FriendFeed

Infobox Website
name = FriendFeed
type = Social aggregator



caption = FriendFeed logo
url = [http://friendfeed.com/ friendfeed.com]
commercial = Yes
owner = FriendFeed Inc.
author = Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh
language = English
current status = Online
launch date = February 2008

FriendFeed is a social aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites such as blog entries, social bookmarking websites, and micro-blogging updates. Users are able to use this consolidated stream of information to create customized feeds to share with friends. [ [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/att-and-verizon-wireless-offer-new-services-for-friends/ "AT&T and Verizon Wireless Offer New Services for Friends"] September 9th, 2008 New York Times, retrieved September 11th, 2008]

Bloggers writing about FriendFeed have said that this service addresses the shortcomings of social media services which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own members' social media activities on that particular social media service, whereas FriendFeed provides the facility to track these activities (such as posting on blogs, Twitter and Flickr) across a broad range of different social networks.fact|date=June 2008 They have also said that they are concerned about people commenting on their posts inside FriendFeed instead of on their blogs.fact|date=June 2008

The founders are all former Google employees who were involved in the launch of such services as Gmail and Google Maps. They include Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh and Bret Taylor. Venture Capital agency Benchmark Capital is involved with the investment funding.

FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, California.

upported services

A user can configure his or her FriendFeed account to aggregate content from the following services:

References

External links

* [http://friendfeed.com/ FriendFeed]
* [http://www.cagedether.com/2008/08/04/friendfeed-explained/ Friendfeed explained]
* [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/14/friendfeed-is-this-years-twitter-but-why/ FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why?]
* [http://www.indusbusinessjournal.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=8B91C64FDD134A72A97A61AC49AE688B Friendfeed.com raises $5m VC]
* [http://www.crunchbase.com/company/friendfeed CrunchBase on FriendFeed]