Facebook is acquiring content-sharing service FriendFeed, the two companies have confirmed. The entire FriendFeed team of 12 will transition to Facebook, with the four founders taking on senior engineering roles. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. The FriendFeed-Facebook Friendship It’s interesting that Facebook has intentions to become an aggregator of the social web. It’s already testing the integration of Twitter feeds, and this acquisition confirms its intentions. The big question for me is how will FriendFeed’s loyal users react? Many of them–Robert Scoble included–flocked to FriendFeed’s apparent bipartisan approach to social networking. Will that disappear now that it’s part of Facebook? What are your thoughts on the deal? http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=116581 Thanks in Advance
Not a big fan of this move. I really wish FriendFeed stays as it is. Integrating it with Facebook doesn't appeal to me. I like FriendFeed the way it is right now.
it's a step towards building a real time search engine that could pose a threat to Google's dominance. Will Google acquire Twitter now? What are the consequences for SEO? I guess that producing good content will always be relevant, and partecipating in Facebook+FF and all social media will make a difference.
It will give Facebook the real time feature which brings more benefits to all users. It's a good news.
50m $, a big part in Facebook stock, but we don't know how much each of the 4 FriendFeed co-founders will get to work at Facebook.
Yeah, Its really great news to know that facebook work with friends feed. After all they both have same ambition. It will be huge. Thanks for info