{"id":6235,"date":"2012-04-09T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6235"},"modified":"2012-04-09T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T21:47:51","slug":"deja-vu-for-friendfeed-fans-as-facebook-buys-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/deja-vu-for-friendfeed-fans-as-facebook-buys-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Deja Vu for Friendfeed fans as Facebook buys Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bret Taylor on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.friendfeed.com\/2009\/08\/friendfeed-accepts-facebook-friend.html\">Friendfeed&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are happy to announce that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We&#8217;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&#8217;ve developed at FriendFeed to Facebook&#8217;s 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook&#8217;s passionate engineers to create even more ways for you to easily share with your friends online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/\">FriendFeed.com<\/a>\u00a0will continue to operate normally. We&#8217;re still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bret Taylor on\u00a0Friendfeed&#8217;s blog. We are happy to announce that\u00a0Facebook\u00a0has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle&#8230; The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We&#8217;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&#8217;ve developed at FriendFeed to Facebook&#8217;s 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook&#8217;s passionate engineers to create even more ways for you to easily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[53,25,52],"tags":[164,143,3601],"class_list":["post-6235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-link-log","category-web-2point0","tag-facebook","tag-friendfeed","tag-instagram","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1Cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}