{"id":102,"date":"2003-08-04T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2003-08-04T20:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2003-08-04T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2003-08-04T20:19:16","slug":"friendster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/04\/friendster\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I guess <a href=\"http:\/\/friendster.com\">Friendster<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/webguide\/internetlife\/2003-08-03-friendster_x.htm\">taking off<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a little disheartening to see people making money (well, they&#8217;re not making money yet) with a service you know you could have built in yourself 2 weeks&#8217; time.  I distinctly remember a site called Sixdegrees that was similar back in college.  After a while, it got boring and people stopped looking at it though.  Sixdegrees also had more sophisticated relationship classifications so you could define &#8220;mother&#8221; or &#8220;boyfriend&#8221; instead of everyone as a friend.  It will be interesting to see how this one plays out, but if you sign up feel free to invite me to be your friend so I can look incredibly popular (in cyberspace).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I guess Friendster is taking off. It&#8217;s a little disheartening to see people making money (well, they&#8217;re not making money yet) with a service you know you could have built in yourself 2 weeks&#8217; time. I distinctly remember a site called Sixdegrees that was similar back in college. After a while, it got boring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-1E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}