{"id":2130,"date":"2007-05-29T07:43:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T12:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2007-05-29T07:49:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T12:49:56","slug":"friendster-founder-details-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/friendster-founder-details-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendster founder details failures (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 1 pm EDT <a href=\"http:\/\/wunc.org\">WUNC&#8217;s<\/a> Dick Gordon interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jabrams.com\/\">Jonathan Abrams<\/a>, founder of Friendster. <a href=\"http:\/\/thestory.org\/archive\/to-have-a-friend\/view\">The Story<\/a> is described here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jonathan Abrams founded Friendster &#8211; the first online social network to attract millions of users. The site was wildly successful after its launch in 2002, and by 2003, Jonathan faced two options: sell out to Google for $30 million, or partner with private investors.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan chose to partner, and in his eyes, things went downhill from there. By 2004, Friendster had been eclipsed by sites like MySpace and, more recently, Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Dick talks with Jonathan about what he learned from the success and later failure of Friendster, and how he plans to compete with a new social networking project in what has become a very crowded field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 1 pm EDT WUNC&#8217;s Dick Gordon interviews Jonathan Abrams, founder of Friendster. The Story is described here: Jonathan Abrams founded Friendster &#8211; the first online social network to attract millions of users. The site was wildly successful after its launch in 2002, and by 2003, Jonathan faced two options: sell out to Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}