Facebook compra Friendfeed!
Así es, tal como lo anuncia Friendfeed en su blog. Hace ya un tiempo que Facebook está implementando algunas características al estilo Twitter. Digamos que no es casualidad que ahora compre un servicio justamente de lifestreaming para que los usuarios puedan publicar su vida online y compartirla con sus contactos.
Cuáles serán las consecuencias que deriven de esta adquisición, todavía no lo sabemos, pero por lo pronto podemos sacar la conclusión que esta unión representa una gran competencia para Twitter y otro servicios de microblogging y lifestreaming.
Por el lado de Facebook, copio el comunicado de prensa (inglés) publicado el día de ayer con el anuncio de la noticia:
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.
¿Ustedes qué piensan al respecto? ¿Es esto positivo o negativo para el manejo de la reputación online y la protección de nuestros datos personales?
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Facebook empieza a hacerse cada vez mas poderoso… no se donde va a llegar, pero lejos eso seguro. Tb estan preparando una peli sobre facebook y sus creadores…
Si me permitis os cuento que hemos hecho una porra en mi blog sobre la proxima actualizacion del pagerank, con premio y todo!! asi que si quereis participar… ya sabeis!
Un saludo de El Tarao!