Desperate Friendster Gets Overly Generic Patent
Posted Saturday, July 8th, 2006 10:33 am by Mike Abundo
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You know a company’s truly reached the depths of lameness when their only hope for survival is suing competitors using an overly generic patent.
Five million Filipinos use Friendster, so it pisses me off when they reach for that depth. The languishing social networking service just patented A System, Method and Apparatus for Connecting Users in an Online Computer System Based on Their Relationships within Social Networks.
This is why, like Tila Nguyen, I now prefer MySpace.
Tom Anderson must be laughing his ass off.
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[...] Right now, I hate both MySpace and Friendster. The former is a walled garden; the latter is a glacier. I would much prefer an open, noncommercial [...]
I maintain accounts in Friendster and Myspace but Myspace is better because you can customize your profile further unlike friendster. My proof:Number of friends(as of my last check)
MYSPACE: 1050
FRIENDSTER: 132
In additional opinion, Myspace is a better marketing site than friendster.
[...] Meanwhile, wannabe patent troll Friendster can’t even hold down a tiny office on a third-world Pacific island. No wonder all the hottest Filipina babes are switching to MySpace. [...]
Mon: Good point. MySpace should integrate that feature. LinkedIn does.
Mike,
My point was that friendster, like flickr and digg now, used to be “cool” and “hip.” Now it appears to be going the way of the dodo.
Sad if they do fail, since Friendster was interesting to see how many “degrees of separation” between one person and another.
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