Friendster

Friendster was an early social networking site. It's estimated that Friendster had over 115 million registered users. Founded in 2002, Friendster allowed the posting of blogs, photos, shoutouts/comments, and "widgets" of varying quality (not dissimilar to Facebook applications). It is considered one of the earlier social media networks (although it has numerous predecessors dating back for years) and distinguished itself by allowing such "rich media" additions to a user's account. After an initially high ranking and rating in the charts, Friendster's slow decline in hotness ensured an ever-growing chance of being deleted, and on April 25th, 2011, Friendster announced that most of the user-generated content on the site would be removed on May 31st, 2011. Literally terabytes of user-generated content was in danger of being wiped out, and Archive Team made it a priority to grab as much of Friendster as possible. A unix-based script (called BFF, or Best Friends Forever) was created and Archive Team asked for anyone with unix and 100gb of disk space to get involved in the project.
Jonathan Abrams, the original co-founder of Friendster, has wiped his hands of the whole situation, and is mostly frustrated with Friendster's past. 
Because Friendster was based on numeric IDs (as opposed to usernames), it was possible to assign "chunks" to Archive Team volunteers. The tools below were used to save Friendster.
There's a side project downloading a Friendster dataset.
= DNS change =
On Monday, June 27, Friendster switched DNS servers, pointing at their new site. However, the old site and data remain available on the old servers, if you know where to look.
NOTE: It is strongly recommended that you use a local caching DNS server, such as dnscache, dnsmasq, or bind. This reduces the DNS load on your internet connection, allows DNS lookups to resolve faster, and reduces load on the remote server.
== dnscache ==
If you're using the dnscache server from the djbdns package, you can do the following to forward your Friendster-related requests (assuming your dnscache configuration is in /etc/dnscache):
# echo 50.17.127.246 > /etc/dnscache/root/servers/friendster.com
# echo 50.17.127.246 > /etc/dnscache/root/servers/friendster.com.cdngc.net
# svc -t /etc/dnscache
Do a lookup of friendster.com. You should get 209.11.168.113.
== dnsmasq ==
You can tell dnsmasq to forward requests for the Friendster domains to a different server. dnsmasq will also cache results for a time. the default cache size is 150 names.
# Find your dnsmasq configuration.
# Add the following options:
#: server=/friendster.com/50.17.127.246
#: server=/friendster.com.cdngc.net/50.17.127.246
# Restart dnsmasq.
# do a lookup for friendster.com. you should get 209.11.168.113.
== bind ==
If you're using bind for your DNS needs, you can add the following to your options in order to forward your Friendster-related requests to a server that is still serving the old data:
 zone "friendster.com" {
 type forward;
 forwarders { 50.17.127.246; };
};
zone "friendster.com.cdngc.net" {
 type forward;
 forwarders { 50.17.127.246; };
};
Then reload/restart bind. Do a lookup of friendster.com and you should get 209.11.168.113.
== hacky simple way ==
NOTE: This is NOT recommended. It will forward ALL of your DNS lookups to this server, for EVERY request. (linux does not cache results on the local machine by default.)
Add "nameserver 50.17.127.246" to the top of your /etc/resolv.conf file. This will send all lookups to that server first. This server does so recursive requests as well, so you could use it directly if you wanted. (it would potentially slow down all name lookups, however). The better way is to do one of the above. (by default, linux does not cache dns results on the local machine. you may want to install dnscache, change the root/servers/@ file to list your ISP dns servers (or your own local server), and point resolv.conf at 127.0.0.1).
Be aware that with this hacky method, the change could be overwritten the next time your DHCP updates. (You might be able to add the line to a new file named "/etc/resolve.conf.head" to get around this. You might also be able to configure your DHCP client to ignore the servers it got from the DHCP, or place another server before or after it. Another option, in Linuxes that support it, is to "sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf")
Do a lookup of friendster.com. You should get 209.11.168.113.
= Tools =
== friendster-scrape-profile ==
Script to download a Friendster profile: download it, or clone the git repository.
You need a Friendster account to use this script. (Note: if you are creating an account, mailinator email addresses are blocked) Add your login details to a file username.txt and a password.txt and save those in the directory of the download script.
Run with a numeric profile id of a Friendster user: ./friendster-scrape-profile PROFILE_ID
Currently downloads:
* the main profile page (profiles.friendster.com/$PROFILE_ID)
* the user's profile image from that page
* the list of public albums (www.friendster.com/viewalbums.php?uid=$PROFILE_ID)
* each of the album pages (www.friendster.com/viewphotos.php?a=$id&uid=$PROFILE_ID)
* the original photos from each album
* the list of friends (www.friendster.com/fans.php?uid=$PROFILE_ID)
* the shoutoutstream (www.friendster.com/shoutoutstream.php?uid=$PROFILE_ID) and the associated comments
* the Friendster blog, if any
It does not download any of the widgets.
Downloading one profile takes between 6 and 10 seconds and generates 200-400 kB of data (for normal profiles).
== Automating the process ==
(This is all unix-only; it won't work in Windows.)
1. Create a Friendster account
2. Download the script; name it 'bff.sh'.
3. In the directory that you put the bff.sh, make a username.txt file that has your Friendster e-mail address as the text in it
4. In the directory that you put the bff.sh, make a password.txt file that has your Friendster password as the text in it.
5. Choose your profile range.
6. Edit that section to say what range you'll do.
7. On the command line, type (with your range replacing the '#'s.):
$ for i in {#..#}; do bash bff.sh $i; done
or even better
$ ./bff-thread.sh # #
which will allow you to stop at any time by touching the STOP file.
== Advanced: multiple instances ==
=== Requirements ===
Now you might notice it's relatively slow. My average is 115 profiles per hour. The bottleneck is mainly network requests, so running multiple instances can increase your download speed nearly linearly. BUT we're not sure whether it's safe to use the same cookies.txt file for all the instances (which it will do by default). Luckily you can easily avoid this using an extra optional parameter of bff.sh. Just add the name of the cookie file you want it to create and use right after the profile ID, for instance: "bff.sh 4012089 cookie3.txt". Use a different cookie file for each instance.
