Facebook Buys FriendFeed
August 10, 2009 by Jeff Parsons
Facebook announced today that they are acquiring the social network aggregator FriendFeed.
“Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends,” said Bret Taylor, FriendFeed co-founder. “We can’t wait to join the team and bring many of the innovations we’ve developed at FriendFeed to Facebook’s 250 million users around the world.”
Is it just me or don’t a lot of those innovations that FriendFeed developed already exist in Facebook? Ever since Facebook was unable to acquire Twitter they have continued to make their service more and more like everyone else.
Many Twitter users are also users of FriendFeed, if for nothing more than another place to dump their Tweets for others to see.
Will it be business as usual for FriendFeed? No one seems to really know.
Taylor said in a post on the FriendFeed blog that “FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We’re still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team.”
Time will tell, but Facebook’s move could spell the end of FriendFeed as we know it.
