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Gerrit Eicker 07:19 on 11. August 2009 Permalink
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  Gerrit Eicker 07:39 on 11. August 2009 Permalink | Reply

  WSJ: “Facebook Inc. said it has acquired FriendFeed, a start-up that allows users to share links and status updates online, folding in a potential rival that struggled to take off. – Facebook paid nearly $50 million for the company, in a combination cash and stock offer, according to people familiar with the matter.”

  TC: “This acquisition is a very smart move by Facebook to bolster its product, especially as it relates to the real-time web. One thing it does not do however, is make Facebook simpler. I’d still argue that Twitter has an inherent advantage over Facebook because it is so much simpler to use, resulting in a much lower barrier to entry. But naturally, with the complication comes a lot more data, and data is ultimately be the key for a larger battle for the web, so it’s a trade-off. – Where this leaves FriendFeed as a service is still up in the air. The team has said FriendFeed will continue to run as-is for the time being, but made no promises about the future. Cox’s comments seem to indicate that FriendFeed will be a sort of farm system for the big league Facebook, which I’m sure will piss off plenty of FriendFeed devotees.”

  AdAge: “Hopefully, through the FriendFeed acquisition, Facebook will make it easier to search these updates. It’s hard enough to search for anything on Facebook, though the network has indicated that it plans to focus more on that experience. Now imagine if on Facebook you could search what consumers are publicly sharing anywhere; that search functionality would make Twitter Search seem like a kid’s plaything.”

  NYT: “It’s a logical fit for Facebook, which has slowly been shifting its focus to becoming more of a real-time social broadcasting service. – But the bigger win for Facebook may be the technical talent that comes with the deal: FriendFeed’s founders were involved in the creation of Google’s Gmail service.”

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  Facebook vs. Twitter « Wir sprechen Online. 07:41 on 17. August 2009 Permalink | Reply

  […] Search (2), Twitter (246), Web (1,366) Mashable asks: Who Will Win in Real-time Search? Facebook or Twitter? http://bit.ly/AFr4Z […]

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  Tornado « Wir sprechen Online. 07:58 on 11. September 2009 Permalink | Reply

  […] Web (1,450) Facebook open sourced Tornado, a real-time web framework for Python, developed by FriendFeed; http://j.mp/2XZHl2 […]

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  Facebook Neuigkeiten « Wir sprechen Online. 10:14 on 14. June 2011 Permalink | Reply

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