Friendster in growth pains

Friendster continues to grow, accumulating members, criticism, spinoffs, and cultural mileage.

The application's rulers have begun to boot off prank identities, conceptual entities, and a whole wing of playful cybercultural identity. Naturally, being Web-based, there's a refuge for the expelled. (I miss Pure Evil)

BoingBoing alerts us to a graphing application. Visualization can't be far behind.