Friendster Archives - Boing Boing

Technology A guy bought Friendster for $30K and is rebuilding it to be more social, less network Ellsworth Toohey

History Rip.so, the graveyard of dead internet things Rob Beschizza
OpenAI in open panic over Gemini's sudden dominance Jason Weisberger
apple Apple fires misogynistic employee just hours after he was hired Mark Frauenfelder
social media Animated bar chart of the most popular social media networks from 2003 – 2018 Mark Frauenfelder
scholarship Young people hate Facebook because it forces them to have a single identity Cory Doctorow
videos Social scientists have warned Zuck all along that the Facebook theory of interaction would make people angry and miserable Cory Doctorow
Business Flameouts of 7 promising startups Mark Frauenfelder
timemachine Blogging History: NSA's Prism talking-points; UK top cops' multi-year fraud; Stanley Milgram's shocking biography Cory Doctorow
timemachine This Day in Blogging History: Pee-Wee skinsuit; Unearthed statue of teeny, 1800-year-old boxer; Warren Ellis on Orkut Cory Doctorow
This Day in Blogging History: Baking cakes in orange-peels; Boody Rogers's Dudley; Friendster's fakesters Cory Doctorow
timemachine This Day in Blogging History: Good people v bad people; Janes in Love; Friendster spider Cory Doctorow
Business Social media turns into boring old media Cory Doctorow
politics Homeland Security Internet Watch List leaked; Boing Boing omitted from list of must-read sites for domestic spying Xeni Jardin
writing Why writers should have their own domains Cory Doctorow
Will technology make us freer, and if so, how? Cory Doctorow
Friendster to erase user profiles David Pescovitz
Culture danah boyd explains email sabbaticals Cory Doctorow
Culture Social Media Theater Elisabeth Soep
Culture Why Twitter Will Endure: David Carr Xeni Jardin