Facebook Is On Its Way To Owning You
Earlier this month, when Facebook acquired FriendFeed (an aggregator that consolidates social networking activity) and began testing a "faster, simpler" Facebook 'Lite,' many pundits assumed the site was specifically challenging Twitter for social networking dominance. According to Chadwick Matlin of the Washington Post, though, Facebook is pursuing far more auspicious goals. Matlin theorizes ...
Facebook, not content to simply crush its direct competitors (e.g., MySpace), has snatched up social-network aggregator FriendFeed. FriendFeed gathers your blogs, your Twitter posts, your Flickr photos, your Delicious bookmarks, your Netflix queue -- pretty much anything you can think of -- and puts them all in one place for your friends to read, comment on, and share. The acquisition of ...








