Jessica Mah — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:44:14 +0000

Facebook already has the first comer advantage. The developers have done work on facebook and trust it well.

Myspace widget companies too have gone far… (photobucket?)

Of course, everybody is still waiting for the day a widget company can really monetize.

By: sanmat

sanmat — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:44:17 +0000

This shows that the web 2.0 is getting matured day by day. When open source was started people and groups wondered, where the money will come . And you all know now what happened. The reality is that money will flow once things are opened up as usual.

http://blogkatt.blogspot.com

By: Jughead

Jughead — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:10:14 +0000

As widgets become more robust, useful and coveted, Facebook could begin to see pressure to open their API to cross functionality. Keeping widgets in platform silos is as bad as DRM for music. It’s just not cool and because of the rapid adoption of increasingly useful widgets by the masses, that’s going to become clear sooner than later.

By: jay

jay — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:04:13 +0000

i still have many friends who are active users on friendster. by being the first kid on the block, friendster got a lot of people who didn’t want to up and move their network. those users (30+ mostly) happen to be older than facebook and myspace users, but have spent 5 years on the platform, and also have more disposable income. adding widgets means even here in the states, friendster is a player.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:51:33 +0000

Interesting news… seems social networking sites have realized that they will suffer from a collective demise sooner then later, development platforms are another jolt to the “dime a dozen” heart but…. clear…. pzzzz….. alright, we got a pulse… but it ain’t a strong one!

Time to cash-out while you still can!

Jon

By: me

me — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:58:05 +0000

I hate to beat this point ….. there is more then the American Market in the world. Because something doesn’t cross the “american snob” test it must not be good.

Take off the blinders of “what is popular in america must be the best in the world” That is a typicaly american ideal.

@# Mike Dragan - I think it’s an interesting re-start but they are still catching up with the competition. Still long until they can make their way in the big league.

Open your eyes man …..50 million users ….vs FB 40 million …..

Take the blinders off and realize that there are only 300 million people in USA …in a world that is 6 billion …..that means there are 5.7 billion non americans on the planet ….Seems like a bigger vision then being limited to the USA.

By: Mark Mayhew

Mark Mayhew — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:06:47 +0000

I created a social network, on ning.com, do I even have a platform there (to open up?!)
http://facebookeconomy.ning.com

By: alan p

alan p — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:06:20 +0000

Facebook only has 40m odd users, so 50m is no sneeze, and MySpace has 100m + …..there seems to be a certain amount of Facebook mania going on that belies the economic facts.

I think the gist of the article is correct, developer platforms on SocNets are commoditising - and getting your widget in early (as was shown in Facebook) has major benefits.

Also, if I was a widget developer I’d want mine on F/B, MySpace, Friendster etc as (i) ite a greater reach and (ii) I can start to aggregate the service myself.

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:44:45 +0000

I doubt Freiendster have strong base of developers like facebook better they could have introduced any unique feature rather than copying someone else idea.

By: ian

ian — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:20:53 +0000

I dunno… I would, I think, consider myself in the big league at 50 million users. Maybe they’re not monetising quite as well as facebook, but I would say 50 million users has some potential (well, you could start your own country or something).