Facebook to buy FriendFeed
Social networking site Facebook is buying another webservice called FriendFeed. FriendFeed lets users show feeds from their other social networking sites such as twitter into their friendfeed page and let their friends know what they’re doing.
Bret Taylor, FriendFeed co-founder, said the two services will eventually merge into one service but FriendFeed will operate independently for now.
“Facebook has a really unique opportunity for our team to reach a significant percentage of the world, and that was an opportunity I think everyone on our team was extremely excited about,” he said.
All the employees of FriendFeed will work for FaceBook while the four founders of FriendFeed will take on senior positions on the engineering and product teams of FaceBook.
Chris Cox, FaceBook’s vice-president says:
“I think both companies start with the premise that the most valuable information in the world is the one that comes from the people you care about,” he said. “Building technologies that leverage those relationships everywhere you go is where we’re both starting from.”
Clearly FaceBook wants to compete with other social networking and microblogging sites such as Twitter. They want to combine the services offered by different sites or web services into just one which is FaceBook.
