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Enable Facebook Comments on your Custom Domain - The Official Posterous Posterous
This is a pretty big step. As far as I know it's the first service to allow cross commenting between Facebook and blogs. I don't even think Disqus lets you do that yet.
How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg
A great intro to FBML, Facebook's mark up language for Facebook Pages.
The Cost Of FriendFeed: Roughly $50 Million In Cash And Stock
Everyone is obviously talking about the Facebook/FriendFeed deal, but everyone wants to know one key detail: How much did Facebook pay? Now we know: Facebook paid nearly $50 million when you add the $15 million it paid in cash with roughly $32.5 million (based on current valuations) in stock, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Facebook Acquires Social Veterans in FriendFeed Deal « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
Facebook makes a play and acquires Friendfeed, a sharing and aggregation tool that helps people find out what their friends are doing. Read Friendfeed’s announcement, and Facebook’s blog post.
A few months ago the Facebook and Twitter deal fell apart, and Facebook knows it must open its community to the open web –not just behind a login in order to benefit from generating revenues through advertising and search advertising.
FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request
What does this mean for my FriendFeed account?
FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team. As usual, we will communicate openly about our plans as they develop — keep an eye on the FriendFeed News group for updates.
louisgray.com: Hi Facebook, It's Me, FriendFeed. This Relationship? It's Complicated.
So what's happening to this Valley? Is it as dire a situation as it sometimes seems? Are we really going to end up with four mega-companies: FaceBook, Google, Microsoft and Apple? Because if Google or Microsoft can weasel their way into acquiring Twitter, that's sure how it will seem. If the IPO market continues to be closed, and innovative companies can only knock on doors 1 through 4, that's not a good thing.
Facebook Buys Sharing Service FriendFeed | paidContent
Facebook has purchased social sharing service FriendFeed. Financial terms of the deal were not released, although FriendFeed had raised just over $5 million in venture funding.
Facebook has hinted in the past that it was interested in making an acquisition. In raising $200 million from Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies in late May, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the new cash opened the possibility of “strategic options.” And Facebook also reportedly made a bid for Twitter last fall.
Facebook Just Bought FriendFeed
Earlier today, rumors started to appear that FriendFeed had been acquired by Facebook. We now have confirmation that this is indeed true. Neither Facebook nor FriendFeed released any exact details about the acquisition, but we'll keep this story updated as we learn more details about this acquisition. According to a post by Bret Taylor on the FriendFeed blog, FriendFeed will continue to operate normally for the time being while the two companies figure out the long-term plans.
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Updated)
Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now.
At this point details on the acquisition are still very sparse, but it’s clearly a good match. Over the last year or so, Facebook has “borrowed” quite a few of features that FriendFeed popularized, including the ‘Like’ feature and an emphasis on real-time news updates.
Friendfeed Should Become Facebook Labs - The Steve Rubel Lifestream
Facebook just got bought...
* the best social search platform on the web, hands down
* a site that has captured the heart and soul of many (not all) geeks, something they need to do to stay in the vanguard
* an incredibly smart, talented team that will bring rapid innovation to Facebook and make it even stronger
First Interview After Acquisition With FriendFeed And Facebook
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.
5 Tips for Optimizing Your Brand’s Facebook Presence
Great advice. Facebook pages will become a must have for all brands (some may argue that they already are).
Facebook Mystery: Who Created “25 Random Things About Me”? - Digits - WSJ.com
Duh: "if nothing else, the “25 Random Things” phenomenon just reiterates that users really, really like sharing and spreading information about themselves online, no matter how personal or vulgar or trite."
Networking site cashes in on friends - Telegraph
I think this is a very interesting move by Facebook. Access to a social networks data and users for market research is obvious IMO and probably a really good move. It makes me wonder about what the future of marketing will be. Will all social networks turn into marketing and research companies?
Status Updates Are Not Conversation | Regular Geek
A very thought provoking piece that deserves a much longer response. There's a lot that I agree with here, but there's also a lot I disagree with.
Facebook + CNN = Future of TV « NewTeeVee
I think the next 2 years are only going to accelerate television innovation. The inauguration was just the tip of the iceberg.
Facebook to Copy FriendFeed's "Like"? [Video]
Has Facebook really ever innovated anything successful, or do they just copy everyone else's functionality? I guess that's another reason why Microsoft was such a good partner for them.
Using Social Networking Sites For Internal Communications - Marketing Impressions
My most recent post on Marketing Impressions where I share an example of how Facebook is being used for *internal* employee communication.
Nexus Graphs Your Facebook Friends and More - ReadWriteWeb
This is the piece I think is still missing from Web 2.0: Visualization. I think apps that "show you" who your connections are and what that actually means in the business world will add huge value to companies and aid in corporate adoption.
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