FriendFeed
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| URL | friendfeed.com |
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| Type of site | Social aggregator |
| Available language(s) | English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Italian |
| Owner | FriendFeed Inc. |
| Created by | Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh |
| Launched | October 2007 |
| Current status | Online |
FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS/ Atom feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends.[1] The goal of FriendFeed according to their website is to make content on the Web more relevant and useful for you by using your existing social network as a tool for discovering interesting information. Users can be an individual, business or organization. Bloggers writing about FriendFeed have said that this service addresses the shortcomings of social media services which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own members' social media activities on that particular social media service, whereas FriendFeed provides the facility to track these activities (such as posting on blogs, Twitter and Flickr) across a broad range of different social networks.[2] Some (but not all) bloggers are concerned about readers commenting on their posts inside FriendFeed instead of on their blogs, resulting in fewer page views for the blogger[3].
The founders are all former Google employees who were involved in the launch of such services as Gmail and Google Maps. They include Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh and Bret Taylor. Venture capital agency Benchmark Capital is involved with the investment funding.
FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, California.
[edit] Supported services
A user can configure their FriendFeed account to aggregate content from the following services:
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Blogging Bookmarking |
Books News Photos |
Status Music |
Video Comments |
Miscellaneous |
[edit] References
- ^ "AT&T and Verizon Wireless Offer New Services for Friends" September 9th, 2008 New York Times, retrieved September 11th, 2008
- ^ FriendFeed launch cover on VentureBeat, October 1, 2007
- ^ "Just How Much is the Conversation Worth?" CenterNetworks.com, July 3, 2008
[edit] External links
- FriendFeed
- FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why?
- Friendfeed.com raises $5m VC
- CrunchBase on FriendFeed
