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FriendFeed

Type of site Social aggregator

Available language(s) English, Persian, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Italian

Owner Facebook Inc.

Created by Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh

Launched October 2007

[2] Alexa rank 735

Current status Online

FriendFeed is a real-time feed aggregator that 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. It is possible to use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share, as well as originate new posts-discussions, (and comment) with friends.[3] The goal of FriendFeed according to their website is to make content on the Web more relevant and useful by using existing social network as a tool for discovering interesting information. Users can be an individual, business or organization. Bloggers writing about FriendFeed have said that this service addresses the shortcomings of social media services which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own members' social media activities on that particular social media service, whereas FriendFeed provides the facility to track these activities (such as posting on blogs, Twitter and Flickr) across a broad range of 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] FriendFeed 2

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 • Amazon.com • Blogger News • Gmail/Google Talk • Joost • LinkedIn • Tumblr • identi.ca • Seesmic • Netflix • Digg • LiveJournal • Plurk • Smotri • Netvibes • Google Reader • Skyrock • Twitter • Vimeo • Polyvore • Meneame • YouTube • SlideShare Bookmarking • Mixx Music • tipjoy • Delicious • Reddit • iLike Comments • Upcoming • Diigo • Last.fm • Backtype Photos • Wakoopa • Furl • Pandora • Disqus • Flickr • Yelp • Hatena • Intense Debate • Fotolog • Ma.gnolia • Photobucket • Mister Wong • Picasa • StumbleUpon • SmugMug • Twine • Zooomr

References

[1] http:/ / friendfeed. com/

[2] "friendfeed.com - Traffic Details from Alexa" (http:/ / www. alexa. com/ siteinfo/ friendfeed. com). Alexa Internet, Inc. . Retrieved 2009-10-17.

[3] "AT&T and Verizon Wireless Offer New Services for Friends" (http:/ / bits. blogs. nytimes. com/ 2008/ 09/ 09/

att-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 (http:/ / venturebeat. com/ 2007/ 10/ 01/

friendfeed-a-company-lets-you-see-all-your-friends-feeds/ )

[5] "Just How Much is the Conversation Worth?" (http:/ / www. centernetworks. com/ conversation-monetization) 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 (http:/ / friendfeed. com/ )

• FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why? (http:/ / www. techcrunch. com/ 2008/ 03/ 14/

friendfeed-is-this-years-twitter-but-why/ )

• Friendfeed.com raises $5m VC (http:/ / www. indusbusinessjournal. com/ ME2/ dirmod. asp?sid=& nm=&

type=Publishing& mod=Publications::Article& mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791& tier=4& id=8B91C64FDD134A72A97A61AC49AE688B)

• FriendFeed: All The Numbers That Matter (infographic) (http:/ / www. kawakumi. com/ 2010/ 08/ 02/

friendfeed-all-the-numbers-that-matter-infographics/ ) Article Sources and Contributors 3 Article Sources and Contributors

FriendFeed Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=432390567 Contributors: A.Ward, Ade oshineye, Aeon17x, AloneGarcon, Alteregoz, Avian, Bazonka, Berker.peksag, Bonadea, Brian.Rainbow, Cagedether, Cem live, Chris9086, CyberSkull, D2s, Dreamyshade, Dweekly, Ebraminio, Ericross, Fngosa, FrankTobia, Fukumoto, Grazfather, Gych, Hasantosun, Igorberger, Jaavid, Jake Wasdin, Jhs, Jimcripps, Khatru2, Leki, Liamfahy1, LimeHat, LouCypher, Mark Renier, Mystalic, Nealmcb, Nestea Zen, Nil Einne, O.neill.kid, Ontarioemperor, Philwiki, Rampley, Rat2, Rutja76, Savism, Shashkina, Silverspark, Squids and Chips, Steven Walling, Tanath, Toussaint, Tweetfeeds, Vlad, Voyagerfan5761, Yellowdesk, 51 anonymous edits Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

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