Biz, Tech: FriendFeed and Facebook more than friends, feeling each other up
- What Facebook gets Interesting technology that they can use in future redesigns and upgrades, and – well, let’s not kid ourselves, this is the main reason – access to some really, really bright minds. The founders of FriendFeed are responsible for helping to create Google services you use every single day, like Google Maps and GMail. They’re worth it.
- What FriendFeed gets Exposure. FriendFeed’s root idea – the combining of social streams into a single feed – is a good idea that didn’t have the PR manpower of Twitter or Facebook. Facebook could push the service really hard. Or this could go down like Geocities and Facebook could drive it into the ground. We’re betting the latter.
- Our feelingThis merger makes a lot of sense. Facebook has been mimicking FriendFeed’s best features for ages, even moreso since the last redesign. And we’ve had a link to our FriendFeed on the site for months to basically no response – which tells us that unless you’re Robert Scoble (or know who Robert Scoble is), you don’t use it. source
