It was later overtaken by Myspace as well as Facebook and was ultimately shut down in June Friendster is or rather was a social networking website that allowed you to create user profiles and connect with as the name suggests your friends, family, and colleagues.
Much like Facebook these days, users were able to make new connections by adding them to their list of friends. To be able to join Friendster, users had to be 18 years of age.
Unlike Myspace , users on Friendster were actually using their real names. Friendster was later rebranded and relaunched into a social gaming site with a focus on Southeast Asian users. People were able to play a variety of games together, organize themselves in a community, and consume gaming-related news. Friendster, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, was founded in by Jonathan Abrams. Abrams, a Canadian native, moved to Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com bubble.
Subsequent roles in tech at various Valley-based startups would follow. As the story goes, Abrams had the idea for Friendster after his girlfriend broke up with him. He ended up registering on Match. Adams, alongside a group of developer friends, began working on Friendster in late In March , Friendster was finally unveiled to the public.
By fall , the site had amassed close to three million users — all while still being in its beta test phase. Its growth was fueled by dozens of media publications from sources as reputable as Time Magazine, Esquire, Vanity Fair, or Entertainment Weekly.
Around the same time, Friendster was also able to raise its first-ever institutional round of funding. Abrams declined since he believed that Friendster would be worth significantly more in the future. The board, comprised of Valley legends including John Doerr or Bob Kagle, became increasingly dissatisfied with Abrams and his antics.
The entrepreneur was seen frequenting parties instead of focusing to fix the many problems that befuddled Friendster.
In April , the company announced that Abrams stepped down from his role as CEO and was being replaced by Tim Koogle who had just joined its board. Koogle himself only lasted three months in his role, oftentimes not even being seen at the office. His eventual replacement became Scott M. Sassa who previously held the role of president at NBC Entertainment. In May , less than a year after his appointment, Sassa was already being released from his duties.
Furthermore, Friendster laid off 5 out of its 55 employees. Kwon was able to at least partially stop the bleeding. Under his leadership, Friendster completely redesigned its website, copying many of the features that made Myspace so popular such as the ability to publish blog posts. Joined: If you get no response there, or are directed here, then read on.
If you want to change your profiles, click here. If you want to make your background transparent, click here. If you need help with background images, please click here. If you want to change the mouse cursor, please refer to this post by clicking here. If you want help with cool hover effects for your images, click here.
If you want a website to host background images for you, try imageshack. If you have another problem not solved by one of the above posts, then please try the semi-official Friendster Profile CSS Editor, which can be found by clicking here. Please do not post your question more than once. Verschwindende wrote:.
Fri, Picture Effects Picture Effects hover etc Say for example you have a link that you want to give a background-image to. Then you add the background-image code: a. Then, once you have the hover image created in something like Photoshop or the Gimp you add the :hover rule: a.
Background Images Background Images All of the following must be placed within the body section of your css, e. To stop the background tiling: background-repeat: no-repeat; To stop tiling and place the background image in the center: background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center center; To fix the background so it stays in place when scrolling: background-attachment: fixed; To resize the image This cannot be done with CSS, it must be achieved with an image-editing application such as Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop or the Gimp.
Hugo's image stuff Transparent Backgrounds Hugo If you wish all your backgrounds and box borders to be transparent on your profile then please follow these instructions: N. Please read my instructions carefully and have a go at doing this, it should work for you.
Thu, Last seen: 15 years 18 weeks ago. Wed, The company founders wanted it to remain a private company. The company was looking for stability and kept losing market shares.
The company lost the war even before it started due to stability issues. The market already had various clone sites of Friendster. Even the Friendster investor built a site called Tribe. The company failed completely to poach back users in such an evolving landscape of this challenging industry. Right decision making is part of management. The company lacked basic skills to work things out.
They had a market fit product, they had users for the product and also the revenue. The company was highly mismanaged and misbalanced. For the success of social networks first and foremost it is important to focus on being social. This is only meant to create and bring in changes to fit in the market. Users eventually got bored out.
Here a very important lesson needs to be learnt from Facebook. Facebook first lured the audience with profile building and then they stopped playing around. For a long-term success which is still clearly visible they brought up a feature of news feed. This feature had a great importance in their success, it brought everything together by putting the friends updates, shares and discussions to the front.
People started getting interested as they could easily see the whereabouts of their connections. Problem not only lied in bringing new features but also in their focus and timing. Company lost track soon after its launch for not being tactful in decision making. Do tell us all your thoughts in the comments section below, we look forward to reading all the comments in the section below. Published in Blog and Startup Cemetery. The style that you write make it very comfortable to read.
And the theme you use, wow. That is a really good combination. And I am wondering what is the name of the template you use? Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Why Did Friendster Shutdown? Here is the complete analysis! Published September 8, by teambizzbucket. What was Friendster?
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