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Facebook Acquires Social Media Service FriendFeed

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 10, 2009 - 10:18am.
Palo Alto, Calif. - Online social network Facebook announced on Monday that it will acquire FriendFeed, a social media monitoring service, for an undisclosed sum. "Since I first tried FriendFeed, I've admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information," said Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

FriendFeed Adds Ability to Share MP3s, Other Files

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 25, 2009 - 12:35pm.
Mountain View, Calif. - FriendFeed, a social content-sharing platform, has added the ability for users to share files with one another, including MP3 and PDF formats. The service previously allowed only photo file formats to be directly shared into a user's feed. Uploads for audio files are limited to three per day, and may either be downloaded or streamed from FriendFeed servers. The company told TechCrunch it would deal with copyright issues by removing files per the request of the copyright holder.

Facebook Begins Rolling Out New Site Design

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 21, 2008 - 12:54pm.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Online social network Facebook on Monday unveiled the first elements of its website redesign, offering users the opportunity to preview and test new features and functionality before they are made available to all of Facebook's 80 million members over the coming days. In development over the past six months, the redesign includes an integration of all of a user's various feeds in a single stream of updates. TechCrunch noted a "Friendfeedization" of the Facebook home page, a nod to the simpler stream aggregation service Friendfeed.

Social Media Site FriendFeed Launches Developer Platform

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 26, 2008 - 1:55pm.

Mountain View, Calif. - FriendFeed, a service that lets users keep up with what Web pages, photos, videos and music their friends and family are sharing, has announced the release of a developer platform. The FriendFeed API will allow developers to integrate the service into other applications, such as creating a mobile phone interface, or FriendFeed blog widget.

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.

FriendFeed Debuts Social Media Alerts Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 1, 2007 - 12:58pm.

Palo Alto, Calif. - FriendFeed, a social media alerts service founded by four developers involved with Googe's e-mail and mapping services, on Monday announced its launch, The New York Times reported. FriendFeed lets users see what websites their friends are visiting, and also supports 23 other Web services, such as YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Slashdot and Last.fm. The alerts of friends' activities are presented in a streaming feed that can be posted on any Web page. Palo Alto, Calif.-based FriendFeed was incubated at venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.