Friendster Gets a Second Chance in Asia
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The social networking site lost out to MySpace and Facebook in the U.S., but it's found a new life across the Pacific
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SONGJIANG NEW TOWN, China  - "Soul Partners", a new comedy series described as China's version of the U.S. TV hit "Friends", features six people in their 20s who live together after being separately tricked into buying the same apartment.
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Visit Japan's top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong "Mixi," and you'll see prim, organized columns and boxes of stamp-size photos &#151; not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The difference in appearance between the two online hangouts reflects a broader clash of cultures &#151; and illustrates the challenge News Corp.'s MySpace faces as it jumps into the Japanese market.
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The me-first attitude that makes the social networking site so successful in the United States may not play well in Japan, a more socially integrated society. By the Associated Press.
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The BBC received tens of thousands of emails from friends and relatives of people caught up in the Asian tsunami. Some of them tell the story of how they were reunited here.
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Itching to explore  the world but struggling to find friends with time to travel,  Ela Patel signed up to a companion-finding Web site and is now  packing for a trip to Argentina, just weeks after jetting off  to Vietnam.
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Fring is a cheap Internet-based phone service that runs over mobile networks.
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A company started on the whim of two longtime friends has been snapped up by the world's largest security software company.
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By Susan Williams  susanwilliams@wvgazette.com  TWO friends used the Internet to find each other after years apart, and now they use it to earn their daily bread.   Pamela Garza and Marilyn Jeffries lost touch following marriage and relocations.
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Itching to explore the world but  struggling to find friends with time to travel, Ela Patel  signed up to a companion-finding Web site and is now packing  for a trip to Argentina, just weeks after jetting off to  Vietnam.
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By Tony Deeley YOUNGSTERS in earth quakeravaged regions of Pakistan and Kashmir are back online after receiving a consignment of recycled computers from Walsall Council.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 21  /PRNewswire/ -- Friendster, Inc. (http://www.friendster.com/) today announced the successful deployment of its proprietary, next-generation, highly scalable graph server that tracks the connection relationships among its 45 million users around the world.
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K.J. Choi had a special audience Saturday at the Sony Open when 11 friends from his hometown in South Korea flew across the Pacific Ocean overnight to watch him play. He made it worth the trip with another strong performance to extend his lead.
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Winning abroad ain't easy for a loner -- hence, the help.
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BANGKOK (Kyodo) Kazumoto Niki considers himself a very lucky man. The 28-year-old Tokyo office worker arrived on the Thai resort island of Phuket at 8:45 am Sunday and boarded a bus for the nearby mainland
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ASIA has fallen in love with Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova - and the feeling is mutual. The 17-year-old Russian left for Europe yesterday with two more WTA titles after a successful three-leg swing
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Japan sees first Travel, Mobile Media Companions