=== Manually ===
The full, modified command would then be (replacing the #'s with your range or the cookie number, where applicable):
 $ for i in {#..#}; do bash bff.sh $i cookie#.txt; done
=== chunky.sh ===
This is the latest and most sophisticated way to automate this is to run chunky.sh. It breaks the range up into chunks of a thousand profiles, and runs as many of these chunks concurrently as you request. This means that if some chunks contain smaller profiles and therefore download more quickly you don't end up with fewer concurrent downloads than you wanted.
 $ ./chunky.sh <start> <end> <threads>
==== Multiple Instances of chunky.sh ====
In order to always be downloading at maximum capacity, we're experimenting with an updated chunky.sh that is aware of all BFF download processes on the machine, not just its own. That means that you can start a new range of profiles and the new chunky.sh will patiently wait until it sees an open download slot to take. It hasn't seen a whole lot of testing yet, so use at your own risk and report any problems or possible improvements in #forerveralone. Syntax is the same as the original chunky.sh. View it here or download it here.
=== snook.sh ===
The original automated solution was snook.sh. This script takes the start and end of a range and a number of download threads to run and launches that many instances of bff.sh at once. It automatically logs the output to individual log files and creates separate cookies files for them. This script was originally written by underscore; you may have his link to pastebin on the irc channel. I've fixed several bugs, including one very serious one. If you used the version from pastebin, you'll need to start over because it downloaded the wrong profiles (keep what you downloaded, it'll merely overlap with someone else.) If you need to stop the downloads cleanly, simply $ touch STOP.
=== invoker.pl and summary.pl ===
Another option is this perl script which does a similar job. It's not thoroughly tested yet, but it's pretty simple. It takes the starting ID, the number of IDs per process, the number of processes, then creates a shell script which launches them. It has the bonus of being able to be stopped by using $ touch STOP, and it logs every finished ID from every instance to one file for monitoring. This script will give a quick summary of that file to monitor the processes' progress. (And with touch STOP and the summary file, that means easy management over SSH! Woo!)
== XML friend lists ==
Also on the wiki: a script that uses the Friendster API to download friends lists. This has the advantage that you can get the ids of all friends of a user as one XML file, which is a lot faster than the bff method. See getfriends.sh on Github.
== Troubleshooting ==
If you get an error like bff.sh: line 26: $'\r': command not found, you will need to convert the script to use UNIX-style line endings:
$ dos2unix bff.sh
or if you somehow find yourself without the dos2unix command, do this:
$ sed "s/\r//" bff.sh > bff-fixed.sh
$ mv bff-fixed.sh bff.sh
= Site Organization =
Content on Friendster seems to be primarily organized by the id number of the users, which were sequentially assigned starting at 1. This will make it fairly easy for wget to scrape the site and for us to break it up into convenient work units. The main components we need to scrape are the profile pages, photo albums and blogs, but there may be others. More research is needed
== Profiles ==
Urls of the form 'http://profiles.friendster.com/<userid>'. Many pictures on these pages are hosted on urls that look like 'http://photos-p.friendster.com/photos/<lk>/<ji>/nnnnnijkl/<imageid>.jpg', but these folders aren't browsable directly. Profiles will not be easy to scrape with wget.
== Photo Albums ==
A user's photo albums are at urls that look like 'http://www.friendster.com/viewalbums.php?uid=<userid>' with individual albums at 'http://www.friendster.com/viewphotos.php?a=<album id>&uid=<userid>'. It appears that the individual photo pages use javascript to load the images, so they will be very hard to scrape.
On the individual album pages, the photo thumbnails are stored under similar paths as the main images. 
i.e. if the album thumb is at http://photos-p.friendster.com/photos/<lk>/<ji>/nnnnnijkl/<imageid>m.jpg, just drop the final 'm' to get the main photo (or replace it with a 't' to get an even tinier version).
== Blogs ==
Blogs are hosted by a wordpress install, typically at (somename).blog.friendster.com for the actual blog pages, with images hosted on (somename).blogs.friendster.com, where that name is the same, and picked by the user.
== Groups ==
Friendster groups (only visible when logged in) have a profile picture, a list of members, photos, discussions (a forum) and announcements.
The group ids range from 1 to 3253050.
== Forums ==
There are general Friendster forums on http://www.friendster.com/forums/. It is not clear whether they will remain open or disappear as well. (Note: I downloaded them, Alard.)
