Facebook bought FriendFeed

1. Why Facebook bought
FriendFeed ?
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2. Facebook bought FriendFeed
Facebook has acquired social networking service
FriendFeed, the company announced as $50 million.
This is clearly a move to step up Facebook's
game in its war with Twitter to lead the "real-time"
Web.
FriendFeed never caught on with mainstream
audiences. But its team put together a nice looking
product with smart features -- which sites like
Facebook routinely aped.

3. • Facebook can call on FriendFeed co-founders as
part of its own team. Nearly all of FriendFeed's
employees joined Facebook and FriendFeed's four
founders held "senior roles on Facebook's
engineering and product teams."
• FriendFeed's service continue to operate on its own
for the time being. But it wouldn't be surprising if
Facebook took the best FriendFeed features it
doesn't have already, shuts down the old
FriendFeed.