While Friendster has sputtered out in the U.S. (it's a distant runner-up to social networking groups like Facebook and MySpace, controlled by U.S. billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Rupert Murdoch, respectively) it is doing well in Asia, where 90% of its daily site traffic originates.
It has previously been delivered by some of the most prominent names in broadcasting including Jeremy Paxman, Mark Thompson, and Rupert Murdoch and his son James.
Questioned over Smith, Hunt said his aide's contacts with James Murdoch and his representatives had "overstepped the mark, " which was why he had resigned.