Comments on: Friendster Philippines Office closed down?

By: Camz Ü

Camz Ü — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:42:55 +0000

please tell us naman how can we get our old pix…. i hope na you’ll give us a chance….i know what we ask is too much but please understand we LOVE OUR OLD FRIENDSTER!!!! AT SINO BANG MAY GUSTO NG BAGONG FRIENDSTER!!!! BRING BACK OUR OLD FRIENDSTER,,,PICTURE,,,COMMENTS,,,,ETC…!!!!!! :

By: carlo

carlo — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:07:03 +0000

hi i need help on how to retrieve my old pictures i cant open friendster anymore please help!

By: fulai

fulai — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:14:23 +0000

Based on my research, they dont have plans to return old pics sa friendster.. Friendster didnt realize or didnt care on how important those pictures for us… kaya magandang gawin ay…. BOYCOT them!!! mas maganda pa ring maglaro ng games sa Facebook!!! at nakapagshare ka pa ng kahit ano unlike Friendster (crap!)

By: elanie

elanie — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:00:06 +0000

hindi n b maibabalik p ang mga old pics sa friendster…

By: lesterp0gi

lesterp0gi — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:02:18 +0000

Laos na ang Friendster dahil sa Facebook !! Mas maganda kc Facebook !! Baduy ang friendster !! pang Jejemon !! Yuck kadiri !! Facebook rules !! Rest In Peace Friendster. We will not miss you Facebook is now the King of Social Networks !!

By: tiles bathroom

tiles bathroom — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:56:08 +0000

I have viewed other articles and comments which are broadly in agreement with Friendster Philippines Office closed down? but I have to admit that this item has some supplemental info. There is no smoke without fire and in that respect there are no remarks without posts.

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By: Eric Rudolf S.A. Barongan Sr.

Eric Rudolf S.A. Barongan Sr. — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:18:58 +0000

May be Friendster Philippine Office was really had closed down, that is why it is no longer found now a days.

By: Friendster Philippines is looking for Senior Product Manager | YugaTech | Philippines, Technology News & Reviews

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:00:29 +0000

[...] Friendster Philippines used to be with Pusit, Inc. but is now with moved on to Entertainment Gateway Group Co. (Hyper Application on Mobile; EGG). Full job requirements and specifications can be found here. {hat tip to Raych} [...]

By: merika oribello

merika oribello — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:59:22 +0000

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By: i.ph upgrade; Legal Forum back up at Atty-at-Work

i.ph upgrade; Legal Forum back up at Atty-at-Work — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:35:20 +0000

[...] I mentioned earlier that the Atty-at-Work started at i.ph, but had to move due to bandwidth limitation. i.ph upgraded its system over the weekend, which appears timely considering that the Friendster’s local office, as noted by Abe, had closed down. [...]

By: The Mike Abundo Effect » Murdoch: MySpace Now Worth $6 Billion

The Mike Abundo Effect » Murdoch: MySpace Now Worth $6 Billion — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:01:17 +0000

[...] Meanwhile, wannabe patent troll Friendster can’t even hold down a tiny office on a third-world Pacific island. No wonder all the hottest Filipina babes are switching to MySpace. [...]

By: aj

aj — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:01:04 +0000

@miguel:

here’s your answer…
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/nov/12/yehey/career/20061112car1.html

By: demonique

demonique — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:13:29 +0000

What’s with your content.. shouldn’t you be blogging on Google’s new acquisition or books.googler.com or something.. heck with friendster and all those filipino code monkey.. FYI.. they’r too incompetent to finish the jobs..

your fool of crap!

By: JC John SESE Cuneta

JC John SESE Cuneta — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:11:32 +0000

jayvee..

[quote]
i read somewhere (was it from duncan riley?) that social network monetization is very bad. CPM is something like 0.001 cents.
[/quote]

You just don’t know how bad
Our company lost millions (my former employer that is) :p

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:14:14 +0000

Either the Pusit group, or Friendster, should come out with an official statement so they could end this speculation.

