Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
Facebook has recently announced that it is acquiring Friendfeed, a service that attempts to unify several different social networking services into one. It aggregates news feeds from many different websites, including Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Digg, Flickr, Gmail statuses, Youtube, and much more. The wide variety of supported services is great for many users as it can suit the blogger, the social networker, the news follower, or even the simple email user. This service makes it convenient for those who use multiple social networking sites and constantly have to check multiple feeds to catch up on the news of their friends. Users can also provide feedback to one another (e.g. with comments, "likes," etc.) directly from Friendfeed’s site, throwing away the need to log in and out of many different accounts when communicating with different friends. According to their website, Friendfeed’s goal is to make content on the Web more relevant to their users by using current social networking accounts as a tool for gathering information about their users.
So why would Facebook want to acquire Friendfeed? The answer is that it opens up opportunities for innovations in the social networking industry. The idea of Friendfeed was already novel, and Facebook has noticed some intriguing features that it wanted to incorporate. For example, Facebook has recently launched a new version of its site that mimics Friendfeed’s structure of a central news feed that combines all the stories about a user’s friends. Now that Facebook has finally acquired Friendfeed, the teams from both companies are able to work together and improve the industry with new ideas.
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OvomIpahi, 02/05/2012
Даже Билл Гейтс признает это: «Вы никогда не услышите в Microsoft, чтобы кто-нибудь говорил: „давайте выиграем“ или „мы выиграли“, потому что эти выражения несут в ...
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Юстиниан, 02/05/2012
Если мы можем вести себя только так же, как и другие, мы увидим то же самое, услышим то же самое, наймем тех же самых людей, ...
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Мирра, 02/01/2012
После того, как вы вычеркнули из своего словаря слово «синергия», пожалуйста, вычеркните и «зрелые» рынки, замените его словом «усталые».
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Ефимий, 02/01/2012
Ты — Фанк «Мы сами должны стать теми переменами, которые мы хотим видеть в мире» Махатма Ганди Ходить по магазинам и трахаться
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AbemEnoqu, 02/01/2012
Если Alessi обанкротится, дизайнер Филип Старк, может, и прольет слезу, но очень скоро он снова будет на подиуме.
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