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The interesting thing about Friendster is that it was recently bought for around $100 million. Not Facebook returns, but not bad.

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Looks like less - $26M according to Crunchbase.[1] Far less than the capital it raised. Maybe you mean FriendFeed?

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/friendster

I seem to remember there were a number of news articles reporting the $100 million figure. I'm not privy to any inside information on this so I don't really know the answer. Tech Crunch is probably the most reliable for this kind of information.

A few of the $100 million articles:

http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/973571/Friendster-bought-1...

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091210/friendsters-caution...

http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/12/4/unk...

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200949/4892/Friends...

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