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Boys Will Be–Especially, in Silicon Valley–Boys: Some Goofy Photos Après FaceFeed

in News on August 10, 2009 at 8:39 pm PT

Yes, that’s Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in shorts, knees and all, in a picture taken right “after signing the papers” to acquire FriendFeed for $50 million. The deal was announced today. One of FriendFeed’s founders, Paul Buchheit, posted them on his account at the online content-sharing site. They look like they were taken at night in someone’s driveway in Silicon Valley (nice fence!).
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Facebook Acquires Not-Twitter, Oops, FriendFeed (Plus the Full Press Release and More)

in News on August 10, 2009 at 12:26 pm PT

Facebook said today it is acquiring FriendFeed, the online content sharing site. It is a logical fit for the social networking site, which has lagged behind microblogging kingpin, Twitter, in the real-time search and status game of perception in Silicon Valley. FriendFeed has also trailed well behind Twitter. Terms were not disclosed, but it is likely be well under the $500 million Facebook once offered Twitter. In fact, sources estimate to me that the price was about $50 million in cash and stock.
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Kara Visits FriendFeed (Now in Six New Languages)!

in News on December 8, 2008 at 6:00 am PT

This morning, FriendFeed, which is a kind of content delivery version of Twitter, went international, launching in six new languages–German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian and simplified Chinese. Now live, the move is a natural extension for the Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up–founded earlier this year by a small gang of ex-Googlers, who joined together to create a service for super-aggregating updates of all kinds for social-networking and news items in an ongoing feed. Here’s a video interview I did last week with Taylor and Buchheit about a range of topics, including–my favorite–monetization, or lack thereof, of a lot of terrific services like FriendFeed and Twitter.