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FriendFeed
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FriendFeed is a real-time feed aggregator that FriendFeed
consolidates the updates from social media and social
networking websites, social bookmarking websites,
blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any
other type of RSS/ Atom feed.[2] It is possible to use
URL friendfeed.com
this stream of information to create customized feeds
to share, as well as originate new posts-discussions, Type of site Social aggregator
(and comment) with friends.[3]
Available English, Persian, German, Spanish,
The goal of FriendFeed according to their website is language(s) French, Japanese, Russian,
to make content on the Web more relevant and useful Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Italian
by using existing social networks as a tool for
Owner Facebook Inc.
discovering interesting information. Users can be an
individual, business or organization. Bloggers writing Created by Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul
about FriendFeed have said that this service Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh
addresses the shortcomings of social media services
which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own Launched October 2007
members' social media activities on that particular
Alexa rank 735[1]
social media service, whereas FriendFeed provides
the facility to track these activities (such as posting Current Online
on blogs, Twitter and Flickr) across a broad range of status
different social networks.[4] Some bloggers are
concerned about readers commenting on their posts
inside FriendFeed instead of on their blogs, resulting in fewer page views for the blogger.[5]
The founders are all former Google Inc. employees who were involved in the launch of services such as
Gmail and Google Maps. They include Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh and Bret Taylor.
Venture capital agency Benchmark Capital is involved with the investment funding.
FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, California and had on average one million monthly visitors.
Employees of FriendFeed created the Simple Update Protocol to reduce the load put on sites by
aggregators such as theirs.
On August 10, 2009, Facebook Inc. agreed to acquire FriendFeed.[6] FriendFeed was bought for $15
million in cash, and $32.5 million in Facebook stock.[7]
Supported services
A user can configure their FriendFeed account to aggregate content from the following services:
Blogging Books Status Video Miscellaneous
Ameba Goodreads Brightkite 12seconds Custom RSS/Atom
Baidu Space LibraryThing Facebook Dailymotion [citation needed]
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- 1. FriendFeed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 2 FriendFeed From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia FriendFeed is a real-time feed aggregator that FriendFeed consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS/ Atom feed.[2] It is possible to use URL friendfeed.com this stream of information to create customized feeds to share, as well as originate new posts-discussions, Type of site Social aggregator (and comment) with friends.[3] Available English, Persian, German, Spanish, The goal of FriendFeed according to their website is language(s) French, Japanese, Russian, to make content on the Web more relevant and useful Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Italian by using existing social networks as a tool for Owner Facebook Inc. discovering interesting information. Users can be an individual, business or organization. Bloggers writing Created by Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul about FriendFeed have said that this service Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh addresses the shortcomings of social media services which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own Launched October 2007 members' social media activities on that particular Alexa rank 735[1] social media service, whereas FriendFeed provides the facility to track these activities (such as posting Current Online on blogs, Twitter and Flickr) across a broad range of status different social networks.[4] Some bloggers are concerned about readers commenting on their posts inside FriendFeed instead of on their blogs, resulting in fewer page views for the blogger.[5] The founders are all former Google Inc. employees who were involved in the launch of services such as Gmail and Google Maps. They include Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh and Bret Taylor. Venture capital agency Benchmark Capital is involved with the investment funding. FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, California and had on average one million monthly visitors. Employees of FriendFeed created the Simple Update Protocol to reduce the load put on sites by aggregators such as theirs. On August 10, 2009, Facebook Inc. agreed to acquire FriendFeed.[6] FriendFeed was bought for $15 million in cash, and $32.5 million in Facebook stock.[7] Supported services A user can configure their FriendFeed account to aggregate content from the following services: Blogging Books Status Video Miscellaneous Ameba Goodreads Brightkite 12seconds Custom RSS/Atom Baidu Space LibraryThing Facebook Dailymotion [citation needed] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed 10/27/2011
- 2. FriendFeed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 2 of 2 Blogger Gmail/Google Joost Amazon.com Tumblr News Talk Seesmic LinkedIn LiveJournal identi.ca Smotri Netflix Skyrock Digg Plurk Vimeo Netvibes Google Twitter YouTube Polyvore Bookmarking Reader Picasa SlideShare Meneame Music tipjoy Delicious Mixx Comments Upcoming Diigo Reddit iLike Wakoopa Furl Last.fm Backtype Yelp Hatena Photos Pandora Disqus Ma.gnolia Intense Mister Wong Flickr Debate StumbleUpon Fotolog Twine Photobucket Google Picasa Bookmarks SmugMug Zooomr References 1. ^ "friendfeed.com - Traffic Details from Alexa". Alexa Internet, Inc. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/friendfeed.com. Retrieved 2009-10-17. 2. ^ "FriendFeed FAQ". http://friendfeed.com/about/help. Retrieved 3 July 2011. 3. ^ "AT&T and Verizon Wireless Offer New Services for Friends" September 9th, 2008 New York Times, retrieved September 11th, 2008 4. ^ FriendFeed launch cover on VentureBeat, October 1, 2007 5. ^ "Just How Much is the Conversation Worth?" CenterNetworks.com, July 3, 2008 6. ^ http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=116581 Facebook Press Release 7. ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-cost-of-friendfeed-roughly-50-million-in-cash-and-stock/ Techcrunch Sale Price External links FriendFeed FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why? Friendfeed.com raises $5m VC FriendFeed: All The Numbers That Matter (infographic) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed 10/27/2011
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