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Friendster. Friendster was a social network based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003. [2] [3] Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. [4]
Jonathan Abrams [1] is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is best known as the founder of Friendster [2] where he worked from 2002 to 2005. He then founded Socializr, where he worked from 2005 to 2010, and Nuzzel, where he stayed from 2012 to 2018. He has invested in over 50 companies, including Docker and Instacart. [3]
The developers initially considered "10958" as the service's short code for SMS text messaging, but later changed it to "40404" for "ease of use and memorability". Work on the project started in February 2006. Dorsey published the first Twitter message on March 21, 2006, at 12:50 p.m. PST (UTC−08:00): "just setting up my twttr".
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.
SixDegrees.com was a social network service web site that initially lasted from 1998 [1] to 2000 [2] [3] and was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking. It was named after the concept of six degrees of separation [4] and allowed users to list friends, family members and acquaintances whether registered on the site or not.
The number seems to be a mail service. The last known company was Friendster Sdn. Bhd., incorporated in Malaysia in 2011. It dissolved in 2015 but kept the Friendster name and company registration number 0950151-H. Records show it is still registered to them.
Edwards later moved overseas to work as a project manager at 3jam, a text message developing company based in San Francisco. She then joined Friendster where she led the team of mobile product management. There she launched a novel revenue based on Friendster-only data packs and SMS packs sold via phone carriers.
BBCode ("Bulletin Board Code") is a lightweight markup language used to format messages in many Internet forum software. It was first introduced in 1998. The available "tags" of BBCode are usually indicated by square brackets ( [ and ]) surrounding a keyword, and are parsed before being translated into HTML. [1]