FriendFeed
Type of site | Social aggregator |
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Available in | Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish |
Dissolved | April 9, 2015 |
Owner | Meta Platforms |
Launched | October 2, 2007 |
Current status | Offline |
FriendFeed was a real-time
The goal of FriendFeed according to their website was to make content on the Web more relevant and useful by using existing social networks as a tool for discovering interesting information. Users could be an individual, business or organization. Bloggers writing about FriendFeed 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 provided the facility to track these activities (such as posting on
The founders were all former
FriendFeed was based in Mountain View, California, and had on average one million monthly visitors. Employees of FriendFeed created the Simple Update Protocol to reduce the load put on sites by aggregators such as theirs.
On August 10, 2009,
Supported services
A user could configure their FriendFeed account to aggregate content from the following services:
Blogging Bookmarking
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Books News Photos |
Status Music |
Video Comments |
Miscellaneous |
References
- ^ "FriendFeed FAQ". Archived from the original on 5 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- ^ "AT&T and Verizon Wireless Offer New Services for Friends" Archived 2008-09-13 at the Wayback Machine September 9th, 2008 New York Times, retrieved September 11th, 2008
- ^ a b "Dear FriendFeed community, We wanted to let you know that FriendFeed will be shutting down soon]]". Archived from the original on 2015-03-10. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
- ^ "FriendFeed launch cover on VentureBeat, October 1, 2007". Venturebeat.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
- ^ "Just How Much is the Conversation Worth?" Archived 2008-09-08 at the Wayback Machine CenterNetworks.com, July 3, 2008
- ^ "Facebook Press Release". Facebook.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-01. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
- ^ MG Siegler (@parislemon) (2009-08-10). "Techcrunch Sale Price". Techcrunch.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
- ^ Feeds, Tweet (2009-02-10). "Adding an RSS/Atom feed to FriendFeed". Friendfeedhelp.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-25.