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Deja Vu for Friendfeed fans as Facebook buys Instagram

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Bret Taylor on Friendfeed’s blog. We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle… The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We’ve always been great admirers of Facebook, and our companies share a common vision. Now we have the opportunity to bring many of the innovations we’ve developed at FriendFeed to Facebook’s 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook’s passionate engineers to create even more ways for you to easily

Independent Tools are the Keys to the Web

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Dave Winer’s posts on using his experiment with Twitter as the basis of a ‘personal Friend Feed’ is an intriguing concept. In short, you grab the RSS feeds of your friends blogs, squish them together, and push that to a Twitter channel (Winer is using FriendsOfDave) to get a little push style feed of your friends content. While you could probably replicate this using a number of online services, I think the beauty of this is that it belongs to Winer – or to anyone who uses this concept, as I fully expect the source code to be released at

Where The Comments Are.. FriendFeed, Doctor Who and Routing Round Obstructions

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I got a comment today on one of the more popular articles on this site, namely the “Tardis Crash” mash-up of the 1963, 2005 and 2007 Doctor Who theme tunes. Except it wasn’t on the site. It was on a link to a Twitter post that was over on FriendFeed. There’s already been discussion (and there will continue to be discussion) about the rights and wrongs of services which lift the content of other sites but keep as much lock-in value as possible. I’d consider FriendFeed keeping the comments on a post on their site, and not relaying it into

In The Online Twitter/FriendFeed Widget War, Only The Users Win

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Perfect – Twhirl (from Seesmic) has decided to add in FriendFeed features, and Alert Thingy (Howard/Baines)has integrated Twitter. Two applciations, looking to be the best, are going to deliver the best possible value… to the user. There’s nothing like an arms race to drive innovation. One of them adds a feature, the other follows, and then adds another edge, which gets replicated and trumped, and so on. Love it! So let’s wind back just a touch to what these bits of software are. They both look at two online web services, Twitter (the short message based group conversation) and FriendFeed