By: GigaOM » Friendster Philippines Office closed?

GigaOM » Friendster Philippines Office closed? — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:06:26 +0000

[...] Hey could this be true? Friendster has shut down its office in one of its biggest markets? Couldn’t be – maybe they relocated! [...]

By: Techno Pinoy » Blog Archive » Philippines in Digg

Techno Pinoy » Blog Archive » Philippines in Digg — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:39:42 +0000

[...] The next news item is further evidence of the decline of Friendster. Yuga reports that the office of Friendster Philippines, formerly known as Pusit.com has closed. “It’s possible that Friendster Ads and Friendster Classifieds weren’t successful in monetizing the service about the 5 million Filipino Friendster user (sic),” he opines. [...]

By: Rickey

Rickey — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:09:43 +0000

Being first, doesn’t account for much apparently in this situation.

The reason why Friendster failed is because their servers got so slow and unusable, all the early adopters from the U.S. left, and never came back or gave a damn. The article I linked to sums it up pretty nicely.

I guess you stick to where your friends are that’s why so many Filipinos are still using Friendster.

With 75% of its user base outside the U.S., this American company is now forced to service cultures it is completely alien to. I don’t know about you guys but isn’t it obvious that its a money-loser? If 75% of Friendster’s users are outside the U.S. then all the ads they have there (netflix, t-mobile) are useless! (Question: If you are in the Philippines, does Friendster sill serve you Netflix and T-Mobile ads? Or are they Philippine advertisers?)

Becoming a major Philippine website was obviously not the goal of Friendster when it started.

By: elmer

elmer — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 04:09:33 +0000

pusit.com, what an interesting name, i thought they’re into seafoods business?? my bad.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 03:49:26 +0000

AJ: I was speculating that it was gone because classifieds.friendster.com was down. This was last Friday when I saw the closed sign.

keekai: that was much of the topic of last nights’ Google Philippines presentation.

in any case, about Friendster… the reason why we started speculating is for the lack of official word from the companies involved.

By: keekai

keekai — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:08:40 +0000

Friendster PH CPM may look cheap but getting high SOV is a killer to advertisers… we (pinoys) are afterall a friendster crowd and geo-targeting ads to PH users is basically geo-targeting a large chunk of the community.

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:33:53 +0000

This part is completely incorrect – “Migs adds that Friendster has ceased running Friendster Classifieds”

Friendster Classifieds is still up and running and can be found at http://classifieds.friendster.com

By: Mike Abundo

Mike Abundo — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:43:06 +0000

Friendster focused too much on a geographic market niche. Today’s most profitable market niches are not geographic, but psychographic.

By: Dexter Zafra

Dexter Zafra — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:38:32 +0000

I read an article a while back about why friendsater is far behind Myspace. The author said is due to users geographical location. 50% of Friendster’s users are based in Asia were Myspace is US based users. How this affect Friendster in terms of revenue and finding Venture Capital? Well the author stated that more US based Companies will likely backup and advertise with Myspace.

By: SELaplana

SELaplana — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:33:57 +0000

nalugi na po yata kaya nagclose.

siya nga po pala…. down po ba ang server po ng ploghost.com? Pati po kasi yung site ko down din simula pa po yata kanina umaga.

By: issai

issai — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:24:58 +0000

but didn’t they patent themselves as the first networking service of its kind?? so bale, its not all failure… they’re barely breathing but ok pa naman siguro…

they lost to other networking sites…. and they can’t earn money just by ads with traffic from 3rd world countries…

By: ade

ade — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:27:15 +0000

Argh. That’s bad. Very bad.

By: Rickey

Rickey — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:15:05 +0000

The story of Friendster’s failure:

http://www.kottke.org/remainder/06/10/12011.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/business/yourmoney/15friend.html?ei=5090&en=3e9438ed349f7ce7&ex=1318564800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

By: jayvee f.

jayvee f. — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:19:57 +0000

i read somewhere (was it from duncan riley?) that social network monetization is very bad. CPM is something like 0.001 cents.