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- Facebook Buys Sharing Service FriendFeed
- Facebook has purchased sharing service Friendfeed. Financial terms of the deal were not released. Full release after the jump.More to come.PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 10, 2009 — Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement,...
- External links 2009-08-10
- Google Social Search Doesn't Include Facebook?
- Social Search, at least at first, will be able to include results from Twitter, FriendFeed, Picasa, Blogger, and Google Reader. The last three are obvious since Google owns all of those. Twitter seems obvious too because of the new Google/Twitter search deal. FriendFeed is an...
- News items 2009-10-26
- GamerDNA Is Like FriendFeed Meets Pandora for Gamers
- Real-time updates are becoming common currency on the web. And as the amount of new content created daily continues to climb, recommendation engines that help us sort through the dreck are becoming more and more popular. Gamer social network gamerDNA just launched a major site...
- News items 2009-09-02
- HOW TO: Update Facebook From Outside Facebook
- Life moves pretty fast. Sometimes it moves so fast we just don't have time to stop and maintain all of our social networks individually. But that's no reason to leave your Facebook profile barren, because you don't even have to make it all the way to Facebook to update your...
- News items 2009-08-12
- Why Streamy Could be the Next FriendFeed
- In wake of the news of the FriendFeed acquisition by Facebook, we're faced with the real possibility that FriendFeed.com will be shut down for good. According to the press release, "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being..." In other words, it's only a matter of time before...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Google Caffeine: A Detailed Test of the New Google
- Did you hear? Google's launching a new, upgraded version of its search engine soon. And just as important, the search giant released the developer's preview of it today. Google promises that the new search tool (codename "Caffeine") will improve the speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness of Google search. While...
- News items 2009-08-11
- The New Search War: Google vs Facebook
- It's no coincidence that Facebook launched a new real-time search engine on the same day that it bought FriendFeed and Google announced a new infrastructure project aimed at speeding up its indexing time. Make no mistake about it: people that know search believe that there's gold in real-time and social...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Watch Out Twitter! Facebook Launches Realtime Search
- Facebook's on a roll today. Earlier today, Facebook acquired FriendFeed, one of the largest and most-discussed social media acquisitions we've seen in a long time. The deal is partly seen as a move by the world's largest social network to boost their social technology, specifically realtime streams, conversations, social media...
- News items 2009-08-10
- As Facebook Makes Moves, Twitter Faces the Music
- In terms of social media headlines, yesterday was one of those days when people deep into the industry got all, well, a-twitter, and the rest of the media world was probably left wondering what all of the excitement was about. But make no mistake, yesterday was a BIG day, perhaps...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Facebook + Friendfeed: Acquisition Of The Wrong Kind
- Facebook acquired Friendfeed today, lighting up the Twittersphere, where reactions ranged from giddiness to despair at the presumed loss of a favored service. The reasons for the acquisition are muddled (and short-sighted at best), making it a foolhardy acquisition for Facebook, destined to join Skype eBay, Blo.gs Yahoo and Friend...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- New Friendfeed Ignites the Too-Much-Information Age
- Largely because of Robert Scoble (aka @scobleizer), there's a lot of chatter today about Friendfeed, which launched a beta of its redesign today. Personally, I haven't been spending that much time on Friendfeed lately, even though I like the concept, which is to aggregate all of a user's social media...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Monday's Media Grab Bag
- Jupiter Research predicts that 25 percent of the world's population, or 1.8 billion people, will be online within the next four years. The hottest growth markets are China, India, Brazil and Russia. Friendfeed has quickly arisen to challenge Twitter by exploiting a glitch whereby the "reply" feature...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Google Social Search Arrives to Surface Content From Twitter, FriendFeed, Yelp
- Google launches Google Social Search from Google Labs Oct. 26. The experiment is designed to make search results more relevant by mining the rich Google profile information users provide. This includes all Gmail contacts and Gmail chat buddies, as well and people users are publicly connected to on social sites...
- News items 2009-10-26
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- Facebook Users - Here's What FriendFeed Brings to the Family
- It's going to be a little like the Brady Bunch, this union between Facebook and the just-acquired social networking service FriendFeed. Both families will influence each other a lot, though Facebook is far, far bigger. (The youngest one in curls!) FriendFeed was co-founded by Paul Buchheit, the man who invested...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Is Facebook's FriendFeed acquistion all about talent?
- Surprise! Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a social network feed aggregation start-up. "Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends," FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor said in a statement. "We can't wait to join the team and bring many of the innovations...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Facebook Buys FriendFeed, A Consolation Prize For Failing to Buy Twitter
- Facebook aims to plug in its real-time content gap by buying FriendFeed, a social network aggregator that lets users create custom feeds from content from Facebook, Digg, YouTube and other services. One analyst says FriendFeed is Facebook's consolation prize for failing to buy popular microblog service Twitter. After failing to...
- News items 2009-08-10
- 3 Key Reasons Facebook Bought FriendFeed
- As you probably now know, the world's biggest social networking site, Facebook, just bought the real-time web aggregator, FriendFeed, for an undisclosed sum. While there's no immediate changes being made to either product today, we're likely to see a number of changes at Facebook in the months ahead that...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Breaking: FriendFeed Acquired by Facebook
- Facebook has acquired real-time feed aggregator FriendFeed, Facebook has just announced. The acquisition would be only the second in Facebook's history. Two years ago, the company acquired "web OS" company Parakey in a hire-by-acquisition deal that brought Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt to the company. As part of the deal,...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Facebook Acquires Not-Twitter, Oops, FriendFeed (Plus the Full Press Release) [BoomTown]
- Facebook said today it is acquiring FriendFeed, the online content sharing site. It is a logical fit for the huge social networking site, which has lagged behind microblogging kingpin, Twitter, in the real-time news, search and status game of perception in Silicon Valley. FriendFeed has also lagged behind Twitter, despite...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Facebook Feast: First FriendFeed, Then Improved Facebook Search
- Facebook finally launches its new and improved search service, allowing users to find status updates, links and notes of any user who has opted to make their content available to everyone, up to the last 30 days. The move comes hours after Facebook bought FriendFeed, which provides real-time search. In...
- News items 2009-08-11
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