TechCrunch and Mashable are fast to release the news! Facebook Lite beta is now underway. It is supposedly a lighter and faster version of Facebook. To put it simply, one might say that Lite is used as a direct challenge against Twitter by being like Twitter. With its recent FriendFeed acquisition and launch of real time search function and now Facebook Lite, it is no doubt that Facebook has all these planned out way ahead of time. What could Facebook possibly come out with next? Only a few thousand users are selected to ...
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Oct 1 2009
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Facebook Search Now Real Time
It seems like the first Facebook-FriendFeed product is now out of the oven: As expected, a real time search within Facebook is now available to all users. The new Facebook search works like FriendFeed and Twitter's real time search. It gives you access to all its users' status updates, links, and photos as long as they allow their personal content to be shared. So what avenue will the new search feature open up for Facebook? Will a classification of trending topics be its next feature upgrade? There are probably plenty of questions ...
Aug 28 2009
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Reasons Why Facebook Acquired FriendFeed
Most of us are pretty shaken by the "sudden" news about the marriage between Facebook and FriendFeed released just hours ago. FriendFeed has never been able to match Facebook's popularity with online users; so what exactly did Facebook see in FriendFeed that is worth close to $50 million? 1. A World Class Team This is definitely the key reason why Facebook acquired FriendFeed. FriendFeed has no lack of talent and in fact, has probably the most admired team in the industry. Just imagine what a group of ex Gmail, Google map and Adsense ...
Aug 28 2009
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Breaking: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed for $50 Mil
Facebook has just signed the acquisition 10 hours ago, rocking the social media world. According to Wall Street Journal, Facebook paid close to $50 million to acquire FriendFeed with a combination of $15 million cash and $32.5 million in Facebook stock (according to recent valuation). FriendFeed users are shocked by this sudden release but be rest assured that this agreement was not on impulse. Acquisition talks started back in October 2007, a short 2 weeks after FriendFeed’s launch! We could consider it love at first sight. So what did Facebook see in ...
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