FriendFeed Gets $5 Million for Social Media-sharing Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 26, 2008 - 7:19am.

Mountain View, Calif. - FriendFeed, the developer of a social media platform that lets users keep up with what Web pages, photos, videos and music their friends and family are sharing, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $5 million in its first round of financing, from Benchmark Capital and company co-founders Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company launched its service in beta late last year, and made FriendFeed publicly available today.

The service, which creates a customized feed of content that friends are sharing, currently supports over 25 Web services, including Flickr, YouTube and Yelp.

 

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