Webb

Facebook köper FriendFeed *uppdaterad*

Alldeles nyss blev det klart att den populära nätverkssajten Facebook köper aggregerings-sajten FriendFeed, en tjänst där användare kan samla information från bloggar, nätverkssajter, RSS-flöden och annat för att ha allt på en och samma plats.

Jag har själv kört FriendFeed en del och kan inte direkt påstå att jag är super-imponerad av tjänsten men kanske det kan bli ändring på det nu när Facebook kommer in i bilden. Jag antar att det handlar om att lyfta över en del tänk och teknik från FriendFeed till Facebook-plattformen.

Exakt vad Facebook har betalat för FriendFeed finns för tillfället inga uppgifter om.

FriendFeed skriver själva på sin blogg bland annat det här.
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 share with your friends online.

Man nämner också att FriendFeed.com tills vidare kommer att fungera som nu och lika så dess API (det externa programmerings-gränssnittet). Vi återkommer antagligen när vi får lite mer konkreta siffror på den här affären.

Uppdaterat
Facebook släppte precis en pressrelease som bekräftar uppgifterna ovan. Ni kan läsa den i sin fullständighet under "Läs mer". Fortfarande har inget nämnts om det eventuella priset.

Uppdaterat 2
Wall Street Journal skriver här att Facebook betalat närmare 50 miljoner dollar för FriendFeed där cirka 15 miljoner betalas i kontanter och återstoden i Facebook-aktier.
www.reuters.com +

Läs mer...

PALO ALTO, CALIF.?August 10, 2009?Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed?s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook?s engineering and product teams.

?Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends,? said Bret Taylor, a FriendFeed co-founder and, previously, the group product manager who launched Google Maps. ?We can?t wait to join the team and bring many of the innovations we?ve developed at FriendFeed to Facebook?s 250 million users around the world.?

?As we spent time with Mark and his leadership team, we were impressed by the open, creative culture they?ve built and their desire to have us contribute to it,? said Paul Buchheit, another FriendFeed co-founder. Buchheit, the Google engineer behind Gmail and the originator of Google?s ?Don?t be evil? motto, added, ?It was immediately obvious to us how passionate Facebook?s engineers are about creating simple, ground-breaking ways for people to share, and we are extremely excited to join such a like-minded group.?

Taylor and Buchheit founded FriendFeed along with Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh in October 2007 after all four played key roles at Google for products like Gmail and Google Maps. At FriendFeed, they?ve brought together a world-class team of engineers and designers.

?Since I first tried FriendFeed, I?ve admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information,? said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. ?As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use.?

FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product.

Financial terms of the acquisition were not released.