Comments on: Why Facebook Wants FriendFeed

By: Video: Facebook’s New CTO Bret Taylor on Platform, Privacy and Plans for the Future

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:01:50 +0000

[...] had co-founded Google Maps and his co-founder Paul Buchheit had created Gmail. After Facebook acquired FriendFeed last August, Taylor’s influence within his new company company has been swift; at [...]

By: We’re All Likers Now: How Facebook’s “Like” Is Just Awkward

Tue, 04 May 2010 23:05:42 +0000

[...] Facebook added the “like” button last year as a simple thumbs-up for items in its news feed, giving users an easy way to tell each other they appreciated their updates without going to the trouble of writing out words. The feature’s precedent was found in FriendFeed, the social web aggregation service Facebook later bought. [...]

By: Facebook Acquires Contact Importing Startup Octazen – GigaOM

Facebook Acquires Contact Importing Startup Octazen – GigaOM — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:00:57 +0000

[...] products (though it did discuss purchasing its rival Twitter). Previously it bought Parakey and FriendFeed, whose former execs now works on Facebook-originated products rather than their [...]

By: Google’s Acquhire Binge – GigaOM

Google’s Acquhire Binge – GigaOM — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:39:30 +0000

[...] Chai Labs and Howcast. Other acquirers have also taken a liking to Google offspring; for instance Facebook bought FriendFeed and Twitter bought Mixer [...]

By: The evolution of blogging « mick's leadership blog

The evolution of blogging « mick's leadership blog — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:21:46 +0000

[...] was FriendFeed becoming a Mark Zuckerberg Production thanks to a $50 million buyout by Facebook. The likelihood of Zuckerberg & Co. shutting down the upstart social aggregation service has [...]

By: The Evolution of Blogging [Om Malik] « an truong le

The Evolution of Blogging [Om Malik] « an truong le — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:21:02 +0000

By: Diigo Adds More Research and Collaboration Features

Diigo Adds More Research and Collaboration Features — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:31:59 +0000

[...] of features. Since then, the social bookmarking field has continued to mature; witness the recent purchase of Friendfeed by Facebook, and the numerous ways that bookmarks can be shared on social networks. Even MySpace is [...]

By: Google Launches Sidewiki. More Like Universal Commenting System

Google Launches Sidewiki. More Like Universal Commenting System — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:43:00 +0000

[...] if you think about it, this is part of a larger trend: when it comes to the information on the web, we all are facing a problem of plenty. As I have mentioned in the past, our current paradigm of looking for information via Google will [...]

By: Social Networks

Social Networks — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:55:33 +0000

[...] it was open sourcing Tornado, the web server framework that powers FriendFeed — essentially using FriendFeed’s technology to mimic Twitter. The release of the open-source web server framework is intended to enable [...]

By: Facebook’s Twitter EndRun: Coopetition

Facebook’s Twitter EndRun: Coopetition — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:28:49 +0000

[...] Twitter functionalities this spring. And just last week, the social network went one step further by acquiring FriendFeed last week, which essentially brought many Twitter-like capabilities [...]