Friendfeed Acquired by Facebook

Friendfeed which is growing a lot after latest design and few of its amazing features like Real time news update, has been acquired by Facebook.

In an official announcement friendfeed added :

The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We’ve always been great admirers of Facebook, and our companies share a common vision. Now we have the opportunity to bring many of the innovations we’ve developed at FriendFeed to Facebook’s 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook’s passionate engineers to create even more ways for you to easily share with your friends online.

Later on in a press release Facebook team added :

PALO ALTO, CALIF.”August 10, 2009”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.

As we spent time with Mark and his leadership team, we were impressed by the open, creative culture they’ve built and their desire to have us contribute to it, said Paul Buchheit, another FriendFeed co-founder. Buchheit, the Google engineer behind Gmail and the originator of Google’s Don’t be evil motto, added, It was immediately obvious to us how passionate Facebook’s engineers are about creating simple, ground-breaking ways for people to share, and we are extremely excited to join such a like-minded group.

Taylor and Buchheit founded FriendFeed along with Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh in October 2007 after all four played key roles at Google for products like Gmail and Google Maps. At FriendFeed, they’ve brought together a world-class team of engineers and designers.

Since I first tried FriendFeed, I’ve admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information, said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use.

FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product.

Though what changes we can expect after the acquisition is still undecided, though since facebook acquired Friendfeed we can expect lots of new features in Friendfeed or real time search into Facebook.

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