Posted by Jeremy Scott in Internet, Tech News | 0 Comments
Facebook & FriendFeed Are BFF’s Forever
I don’t think we can call ourselves a technology blog if we fail to mention the recent purchase of FriendFeed by Facebook, even though every tech blog and his brother has already covered the story. I’m certainly not breaking any news here, but we have some readers who probably haven’t stumbled upon this news just yet. Thought we’d give our two cents.
FriendFeed is a lot like Twitter, allowing users to share content and information across multiple platforms. It has far fewer users than Twitter, but is run by some ex-Google engineers. This is clearly another bold step by Facebook to compete with Twitter.
What Twitter does that has Facebook so scared is the real-time update/sharing feature. FriendFeed will help them match the technology for real-time updating. In fact, Facebook has already activated a new “real-time search” function just in the past 24 hours.
The price of the purchase is rumored to be around $50 Million in cash and stock.
Look for Facebook to roll the FriendFeed guys in with their existing real-time efforts to create something that not only matches Twitter’s capabilities and popularity, but aims to exceed them as well.
