Facebook Acquires Friendfeed

Today, August 10th, Facebook announced that it had finalized a deal to acquire Friendfeed. Friendfeed is a real time news aggrigator for social media and networking sites, which was founded by former Google employees who were responsible for creating Gmail and Google maps. According to the release, “all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.” On its blog, Friendfeed indicated that it would continue to operate normally for the time being and that long-term plans with Facebook had not been finalized.