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Facebook buy FriendFeed

Written by Laurel Papworth in Social Media,Uncategorised

Interesting news this morning… (computerworld)

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Facebook may become social network hub with FriendFeed buy

Facebook agrees to acquire feed aggregator founded by ex-Google managers

Mountain View, Calif-based FriendFeed’s 12 employees will move to Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters and will continue to operate the service as usual until the companies decide on a long-term integration plan, according to the companies.

“Since I first tried FriendFeed, I’ve admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, in a statement. “As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use.”

… worlds collide?

Laurel Papworth

Named by Forbes™ Magazine in the Top 50 Social Media Influencers globally, named Head of Industry, Social Media (Marketing Magazine™) and in the Power150 Media bloggers (AdAge™). CERT IV Training and Assessment certified trainer (Diplomas and Certificates etc) Adult Education. Laurel has manager Facebook Pages for Junior Masterchef, Idol, Big Brother etc. and have consulted on private online communities for banks Westpac, not for profits UNHCR & governments in SE Asia. Lecturer, social media, University of Sydney for 10 years and Laurel has 11,000 online students. Laurel Papworth personally connects to 6 million followers online and has taught around 100,000 people in the last 10 years how to be social media managers.

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