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Nobody has said it, so I guess I'll go ahead -- I don't like to hear this. I use Facebook a lot, but I think Friendfeed is such a great product and that Facebo
by treyp 17y ago
Nobody has said it, so I guess I'll go ahead -- I don't like to hear this.
I use Facebook a lot, but I think Friendfeed is such a great product and that Facebook is such a mature site that nothing good can come of the acquisition.
The absolute best case would be that the Friendfeed talent supremely cleans up the code at Facebook to make it a much faster site, but even that would be at the cost of Friendfeed's development.
- spencerfry 17y agoI disagree that nothing good can come of it. Friendfeed has mastered real-time whereas Facebook still hasn't. Friendfeed can step in and clean up Facebook's news feed and make it a lot better, which I'm sure they're going to be tasked with doing.
- treyp 17y agowhich is why i said "but even that would be at the cost of Friendfeed's development." Friendfeed has already admitted they don't know what will happen to their product long term now. if they disappear, that's one competitor that goes away, which probably will mean slower innovation in social sites in general.
- dbz 17y agoFriend Feed now gets a hold of those 250 million or so users, which is part of the goal- the goal being to make the best possible social network with the most users. Yup, this helps facebook become better, and friendfeed, although it might not exist anymore, gives the developers 250 million users. Sounds alright to me.