= Range Signup Sheet =
We're going to break up the user ids into ranges and let individuals claim a range to download. Use this table to mark your territory:
Start 	End 	Status 	Size (Uncompressed) 	Claimant
1 	999 	Uploaded 	55MB 	closure
1,000 	1,999 	Uploaded 	283MB 	alard
2,000 	2,999 	Uploaded 	473MB 	DoubleJ
3,000 	3,999 	Downloaded 	234MB 	Teaspoon
4,000 	4,999 	Uploaded 	183MB 	Paradoks
5,000 	5,999 	Uploaded 	202MB 	robbiet48/Robbie Trencheny (Amsterdam)
6,000 	9,999 	Uploaded 	1.1gb 	Sketchcow/Jason Scott
10,000 	29,999 	Uploaded 	5.1gb 	Sketchcow/Jason Scott
30,000 	31,999 	Uploaded 	485mb 	Sketchcow/Jason Scott
32,000 	32,999 	Uploaded 	201MB 	Paradoks
33,000 	33,999 	Uploaded 	241mb 	closure
34,000 	100,000 	Uploaded 	unknown (20+ gb?) 	closure
100,000 	101,000 	Downloaded 	205.6 MB 	xlene
101,001 	102,000 	Uploaded 	232MB 	robbiet48/Robbie Trencheny (Florida)
102,001 	103,000 	Uploaded 	241MB 	robbiet48/Robbie Trencheny (Amsterdam)
103,001 	104,000 	Uploaded 	 	yipdw
104,001 	105,000 	Downloaded 	252MB 	Coderjoe
105,001 	114,999 	Uploaded 	2.1GB 	Paradoks
115,000 	116,999 	Uploaded 	 	yipdw
117,000 	119,999 	Downloaded 	815MB 	Coderjoe
120,000 	130,000 	Uploaded 	2.3GB 	robbiet48/Robbie Trencheny (Florida)
130,000 	140,000 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/friendster.130000-140000.tar 	 	robbiet48/Robbie Trencheny (Florida) (Reclaimed by Underscor 15:24, 19 June 2011 (UTC))
140,001 	160,000 	Uploaded 	 	yipdw
160,001 	180,000 	Downloaded 	2.4GB 	jch
180,001 	200,000 	Uploaded 	 	yipdw
200,001 	220,000 	Downloaded 	8.4GB 	Coderjoe
220,001 	230,000 	Uploaded 	 	xlene (Reclaimed by alard, 19 June 2011)
230,001 	240,000 	Uploaded 	4.4GB 	alard
240,001 	250,000 	Downloaded 	 	Teaspoon
250,001 	260,000 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/friendster.250001-260000.tar 	 	robbiet48/Robbie Trencheny (Newark) (Reclaimed by Underscor 21:35, 19 June 2011 (UTC))
260,001 	270,000 	Uploaded 	4.0GB 	robbiet48/Robbie Trencheny (Fremont 1)
270,001 	280,000 	Uploaded 	3.2GB 	robbiet48/Robbie Trencheny (Fremont 2)
280,001 	290,000 	Uploaded 	3.8GB 	DoubleJ
290,001 	300,000 	Uploaded 	3.9GB 	dnova
310,001 	320,000 	Downloaded 	5.1GB 	Coderjoe
320,001 	330,000 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/friendster.320001-330000.tar 	 	robbiet48/Robbie Trencheny (Oakland) (Reclaimed by Underscor 23:20, 19 June 2011 (UTC))
330,000 	340,000 	Uploaded 	 	closure
340,000 	400,000 	Uploaded 	25gb 	Sketchcow/Jason Scott
400,001 	500,000 	Uploaded 	40 GB 	DoubleJ
500,000 	600,000 	Downloaded 	37 GB 	closure (penguin)
600,001 	700,000 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/friendster.600001-700000.tar 	 	no2pencil (Reclaimed by Underscor 12:50, 20 June 2011 (UTC))
700,001 	800,000 	Uploaded 	36GB 	proub/Paul Roub
800,001 	900,000 	Uploaded 	39GB 	proub/Paul Roub
900,001 	1,000,000 	Uploaded (gv7@blindtiger) 	36GB 	Soult
1,000,001 	1,100,000 	Downloaded by DoubleJ 	32 GB 	Avram (reclaimed by DoubleJ 6/21 3PM EDT)
1,100,001 	1,200,000 	Uploaded 	33GB 	Paradoks
1,200,001 	1,300,000 	Uploaded 	36 GB 	db48x
1,300,000 	1,400,000 	Downloaded 	36 GB 	closure (penguin) (reclaimed by db48x, just in case)
1,400,001 	1,500,000 	Uploaded 	 	alard
1,500,001 	1,600,000 	Downloaded 	 	ksh/omglolbah
1,600,001 	1,700,000 	Downloaded 	 	ksh/omglolbah
1,700,001 	1,800,000 	Downloaded 	 	ksh/omglolbah
1,800,001 	1,900,000 	Downloaded 	 	ksh/omglolbah
1,900,001 	2,000,000 	Downloaded 	 	ksh/omglolbah
2,000,001 	2,100,000 	Downloaded 	 	ksh/omglolbah
2,100,001 	2,200,000 	Downloaded 	65 GB 	Teaspoon
2,200,001 	2,300,000 	Uploaded 	50gb compressed 	Darkstar
2,300,001 	2,400,000 	Uploaded 	70gb compressed 	Darkstar
2,400,001 	2,500,000 	Downloaded 	 	underscor (snookie)
2,500,001 	2,600,000 	Downloaded by underscor 	 	Bardicer (Reclaimed by Underscor 04:02, 22 June 2011 (UTC))
2,600,001 	2,700,000 	Downloaded by underscor 	 	Robbie Trencheny (Amsterdam) (Reclaimed by Underscor 18:44, 24 June 2011 (UTC))
2,700,001 	2,800,000 	Downloaded by underscor 	 	Robbie Trencheny (Fremont 2) (Reclaimed by Underscor 04:23, 26 June 2011 (UTC))
2,800,001 	2,900,000 	Downloaded 	139GB 	Coderjoe (system1)
2,900,001 	3,000,000 	Downloaded 	154GB 	Coderjoe (system2)
3,000,001 	3,100,000 	Uploaded 	78GB 	Qwerty0
3,100,001 	3,600,000 	Claimed 	 	Jason Scott/Sketchcow
3,600,001 	3,700,000 	Downloaded 	202 GB 	DoubleJ
3,700,001 	3,800,000 	Uploaded 	 	yipdw
3,800,001 	3,900,000 	Uploaded 	 	oli
3,900,001 	4,000,000 	Claimed 	 	Jason Scott/Sketchcow
3,985,001 	4,000,000 	Downloaded 	32GB 	Coderjoe (per Sketchcow's request)
4,000,001 	4,100,000 	Downloaded by DoubleJ 	 	primus102 (reclaimed by DoubleJ 6/22 3:15PM EDT)
4,100,001 	4,200,000 	Downloaded 	 	Zebranky
4,200,001 	4,300,000 	Claimed 	 	Zebranky (Reclaimed by Underscor 04:23, 26 June 2011 (UTC))
4,300,001 	4,399,999 	Uploaded 	255GB (196GB compressed) 	db48x
4,400,000 	4,599,999 	Downloaded 	364GB (480 uncompressed) 	Jade Falcon
4,600,000 	4,799,999 	Uploaded (gv7@blindtiger) 	 	Soult
4,800,000 	4,809,999 	Uploaded 	 	alard
4,810,000 	4,899,999 	Uploaded 	 	oli
4,900,000 	4,999,999 	Uploaded 	216GB (160GB compressed) 	db48x
5,000,000 	5,099,999 	Downloaded by underscor 	 	jch (Reclaimed by Underscor 04:23, 26 June 2011 (UTC))
5,100,000 	5,199,999 	Downloading (20%) 	 	hydruh
5,200,000 	5,299,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
5,300,000 	5,349,000 	Uploaded 	177~GB 	ersi
5,349,001 	5,359,000 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/data_5349001_5359000.tar.gz 	13GB 	Underscor 03:25, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
