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Everyone's favorite social networking site, Facebook, which now boasts over 250 million active users, has some big news today: It has agreed to acquire social network aggregator FriendFeed.
FriendFeed is useful for people who use multiple social networks, as it will combine all actions into one feed. Within FriendFeed, users can communicate with each other and create forum-like "rooms" to discuss things. With over 50 network integrations within FriendFeed, Facebook will gain a tremendous amount of reasons for people to stay within the walled garden that is Facebook. Examples of a FriendFeed account can be found here.
As a side note, Facebook claims that their newest iPhone app version is nearly done. But will the new version include FriendFeed support?
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.”
To-date, FriendFeed has served as an inspiration for many Facebook features (to say the least), adding the ability for users to import activities from third party services like YouTube, Flickr, and Del.icio.us, plus features like commenting and “liking” items in user feeds. However, though much-hyped in early adopter circles, traffic at FriendFeed has remained more or less flat this year, while Facebook and Twitter have exploded in popularity.
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