In a continuing bid to make itself ever more relevant to advertisers and open its doors to the broader Internet, Facebook has acquired social media aggregator FriendFeed. Founded in 2007 by four former Google developers, the FriendFeed service allows users to build customized feeds based on information they find and activities they engage in on the Web and other social media sites, including YouTube and Twitter. Users’ friends can then see those feeds in real-time.
It will be interesting to see if Facebook can bring order to the chaos in a space that was trying to do that very thing. Tons of start-ups in that space. Maybe Facebook can cause a winner to emerge. To compete with FriendFeed, I've seen several good and not so good like: Bebo, Profilactic, nomee, SocialThing and istalkr. FriendFeed will certainly benefit from the Facebook userbase.
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Facebook Slurps Up FriendFeed
Posted by: Mike Pearson August 11, 2009 11:11 AMIn a continuing bid to make itself ever more relevant to advertisers and open its doors to the broader Internet, Facebook has acquired social media aggregator FriendFeed. Founded in 2007 by four former Google developers, the FriendFeed service allows users to build customized feeds based on information they find and activities they engage in on the Web and other social media sites, including YouTube and Twitter. Users’ friends can then see those feeds in real-time.