5,359,001 	5,360,000 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/data_5359000_5360000.tar.bz2 	 	Underscor 03:25, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
5,360,001 	5,370,000 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/data_5360001_5370000.tar 	11GB 	Underscor 03:25, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
5,370,001 	5,470,000 	Downloaded 	 	Underscor 03:25, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
5,470,001 	5,570,000 	Downloaded 	 	Underscor 03:25, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
5,570,001 	5,670,000 	Downloaded 	 	Underscor 03:25, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
5,670,001 	6,349,999 	Downloading 	 	jeremydouglass
6,350,000 	6,449,999 	Uploaded 	212~GB 	Paradoks
6,450,000 	6,550,000 	Uploaded 	 	yipdw
6,550,001 	6,700,000 	Uploaded 	 	oli
6,700,000 	6,800,000 	Claimed 	 	closure (penguin)
6,800,001 	6,900,000 	Uploaded 	 	alard
6,900,001 	7,000,000 	Uploaded 	 	oli
7,000,001 	7,100,000 	Uploaded 	 	seanp2k (likwid/@ip2k on twitter)
7,100,001 	7,150,000 	Downloaded 	 	oli
7,150,001 	7,250,001 	Downloaded 	204 GB (160G compressed) 	dashcloud
7,250,002 	7,299,999 	Downloaded 	 	db48x
7,300,000 	7,399,999 	Uploaded 	171 GB 	DoubleJ
7,400,000 	7,499,999 	Downloaded 	138GB compressed 	dsquared
7,500,000 	7,599,999 	Uploaded 	 	oli
7,600,000 	7,699,999 	Uploaded 	 	oli
7,700,000 	7,799,999 	Downloaded 	 	seanp2k (likwid/@ip2k on twitter)
7,800,000 	7,899,999 	Uploaded 	 	seanp2k (likwid/@ip2k on twitter)
7,900,000 	7,999,999 	Compressing 	 	seanp2k (likwid/@ip2k on twitter)
8,000,000 	8,099,999 	Downloaded by underscor 	 	primus102 (Reclaimed by Underscor 04:23, 26 June 2011 (UTC))
8,100,000 	8,199,999 	Uploaded 	 	alard
8,200,000 	8,299,999 	Downloaded 	190GB / 145GB tar.gz 	jeremydouglass
8,300,000 	8,399,999 	Downloaded 	192GB 	Beardicus
8,400,000 	8,449,999 	Compressed 	100GB 	Shadyman (Yes, 50k IDs)
8,450,000 	8,599,999 	Uploading 	 	aristotle
8,600,000 	8,699,999 	Uploaded 	131GB 	chris_k
8,700,000 	8,715,999 	Uploaded 	 	alard (redownloading vertevero's range)
8,716,000 	8,999,999 	Uploaded (possible errors, email aggroskater AT gmail DOT com if reup needed) 	 	aggroskater
9,000,000 	9,035,999 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/friendster.9000000-9035999.tar 	 	chris_k (Reclaimed by Underscor 04:23, 26 June 2011 (UTC))
9,036,000 	9,099,999 	Downloaded 	95 GB 	db48x
9,100,000 	9,199,999 	Downloaded 	139 GB 	DoubleJ
9,200,000 	9,299,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
9,300,000 	9,399,999 	Downloaded 	 	db48x
9,400,000 	9,499,999 	Downloaded 	161 GB 	db48x
9,500,000 	9,529,999 	Uploaded 	 	alard
9,530,000 	9,599,999 	Downloaded 	115G 	Coderjoe (realigning)
9,600,000 	9,699,999 	Uploaded 	 	aristotle
9,700,000 	9,799,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
9,800,000 	9,899,999 	Uploaded 	144G 	aristotle
9,900,000 	9,999,999 	Uploaded 	149G 	aristotle
10,000,000 	10,050,000 	Uploaded 	 	yipdw (50k intentional)
10,050,001 	10,100,000 	Uploaded 	96G 	dinomite
10,100,001 	10,199,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
10,200,000 	10,300,000 	Downloaded 	204GB 	Coderjoe (yes, 100k1)
10,300,001 	10,399,999 	Uploaded 	179 G (141 G compressed) 	dashcloud
10,400,001 	10,499,999 	Claimed 	 	Lambda_Driver
10,500,000 	10,599,999 	Uploaded 	199G (155G compressed) 	dinomite
10,600,000 	10,699,999 	Uploaded 	 	dinomite
10,700,000 	10,799,999 	Downloaded 	196 GB 	DoubleJ
10,800,000 	10,849,999 	Downloaded 	 	Shadyman
10,850,000 	10,899,999 	Downloaded 	 	Underscor 18:56, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
10,900,000 	10,999,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
11,000,000 	11,049,999 	Uploaded 	 	alard
11,050,000 	11,199,999 	Downloading 	 	Cameron_D
11,200,000 	11,249,999 	Downloading 	 	Underscor 01:05, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
11,250,000 	11,399,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
11,400,000 	11,449,999 	Uploaded 	 	yipdw
11,450,000 	11,499,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
11,500,000 	11,599,999 	Uploaded 	 	alard
11,600,000 	11,699,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
11,700,000 	11,714,999 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/friendster.11700000-11714999.tar	 	Underscor 22:12, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
11,715,000 	11,799,999 	Downloaded 	161GB 	Coderjoe (Realigning)
11,800,000 	11,899,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
11,900,000 	11,999,999 	Downloaded 	 	Beardicus
12,000,000 	12,099,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
12,100,000 	12,199,999 	Downloaded by dsquared 	 	dsquared
12,200,000 	12,849,999 	Downloaded 	~270GB Uncompressed 	Wyatt
12,850,000 	12,899,999 	Claimed 	 	Perfinion
12,900,000 	12,949,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
12,950,000 	12,999,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
13,000,000 	13,099,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
13,100,000 	13,199,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
13,200,000 	13,299,999 	Uploaded 	195G Uncompressed, 124G .gz	chris_k
13,300,000 	13,399,999 	Downloading 	 	Underscor 00:39, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
13,400,000 	13,499,999 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/friendster.13400000-13499999.tar	159G Uncompressed 	chris_k (Accidentally double-done by underscor... oops)
13,500,000 	13,599,999 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/friendster.13500000-13599999.tar	 	Underscor 19:18, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
