It’s the simplest way to communicate, ... There’s just so much info that needs to be communicated to dispatch.

It’s the simplest way to communicate, ... There’s just so much info that needs to be communicated to dispatch.

He is irrelevant to the discussion. He needs to stay out. He needs to stay in California.

We had to dispatch buses to the area, but everything is fine now.

In Friendster's wake, a throng of social networking sites blossomed in San Francisco attempting to duplicate its appeal. Each tackled the idea of connecting people in a slightly different way. One was Tickle, a service which, on observing Friendster’s broad-based appeal, altered its own service, which had previously been based on self-administered quizzes and tests. Two of the other new social sites—LinkedIn and Tribe.net—were founded by friends of Abrams.

By early 2004 Tickle had become the second-largest social network after Friendster, with two million members actively connected to others and exchanging messages.