FriendFeed Rips Off Facebook Newsfeed
Posted by Nick O'Neill on October 1st, 2007 12:50 PM
A new service called FriendFeed takes all of the features from the Facebook newsfeed and opens it up to the web. This is honestly set up for a quick acquisition by Google; somewhat coincidental given that the founders are ex-Google Maps developers. FriendFeed does everything that Facebook does but across the entire web. If your friend shares a RSS feed item, scrobbles a track on Last.fm, tweets on Twitter, posts a video to YouTube, stumbles upon a new website, adds a movie to their Netflix queue, uploads a picture to Picasa or Flickr or one of a number of other actions on any of the 23 services currently supported, you will be notified.
Given that Google is preparing to open up the social component of the web and attempt to own the social backbone (as I discussed yesterday), this is going to be a quick acquisition. Honestly, with the addition of FriendFeed to their arsenal, Google is going to have a serious chance of taking on Facebook. If you want to learn more about FriendFeed, read the New York Times article on it or check out the FriendFeed website. Do you think an acquisition by Google will help them to rival Facebook?
October 1st, 2007 at 4:10 pm
“Do you think an acquisition by Google will help them to rival Facebook?”
Nick, The way this is worded is not correct. The way you have worded this, it’s asking if a Google acquisition occurs, will FriendFeed be competing with Facebook. (At least that’s the way I read it, but then, I’ve been out of school for a looong time!)
October 1st, 2007 at 5:45 pm
We’ll have to see, but with the social overlay that Google is putting into place on its other services, this might just do the trick.
My question is, how is FriendFeed different from Tumblr?