13,600,000 	13,699,999 	Downloaded 	173GB 	Coderjoe (sys-g)
13,700,000 	13,799,999 	Downloaded 	190GB 	Coderjoe (sys-r)
13,800,000 	13,899,999 	Downloaded 	152GB 	db48x
13,900,000 	13,999,999 	Downloading 	 	Beardicus
14,000,000 	14,099,999 	Downloaded 	170GB 	Coderjoe (sys-g)
14,100,000 	14,199,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
14,200,000 	14,299,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
14,300,000 	14,399,999 	Uploaded 	~150GB (108GB compessed) 	Perfinion
14,400,000 	14,499,999 	Downloaded 	169GB 	Coderjoe (sys-g)
14,500,000 	14,599,999 	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
14,600,000 	14,699,999 	Uploaded http://ia700601.us.archive.org/5/incoming/gv/friendster.14600000-14699999.tar	 	Underscor 16:05, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
14,700,000 	14,799,999 	Uploaded 	59G tar.gz 	chris_k
14,800,000 	14,899,999 	Downloaded 	 	chris_k
14,900,000 	14,999,999 	Downloaded 	50 GB 	DoubleJ
15,000,000 	15,099,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
15,100,000 	15,199,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
15,200,000 	15,299,999 	Downloading 	 	chris_k
15,300,000 	15,399,999 	Claimed 	 	db48x
15,400,000 	19,899,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
19,900,000 	19,999,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
20,000,000 	20,099,999 	Uploaded 	 	dinomite
20,100,000 	20,199,999 	Downloaded 	 	Beardicus
20,200,000 	24,999,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
25,000,000 	25,099,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
25,100,000 	29,899,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
29,900,000 	29,999,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
30,000,000 	30,099,999 	Downloaded 	 	dsquared
30,100,000 	30,199,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
30,200,000 	34,999,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
35,000,000 	35,099,999 	Downloaded 	45 GB 	DoubleJ
35,100,000 	39,899,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
39,900,000 	39,999,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
40,000,000 	40,099,999 	Downloaded 	159 GB 	db48x
40,100,000 	40,199,999 	Downloaded 	153 GB 	dashcloud
40,200,000 	49,899,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
49,900,000 	49,999,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
50,000,000 	50,099,999 	Downloaded 	135GB 	jeremydouglass
50,100,000 	50,199,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
50,200,000 	59,899,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
59,900,000 	59,999,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
60,000,000 	60,099,999 	Uploaded 	131GB, 91G .gz 	chris_k
60,100,000 	60,199,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
60,200,000 	60,299,999 	Downloaded 	 	seanp2k (likwid/@ip2k on twitter)
60,300,000 	60,399,999 	Downloading 	 	seanp2k (likwid/@ip2k on twitter)
60,400,000 	64,999,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
65,000,000 	65,099,999 	Downloaded 	103 GB 	DoubleJ
65,100,000 	69,899,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
69,900,000 	69,999,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
70,000,000 	70,099,999 	Downloaded 	97GB 	jeremydouglass
70,100,000 	70,199,999 	Downloaded 	 	DoubleJ
70,200,000 	79,999,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
80,000,000 	80,099,999 	Uploaded 	94GB 	chris_k
80,100,000 	80,199,999 	Downloaded 	90 GB 	DoubleJ
80,200,000 	89,999,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
90,000,000 	90,099,999 	Uploaded 	90GB, 51G .gz 	chris_k
90,100,000 	94,999,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
95,000,000 	95,099,999 	Downloaded 	76G 	zebedee
95,100,000 	99,899,999 	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
99,900,000 	100,000,000	Uploaded 	 	aristotle
100,000,000	100,099,999	Uploaded 	 	dinomite
100,100,000	109,999,999	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
110,000,000	110,099,999	Uploaded 	72GB est. 	Paradoks
110,100,000	119,999,999	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
120,000,000	120,099,999	Uploaded 	 	chris_k
120,100,000	122,000,000	Downloaded 	 	oli
122,000,001	124,099,999	Unclaimed 	 	Available pool
124,100,000	124,138,261	Downloaded 	9GB 	jeremydouglass
Special Collection 	Status 	Size (Uncompressed)	Claimant
320 fan profiles (from search)	Uploaded	 	alard
We recommend claiming 100k at a time, because that keeps things neat and tidy, both in this table and on your computer. However, it seems that the number of photographs per profile increased quite a bit during the early years, so the later profiles are much larger than the older ones. Feel free to claim a smaller block if it'll help. 100GB should hold about 50,000 ids and only take a couple of days to download.
== Proposal: sampling ==
It is growing increasingly likely that we won't get it all by the 31st. Given that, perhaps we should be sampling new ranges from across the total index, in order to capture a better picture of what Friendster was like across its history.
Here are eleven proposed ranges to start, ranked by priority:
Start 	End 	Priority
20,000,000 	20,099,999 	5
30,000,000 	30,099,999 	9
40,000,000 	40,099,999 	3
50,000,000 	50,099,999 	6
60,000,000 	60,099,999 	10
70,000,000 	70,099,999 	2
80,000,000 	80,099,999 	7
90,000,000 	90,099,999 	11
100,000,000	100,099,999	4
110,000,000	110,099,999	8
124,100,000	124,138,261	1
...and here they are sorted by priority. If you want to do one of these ranges, you would still add an entry for it in the main table above.
