Facebook Friendfeed acquisition
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We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle... The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We've always been great admirers of Facebook, and our companies share a common vision. Now we have the opportunity to bring many of the innovations we've developed at FriendFeed to Facebook's 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook's passionate engineers to create even more ways for you to easily share with your friends online. What does this mean for my FriendFeed account?
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FriendFeed Acquisition Could Accelerate Facebook’s Open Platform Plans
This morning, Facebook acquired FriendFeed , a real-time aggregation and sharing service, in the company’s second acquisition ever (the first was Parakey ). The FriendFeed team will be moving to Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto soon. What does the deal mean for developers, marketers, and the future of the Facebook Platform?
Facebook has acquired FriendFeed , we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now. At this point details on the acquisition are still very sparse, but it’s clearly a good match. Over the last year or so, Facebook has “ borrowed ” quite a few features that FriendFeed popularized, including the ‘Like’ feature and an emphasis on real-time news updates.
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Updated)
Huge news in the world of social media today: Facebook has acquired online activity aggregator FriendFeed . According to the release, “all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.” To-date, FriendFeed has served as an inspiration for many Facebook features (to say the least), adding the ability for users to import activities from third party services like YouTube, Flickr, and Del.icio.us, plus features like commenting and “liking” items in user feeds. However, though much-hyped in early adopter circles, traffic at FriendFeed has remained more or less flat this year , while Facebook and Twitter have exploded in popularity . While Facebook indicates that FriendFeed’s storied team will be joining the world’s top social networking site, it’s unclear what exactly the future holds for the product.
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed for $50 Million
Earlier today, rumors started to appear that FriendFeed had been acquired by Facebook. We now have confirmation that this is indeed true. Neither Facebook nor FriendFeed released any exact details about the acquisition, but we'll keep this story updated as we learn more details about this acquisition. According to a post by Bret Taylor on the FriendFeed blog , FriendFeed will continue to operate normally for the time being while the two companies figure out the long-term plans. The Wall St.
Facebook Announces FriendFeed Acquisition
Facebook has announced this afternoon the acquisition of FriendFeed. For those unaware of the FriendFeed service, it enables users to publish stories just as Facebook does with feeds imported from around the web and open APIs for all information passing through the system. One interesting note about FriendFeed is the team’s remarkable ability to scale their application effectively without error. The team has also developed a fairly robust search tool. The 12 person team has been building some pretty impressive technologies and while growth has not been as large as Twitter, the company has done an amazing job at building a powerful product.