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About Friendster-

Friendster, the global online social gaming network, is focused on helping young people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are.It is a social gaming site that is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was previously known as a social networking service website. Before the site was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via their profile and their network. It was considered one of the original and even the “granddaddy” of social networks. The service became popular in Southeast Asia and is a major site in that region of the world.

 

After  when it relaunch as a social gaming platform  Friendster’s  registered users has reached over 115 million in June 2011.As of 2008, Friendster had more monthly unique visitors than any other social network in Asia. The company now operates mainly from three Asian countries those are Philippines,Singapore  and Malaysia , and over 90% of the site’s traffic comes from Asia. The top 10 countries accessing Friendster, according to Alexa, as of May 7, 2009 are the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore,Pakistan, Thailand,  United Arab Emirates, South Korea,Sudan,India and Bangladesh. Today, Friendster is still notably popular in Indonesia.

Services
There are many user suitable service of Friendster.One of them is its payment system.Friendster announced a global partnership with MOL AccessPortal Berhad (MOL), a leading payments by support a variety of payment methods including pre-paid cards, mobile payments, online payments and credit card payments.provider leveraging a network of over 600,000 physical and virtual payment channels worldwide, to power the Friendster Wallet and a payments platform enabling micro-spending for over 115 million registered users on Friendster in November 2009.Friendster also partners in with content partners such as game developers and publishers which provides monetization solutions on the Friendster platform leveraging on MOL’s payment channels and Friendster’s large userbase.Sub-brands of Friendster include “Friendster iCafe”, a cybercafe management system, and “Friendster Hotspots”, a free Wifi infrastructure for retailers.

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