Start 	End 	Priority	
124,100,000	124,138,261	1 	claimed
70,000,000 	70,099,999 	2 	claimed
40,000,000 	40,099,999 	3 	claimed
100,000,000	100,099,999	4 	claimed
20,000,000 	20,099,999 	5 	claimed
50,000,000 	50,099,999 	6 	claimed
80,000,000 	80,099,999 	7 	claimed
110,000,000	110,099,999	8 	claimed
30,000,000 	30,099,999 	9 	claimed
60,000,000 	60,099,999 	10 	claimed
90,000,000 	90,099,999 	11 	claimed
== Proposal: download some groups ==
It might be interesting to download at least part of the Friendster groups. The bigger groups often have forums, photos and announcements. This table lists the number of groups with 100 members or more. If you are interested, claim a category.
The lists of group ids can be found in this special Github repository. To download a group, you'll need the bgf.sh script, which can be found in the same git repository as bff.sh (you may already have it!).
Note: it seems that Friendster's group browser is now broken, which means that it can't be used to find more large groups from the larger categories. The incomplete id lists for these categories are in the Github repository.
Check for an update to bgf.sh!
CatID	Category 	ID list file 	Groups	Status / Uncompressed size 	Claimed by
11 	Activities 	ids-100plus-cat-11-PARTIAL.txt	675 	Downloaded, uploaded 	alard
12 	Automotive 	ids-100plus-cat-12.txt 	983 	Downloaded, 417M .bz2 	Cameron_D
13 	Business 	ids-100plus-cat-13.txt 	289 	Downloaded 302M, uploaded 	chris_k
14 	Career & Jobs 	ids-100plus-cat-14.txt 	457 	Downloaded, 463M, uploaded 	chris_k
15 	Cities & Neighborhoods 	ids-100plus-cat-15.txt 	586 	Downloaded, 199M .bz2 	Cameron_D
16 	Companies 	ids-100plus-cat-16.txt 	627 	Downloaded, 426M, uploaded 	chris_k
17 	Computers & Internet 	ids-100plus-cat-17.txt 	661 	Downloaded, uploaded 	alard
18 	Countries & Regional 	ids-100plus-cat-18.txt 	645 	Downloaded, 2.4GB, uploaded	chris_k
19 	Cultures & Community 	ids-100plus-cat-19.txt 	1425 	Downloaded, 2.1GB, uploaded	chris_k
20 	Entertainment 	ids-100plus-cat-20.txt 	2718 	Downloaded, uploaded 	alard
21 	Family & Home 	ids-100plus-cat-21.txt 	554 	Downloaded, 214M .bz2 	Cameron_D
22 	Fan Clubs 	ids-100plus-cat-22-PARTIAL.txt	4758 	Downloaded, 3.2GB, uploaded	chris_k
23 	Fashion & Beauty 	ids-100plus-cat-23.txt 	1725 	Downloaded, 6.6GB, uploaded	Paradoks
24 	Film & Television 	ids-100plus-cat-24.txt 	954 	Downloaded, uploaded 	alard
25 	Food, Drink, & Wine 	ids-100plus-cat-25.txt 	634 	Downloaded, 3GB, uploaded 	Paradoks
26 	Games 	ids-100plus-cat-26-PARTIAL.txt	1583 	Downloaded, 3.9GB, uploaded	chris_k
27 	Gay, Lesbian & Bi 	ids-100plus-cat-27.txt 	850 	Uploaded 	vertevero/claimed by chris_k as a backup
28 	Government & Politics 	ids-100plus-cat-28.txt 	279 	Downloaded, uploaded 	alard
29 	Health & Fitness 	ids-100plus-cat-29.txt 	281 	Downloaded, 49M .bz2 	Cameron_D
30 	Hobbies & Crafts 	ids-100plus-cat-30.txt 	753 	Downloaded, uploaded 	alard
31 	Literature & Arts 	ids-100plus-cat-31.txt 	422 	Downloaded, 189M .bz2 	Cameron_D
32 	Money & Investing 	ids-100plus-cat-32.txt 	102 	Downloaded, 869MB, uploaded	Paradoks
33 	Movies 	ids-100plus-cat-33.txt 	1265 	Downloaded, uploaded 	alard
34 	Music 	ids-100plus-cat-34-PARTIAL.txt	2027 	Downloaded, 2.4G, uploaded 	chris_k
35 	Nightlife & Clubs 	ids-100plus-cat-35.txt 	856 	Downloaded, 256M .bz2 	Cameron_D
36 	Non-Profit & Philanthropic	ids-100plus-cat-36.txt 	126 	Downloaded, 325MB, uploaded	Paradoks
37 	People 	ids-100plus-cat-37-PARTIAL.txt	1249 	Downloaded, 2.7G, uploaded 	chris_k
38 	Pets & Animals 	ids-100plus-cat-38.txt 	449 	Downloaded, 342M, uploaded 	chris_k
39 	Professional Organizations	ids-100plus-cat-39.txt 	1200 	Downloaded, uploaded 	alard
40 	Recreation & Sports 	ids-100plus-cat-40.txt 	1130 	Downloaded, 1.6G, uploaded 	chris_k
41 	Religion & Beliefs 	ids-100plus-cat-41.txt 	1281 	Downloaded, 2.1G, uploaded 	chris_k
42 	Romance & Relationships 	ids-100plus-cat-42.txt 	1020 	Downloaded, 932M, uploaded 	chris_k
43 	Schools & Alumni 	ids-100plus-cat-43-PARTIAL.txt	1020 	Downloaded, 2.2G, uploaded 	chris_k
44 	Science & History 	ids-100plus-cat-44.txt 	181 	Downloaded, 341MB, uploaded	Paradoks
45 	Sorority/Fraternities 	ids-100plus-cat-45.txt 	491 	Downloaded, 426MB, uploaded	chris_k
46 	Television 	ids-100plus-cat-46.txt 	908 	Downloaded, uploaded 	alard
47 	Travel 	ids-100plus-cat-47.txt 	241 	Downloaded, 113M .bz2 	Cameron_D
48 	Other 	ids-100plus-cat-48-PARTIAL.txt	1356 	Downloaded, 1.5g, Uploaded 	chris_k
49 	Events 	ids-100plus-cat-49.txt 	330 	Downloaded, 969MB, uploaded	Paradoks
= Known issues =
Affected 	Issue 	Resolution
User IDs < 340000 	Suspect blog content 	Jason will run a blog-check at the end
Profiles retrieved with bff.sh < v8 	Missing blog content 	Redownload affected profiles or wait for blog-check
Profiles retrieved with bff.sh < v9 	Missing images 	Redownload affected profiles
Profiles with more than one shoutout page, retrieved with bff.sh < v12	Only first page of shoutoutstream	Redownload profiles that have a file shoutout_2.html
Groups retrieved with bgf.sh < v4 	Missing bulletins 	Run fix-bgf-bulletins.sh to redownload
== Running on Mac OS X ==
Summary: To run on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard), or 10.6 Server, you need to install wget, bash 4.0+, and a more recent expr.
