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MySpace not as sticky as I thought

From Yahoo News: Friendster logged 703,000 visitors to its site in April, a 15 percent drop from the year-ago month and the average visitor spent 14 minutes on the site that month, down 65 percent year over year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. By contrast, MyPlace...

Friendster layoffs, CEO out

Friendster news from Rafat Ali, Jeremy Zawodny Rob Hoff and VC Bill Burnham. CEO Scott Sassa is out. Replaced by Taek Kwon, evp-product and technology at Citysearch.com. Five people laid off (out of 55). More VC funding on the way. Yahoo! is looking to hire...

Google Maps + 4ppl Free Personals

Take a roomful of programmers, a beta Google web service and the concept of geo-targeting singles and you have 4ppl +GoogleMaps. The service works by merging 4ppl’s database of singles and overlaying it on top of Google’s super GoogleMaps service. Enter in...