First Interview After Acquisition With FriendFeed And Facebook - The Diigo Meta page

• 18 Aug 09
  

  Patrick O'Keefe
  • Friendfeed cofounder Bret Taylor
  • one source that, like the 2007 Parakey acquisition, the deal is largely a talent acquisition by Facebook, and less about the Friendfeed product. Friendfeed has 12 employees, and all but one are engineers
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  • • Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook
    • “The basic idea is that Facebook doesn’t want to disrupt the product…they’ll take a lot of ideas that work well on Friendfeed and see how they apply to Facebook, and over time they’ll look at how to integrate the products.”
• 15 Aug 09
  

  Stanislas Jourdan

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• 12 Aug 09
  

  Mostafa Lameei
  • Friendfeed has 12 employees, and all but one are engineers.
  • But Facebook is clearly excited about Friendfeed’s ability to innovate and launch new products. Taylor said “The basic idea is that Facebook doesn’t want to disrupt the product…they’ll take a lot of ideas that work well on Friendfeed and see how they apply to Facebook, and over time they’ll look at how to integrate the products.”
• 11 Aug 09
  

  Alexandre Enkerli
• 10 Aug 09
  

  Tac Anderson

  Details on the Facebook acquisition of Friendfeed story that we broke earlier today are still coming in. But we had a chance to talk with Friendfeed cofounder Bret Taylor (pictured right) and Facebook VP Products Chris Cox a few minutes ago to discuss the deal and the product integration plans going forward.

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