Description: In MacPorts, this can be done through installing packages wget, bash, and coreutils (for gexpr), then changing the top lines in all .sh files from the ArchiveTeam-friendster-scrape git package to !#/opt/local/bin/bash, and replacing all instances of 'expr' with 'gexpr'. Then run chunky.sh as normal on a range and declare victory.
Problem Details: All this is done to work around these three problems:
# bff.sh requires wget
#* ...which is not installed by default
# bff.sh requires a more recent version of expr
#* https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/friendster-scrape/issues/2
# chunky.sh requires a more recent version of bash (4.0+)
#* ...to support the shell builtin "declare -A" (associative arrays)
Solution Details:
# Install MacPorts (requires Developer Tools). You may also use Homebrew or Fink.
# Install new versions of wget, expr, and bash. In MacPorts
#* sudo port install wget
#* sudo port install coreutils
#* sudo port install bash
# In MacPorts, the new bash is installed at 
#* /opt/local/bin/bash
#* ...so change the first line of each .sh file from:
#* !#/bin/bash ...to:
#* !#/opt/local/bin/bash
# In MacPorts, the new expr is called "gexpr", so search and replace every expr-->gexpr
#* (lines 167 and 231 in bff.sh, in the current scripts)
More:
* Homebrew users can use commands like:
** brew install bash
* ...or Xcode users can build bash 4+ from source:
** https://concisionandconcinnity.blogspot.com/2009/03/upgrade-bash-to-40-in-mac-os-x.html
== More on the missing image problem ==
We've just discovered the versions of bff.sh that we've been using don't grab the right things on some systems. Specifically, we know that older versions of grep (i.e. 2.5.4) don't match some urls as intended. To test whether your files have been downloading correctly, run ./bff.sh 115288. If you end up with one .jpg instead of 8 (here is what you should end up with), you need to upgrade your version of bff.sh before continuing. The current version solves the issue. We're figuring out what to do about the already-downloaded stuff.
== More on the shoutout page problem ==
There was an error in the section downloading the shoutoutstream pages, (bff.sh versions < 12). For profiles with more than one shoutoutstream page, the first page was downloaded several times. shoutout_1.html, shoutout_2.html etc. all contained the first page of messages. This problem was fixed in the version 12 of the script.
This only affects profiles with more than one shoutout page. This is a small percentage of the profiles (7 out of the 50,000 profiles in my collection). They can be found by looking for shoutout_2.html. Remove the profiles that have this file and run the script again.
== Blogs with bad links ==
Some blogs have bad links that expand into an infinite tree. The latest version of bff.sh ameliorates this problem by limiting recursion depth to 20, but in some cases that can still be too much.
These profile IDs are known to have blogs that cause problems:
ID 	Example of offending URL
319,533 	exquisitelle.blog.friendster.com/category/uncategorized/<object width=/<object width=/...
488,742 	oxidation-hani.blog.friendster.com/category/uncategorized/page/category/uncategorized/page/...
2,969,345 	mercurian.blog.friendster.com/category/life-or-something-like-it/<center> <a href=/...
3,007,822 	iz-freedom.blog.friendster.com/category/uncategorized/;/;/...
3,035,078 	khelay-angela.blog.friendster.com/category/music/<div style=/<div style=/<div style=/...
3,764,079 	luzie53.blog.friendster.com/&tbnh=106&tbnw=142&hl=tl&start=4&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsad%2Bangel%2Bpictures%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Dtl%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN/...
3,774,275 	msiabeckham.blog.friendster.com/category/uncategorized/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/page/2/\/page/2...
3,789,069 	chrisna.blog.friendster.com/&tbnh=110&tbnw=80&hl=en&start=20&prev=/images?q=friendship&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/images?q=friendship&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/...
5,686,980 	output file names look like: 5/6/8/5686980/blog/myztikal-princessa.blog.friendster.com/category/current-affairs/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=
5,716,605 	
5,726,907 	output file names look like: data/5/7/2/5726907/blog/zacharyderwoods.blog.friendster.com/category/uncategorized/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/&tbnh=87&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=Bangkok&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=G/index.html.orig
6,501,473 	irisruby.blog.friendster.com/category/music/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<a href=/<object classid=/...
6,803,753 	pauloge10.blog.friendster.com/category/uncategorized/object_width=%2F%3Ca+href%3D%2F%3Cobject+width%3D%2F%3Ca+href%3D%2F%3Cobject+width%3D%2F%3Ca+href%3D%2F%3Ca+href%3D%2F%3Ca+href%3D%2F%3Ca+href%3D%2F%3Ca+href%3D%2F%3Ca+href%3D%2F/page/2/
7,124,822 	julius-kurimaw.blog.friendster.com/&tbnh=110&tbnw=111&hl=en&start=25&prev=/images?q=+x-japan+&start=20&hl=en&lr=&sa=N/&tbnh=97&tbnw=97&hl=en&start=6&prev=/images?q=first+love+lyrics+by+utada+hikaru&hl=en&lr=&sa=N...
