페이스북은 이전에 트위터에 성공적으로 접근하지 못했기 때문에 이제 차선책으로 프렌드피드를 노리고 있습니다.
이번 인수는 FriendFeed을 2억 5천만 명의 페이스북 사용자에게 개방할 것이며, 트위터가 현재 처한 수준으로 도약하기를 기대합니다.
"FriendFeed.com 은 당분간 정상적으로 운영될 것입니다. 우리는 Facebook 팀과 함께 이 제품의 장기적인 계획을 여전히 검토 중입니다."라고 Bret Taylor 는 FriendFeed 블로그에서 밝혔습니다.
이 거래는 현금과 주식으로 약 5,000 만 달러 규모인 것으로 알려졌다. FriendFeed 가 페이스북과 어떻게 통합될지는 아직 알려지지 않았으나, 제 추측으로는 FF 가 FB 상태 메시지 기능을 대체할 가능성이 있다.
@Patrick: Interesting.
More news:
Facebook Not the End: FriendFeed Launches Custom Themes
FriendFeed is now the property of Facebook. The team got a nice $47.5 million payday for its troubles. The team is even moving to Facebook (facebook) headquarters really soon. A lot of people expect the FriendFeed (FriendFeed) site to disappear in the future, so would you really expect FriendFeed to release new features at this stage?
That’s exactly what they’ve done today. The new addition is custom FriendFeed themes, which gives you the ability to change your background and color scheme – exactly what Twitter (Twitter) has offered for a long time. Still, it’s interesting that FriendFeed is chugging along with new features despite the acquisition.
The new themes can be created, added, and adjusted in the settings panel. We’re already seeing some interesting themes being built.
While this feature was almost certainly in the process of being built before the acquisition, it still highlights the commitment the FriendFeed team made to the product after the announcement. Will these new features keep coming? For how long? And will we see any of these new features come to Facebook (would you really want custom themes on Facebook?). These are all questions that’ll be answered soon.
@BungeeJump: The people behind Friendfeed were former Google employees. They were behind some of the most successful Google products like Gmail and AdSense. Also, Facebook had been copying FF’s features for a long time. Facebook needs Friendfeed’s staff.
I don’t care! hahaha! For me its either Twitter or Facebook… I don’t even know Friendfeed (ngayon lang, kasi nabanggit ni Yuga [thanks yuga! ;D]) Too bad Google’s attempt to purchase Facebook and Twitter with their billions of dollars failed… both declined Google’s offer! :( So Google purchased Jaiku instead, which has more features / more powerful than Twitter (according to a blog I read somewhere).. I agree with BungeeJump, Friendfeed needs Facebook than the other way around.. it’s just a waste of money for Facebook. :p
Strange, what is the purpose of the merging? Friendfeed needs Facebook more than Facebook needs Friendfeed. But why would facebook willing to merging with a less populated social site? Changes are, the people of Friendfeed will migrate to Facebook instead and back-firing Friendfeed.
I hope they keep their current Friendfeed site and just integrate it with Facebook. FF’s a really good news aggregator. But I’m also happy for Facebook because they can finally officially “copy” Friendfeed’s features. :P
Twitter could be in trouble now. They should have sold to FB.
This is the first time I heard of FriendFeed! Anyone used this before? What are its highlights?
This is not so bad. At least there would be one less social networking site to manage as two has been combined into one.
i have an account in friendfeed and facebook. I do enjoyed but right now facebook and twitter still the most popular. But who knows someday friend feed will be the most popular. Lets just wait and see.^_^.