With Facebook Messages, Has Facebook Reached FriendFeed Nirvana?
There’s no doubt of the FriendFeed team’s influence on Facebook after they were acquired a year ago. Bret Taylor, CEO of FriendFeed is now the CTO of Facebook after all. Even before the acquisition of FriendFeed, Facebook was taking cues from the service, adding “like” buttons to posts, something available on FriendFeed for quite some […]
Read more...The Butterflies are "All Around Us" – My Interview With Paul Buchheit, CoFounder of FriendFeed
I had the opportunity to spend a brief few minutes with Paul Buchheit, co-creator of FriendFeed.com, which was recently acquired by Facebook end of last year. In our interview, I asked Paul where “the Butterfly” was that was mentioned by him shortly after the acquisition (you can read more about that here). Paul seemed much […]
Read more...Speculation: Expect Something BIG in the Area of Real-Time at F8
I don’t do speculative posts like this too often, except around Facebook’s F8 developer events for the most part. The last one I predicted was that Facebook would announce a Mobile Platform at F8 – the announcement did occur along with Facebook Connect. The first F8 was the announcement of the Facebook API, which revolutionized […]
Read more...FriendFeed Turns on the Twitter Firehose (Again)
It seems that some time today, the FriendFeed team has just re-enabled their live Twitter stream (using Twitter’s “Birddog” API) for real-time updates from Twitter. I noticed the update when posting a cool bookmarklet by Kynetx, and re-tested it again – sure enough the update to Twitter hit FriendFeed almost immediately after I posted it […]
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