9,537,003 	andesmelba.blog.friendster.com/&/page/3/simenon.htm/&/&/page/3/alesol.htm/&/&/page/2/
13,783,346	simplifiamina.blog.friendster.com/&tbnh=71&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=sasuke+and+sakura&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N/itachi.htm/itachi.htm/&tbnh=71&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=sasuke+and+sakura&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N/&tbnh=71&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=sasuke+and+sakura&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N/&tbnh=71&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=sasuke+and+sakura&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N/&tbnh=71&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=sasuke+and+sakura&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N/&tbnh=71&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=sasuke+and+sakura&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N/itachi.htm/&tbnh=71&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=sasuke+and+sakura&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N/&tbnh=71&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=sasuke+and+sakura&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N/itachi.htm/itachi.htm/itachi.htm/&tbnh=71&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images?q=sasuke+and+sakura&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N/itachi.htm.html
14,068,868	evelyn01.blog.friendster.com/category/uncategorized/&tbnh=88&tbnw=91&hl=tl&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhello%2Bkitty%26hl%3Dtl%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN/index.cfm/index.cfm/index.cfm/index.cfm/&tbnh=88&tbnw=91&hl=tl&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhello%2Bkitty%26hl%3Dtl%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN/index.cfm/index.cfm/&tbnh=88&tbnw=91&hl=tl&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhello%2Bkitty%26hl%3Dtl%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN/&tbnh=88&tbnw=91&hl=tl&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhello%2Bkitty%26hl%3Dtl%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN/
14,482,038	cyfa.blog.friendster.com/category/film/&tbnh=91&tbnw=138&hl=id&start=25&prev=/images?q=Harry+Potter+and+The+Goblet+of+Fire&start=20&svnum=10&hl=id&lr=&sa=N/&tbnh=120&tbnw=150&hl=id&start=52&prev=/images?q=Harry+Potter+and+The+Goblet+of+Fire&start=40&svnum=10&hl=id&lr=&sa=N/&tbnh=120&tbnw=150&hl=id&start=52&prev=/images?q=Harry+Potter+and+The+Goblet+of+Fire&start=40&svnum=10&hl=id&lr=&sa=N/&tbnh=120&tbnw=150&hl=id&start=52&prev=/images?q=Harry+Potter+and+The+Goblet+of+Fire&start=40&svnum=10&hl=id&lr=&sa=N/&tbnh=120&tbnw=150&hl=id&start=52&prev=/images?q=Harry+Potter+and+The+Goblet+of+Fire&start=40&svnum=10&hl=id&lr=&sa=N/&tbnh=120&tbnw=150&hl=id&start=52&prev=/images?q=Harry+Potter+and+The+Goblet+of+Fire&start=40&svnum=10&hl=id&lr=&sa=N/&tbnh=91&tbnw=138&hl=id&start=25&prev=/images?q=Harry+Potter+and+The+Goblet+of+Fire&start=20&svnum=10&hl=id&lr=&sa=N/&tbnh=89&tbnw=135&hl=id&start=27&prev=/images?q=Harry+Potter+and+The+Goblet+of+Fire&start=20&svnum=10&hl=id&lr=&sa=N.html
If you come across one of these, please add to this list.
== Blogs with corrupt images ==
Some blogs have links to images that just never finish downloading. wget downloads to 99%, then hangs until the server closes the connection.
ID 	Example of offending URL
1421002	http://diverjun23.blog.friendster.com/files/sany0901.jpg
2848374	http://aspen.blogs.friendster.com/photos/uncategorized/test.gif
7934375	http://photos-p.friendster.com/photos/76/94/7934967/1_256336337.jpg
If you come across another corrupt image, please add it to the list.
= CEO's "Friendster re-launching" message =
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 06:28:28 -0700 (PDT)
Dear fellow Friendster members,
As many of you may know, Friendster announced that it is re-launching itself as
a social gaming portal and launched a beta version of the new Friendster a
couple of weeks ago. The beta version was well received. I am pleased to
announce that the new Friendster is going live thereby enabling all our users to
login to the new Friendster using your existing Friendster username and
password.
Friendster has touched the lives of many. Since MOL, the company I founded
acquired Friendster in early last year; many people have come up to me to tell
me how Friendster has changed their lives. Many have told me that they have
found their life partners over Friendster. Just last week, a successful Internet
entrepreneur in Singapore told me that her success was triggered by promoting
her business on Friendster. Friendster pioneered social networking and ignited
the social media industry that has created billion dollar companies such as
Facebook and Twitter, companies that may not have existed in their present form
if not for Friendster's early innovation.
Today, Friendster is in a unique position to take advantage on the growth of
social gaming. Through its relationship with MOL, which has a 10 year history in
working with gaming companies, Friendster has both the experience and track
record to make innovations in this space.
Today, as Friendster reinvents itself as a social gaming destination that
enables its users to create multiple avatars, play games and enjoy rewards; I
hope that all of you will wish us luck and continue to support us in our new
reincarnation. The new Friendster is not perfect and we will continue to add new
games and features such as localization and rewards over the next few months.
Our team is working hard on adding these features and welcomes your suggestions
and comments on how we can better serve your needs as a social gaming and
entertainment destination.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support and
hope that all of you will enjoy the new Friendster as Friendster continues to
innovate to serve and entertain you better.
Yours truly,
Ganesh Kumar Bangah
Chief Executive Officer
ceo@friendster.com
==New Friendster answer about old data==
In the New Friendster's help pages, there is a question about data from the old Friendster. Here is the question and answer:
;4.9. Where did the photos, blogs, comments, testimonials and all the other content in my old Friendster profile go?
:As part of the reformat of the site, we had to remove some of the content of your profile including the photo albums, blogs and most parts of the profile like the "more about " info, comments and the testimonials.