Biggest news today for Social media followers is that “Facebook has acquired Friendfeed.”
According to the release, all friendfeed employees will join Facebook team and the founders (ex Googlers) will join at senior positions in Engineering.
For those who don’t know, Friendfeed is a social media aggregator service which aggregates all your online activities (from Blog, twitter, Facebook, Flickr etc.) into one single and simple interface.  So that all your friends on Friendfeed will get to know what you are upto in real time.
Friendfeed has always been ahead of Twitter and Facebook in terms of providing functionalities like Like, Comment and Real time updates etc.  Facebook and even Google Reader have somehow copied its Like features into their platforms.

You can read the full press release here on Facebook… a small excerpt is here..
Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.
“Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends,” said Bret Taylor, a FriendFeed co-founder and, previously, the group product manager who launched Google Maps. “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.”

Hopefully, this acquisition is going to be interesting to watch and see how Facebook changes overtime.


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