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Here's some fun history/background on Hi5-
Hi5 was bought by Tagged which was bought by The Meet Group (MeetMe).
I worked at Tagged when the acquisition happened, but was not in the team that made the technical changes necessary to migrate the product.
Tagged and Hi5 are now essentially the same site with barely-different skins - the current site is an evolution of Tagged. I believe the Hi5 codebase was scrapped, for the most part.
A few years later, The Meet Group bought Tagged (which had rebranded its company - not the products - as "if(we)" by that point).
This is tangential, but I feel compelled to share: I started my job at Tagged due to another acquisition, when Tagged bought Digsby (company: dotSyntax), a multi protocol instant messenger, social network, and email desktop app which me and some friends built from nothing. We were the first 3rd party client for Facebook messenger, and I believe MySpace IM as well :)
I doubt anyone cares about these properties anymore, but if anyone has questions I'm happy to answer what I can.